Issy-les-Moulineaux

Issy-les-Moulineaux
Val de Seine business district
Paris and inner ring départements
Location within Île-de-France region  Issy-les-Moulineaux
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Boulogne-Billancourt
Intercommunality	Arc de Seine
Mayor	André Santini (NC)
Statistics
Elevation	28–96 m (92–315 ft)
Land area1	4.25 km2 (1.64 sq mi)
Population2	63,297  (2008)
- Density	14,893 /km2 (38,570 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	92040/ 92130
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Issy-les-Moulineaux (French pronunciation: ​[i.si le mu.li.no]) is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France. It is located 6.6 km (4.1 mi) from the centre of Paris. On 1 January 2003, Issy-les-Moulineaux became part of the Communauté d'agglomération Arc de Seine along with the other communes of Chaville, Meudon, Vanves and Ville-d'Avray.

Issy-les-Moulineaux has successfully moved its economy from an old manufacturing base to high value-added service sectors and is now located at the heart of the Val de Seine business district, the largest cluster of telecommunication and media businesses in France hosting the headquarters of most major French TV networks.

Name

Originally, Issy-les-Moulineaux was simply called Issy. The name Issy comes from Medieval Latin Issiacum or Isciacum, perhaps meaning "estate of Isicius (or Iccius)", a Gallo-Roman landowner, although some think the name comes from a Celtic radical meaning "under the wood".

In 1893 Issy officially became Issy-les-Moulineaux. Les Moulineaux was the name of a hamlet on the territory of the commune, apparently named Les Moulineaux due to the windmills (French: moulins) that stood there in ancient times.

The town was once the location of the Château d'Issy, home of the Princes of Conti.

History

On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occasion, about a third of the commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux was annexed to Paris, and forms now the neighborhood of Javel, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

It hosted the beginning of the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race and its disaster, which killed the French Minster of War, and it hosted the trap shooting events for the 1924 Summer Olympics.

The firm of Appareils d'Aviation Les Freres Voisin, the world's first commercial airplane factory (1908) which was initially located in Boulogne-Billancourt,^{[citation needed]} transformed itself into a luxury automobile manufacturing company named Avions Voisin in 1920. Most of Voisin's manufacturing facilities were then relocated in neighboring Issy-les-Moulineaux. Avions Voisin closed its doors in 1940.

Demographics

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France 82.5% 17.5% Born in Overseas France Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants 1.3% 3.6% 3.7% 8.9% ¹This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. ²An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Administration

Issy is divided into two cantons (districts):

• Issy-les-Moulineaux East, part of the commune; pop: 25,399
• Issy-les-Moulineaux West, part of the commune and part of Meudon; (pop: 34,120)

Mayors of Issy-les-Moulineaux:

• 1903–1908: Auguste Gervais
• 1908–1911: Henri Mayer
• 1911–1919: Léon-Victor Clément
• 1919–1922: Justin Oudin
• February – May 1923: Saint-Martin (Special delegation)
• May – October 1923: Eugène Demarne
• 1923–1935: Justin Oudin
• 1935–1939: Victor Cresson
• 1945–1949: Fernand Maillet
• 1949–1953: Jacques Madaule
• May – July 1953: Fernand Maillet
• 1953–1973: Bonaventure Leca
• 1973–1980: Raymond Menand
• 1980 – present: André Santini

Economy

The Canal+ Group, Coca-Cola France, France 24, Microsoft France and Europe, Sodexo, and Technicolor SA are based in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Transport

Issy-les-Moulineaux is served by two stations on Paris Métro line 12: Corentin Celton and Mairie d'Issy, two stations on Paris RER line C: Issy – Val de Seine and Issy and three stations on Île-de-France tramway Line 2: Les Moulineaux, Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Issy – Val de Seine (Paris RER). Multiple RATP bus lines have stops or their arrival/departure station in the city.

Multiple Vélib' and Autolib' stations allow subscribers of those services to share bicycles or electric cars.

There was also a project of cable car, abandoned in February 2008.

Personalities

• Mickael Brisset, footballer
• Christelle Diallo, basketball player
• Rahavi Kifoueti, footballer
• Leïla Bekhti, actress
• Robert Charpentier, cyclist
• Manu Larcenet, comics writer

Twin towns

• Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany, since 1954
• Frameries, Belgium, since 1979
• Macerata, Italy, since 1982
• Hounslow, United Kingdom, since 1982
• Dapaong, Togo, since 1989
• Echmiadzin, Armenia, since 1989
• Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain, since 1990
• Nahariya, Israel, since 1994
• Chongwen District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, since 1998
• Guro, Seoul, South Korea, since 2005
• Madison, New Jersey, United States

Sites of interest

• Île Saint-Germain, an island located in the Seine. The island is divided into two parts, the urban side includes the offices and a residential area. The other side includes a part with the Tour aux Figures (Tower of Figures) [1] by Jean Dubuffet. The Île Seguin is downstream.
• Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer, a museum of playing cards

Gallery

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  City hall of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Mairie d'Issy).

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  Villa Haussmann (modern copy of haussmannian architecture) in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

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  Saint-Sulpice Seminary, between Corentin Celton and Mairie d'Issy metro stations.

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  Rue Ernest Renan in Issy-les-Moulineaux, nearby Corentin Celton metro station.

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  Issy Val-de-Seine business district.

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  Mairie d'Issy metro station (Line 12).

See also

• Communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Issy City Hall
• Issy Tourism Office
• Issy TV