Arcueil

Arcueil
Maison des Gardes, part of the Guise Castle
Coat of arms
Arcueil
Location within Île-de-France region Arcueil
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	L'Haÿ-les-Roses
Intercommunality	Val de Bièvre
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Daniel Breuiller
Area1	2.33 km2 (0.90 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	19,548
• Density	8,400/km2 (22,000/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	94003 /
Elevation	42–105 m (138–344 ft)
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.

Arcueil [aʁkœj] is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 5.3 km (3.3 mi) from the center of Paris.

Name

Map of Arcueil

The name Arcueil was recorded for the first time in 1119 as Arcoloï, and later in the 12th century as Arcoïalum, meaning "place of the arches" (Latin radical arcus, "arch", and Celtic suffix -ialo, "clearing, glade", "place of"), in reference to the Roman aqueduct carrying water to the Roman city of Lutetia (modern Paris). Still standing, the arches of the Roman aqueduct are still visible since the Middle Ages, crossing the Bièvre River valley near Arcueil.

History

The commune of Arcueil was officially renamed Arcueil-Cachan in 1894, after the hamlet of Cachan located within the commune. On 26 December 1922, Cachan seceded from the commune of Arcueil-Cachan and became a commune in its own right. The reduced commune of Arcueil-Cachan was renamed simply Arcueil.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,338	—
1800	1,168	−12.7%
1806	1,200	+2.7%
1821	1,439	+19.9%
1831	1,809	+25.7%
1836	1,746	−3.5%
1841	1,734	−0.7%
1846	2,701	+55.8%
1851	3,071	+13.7%
1856	2,957	−3.7%
1861	4,078	+37.9%
1866	5,024	+23.2%
1872	5,258	+4.7%
1876	5,299	+0.8%
1881	6,067	+14.5%
1886	6,465	+6.6%
1891	6,088	−5.8%
1896	7,064	+16.0%
1901	8,425	+19.3%
1906	9,237	+9.6%
1911	11,319	+22.5%
1921	14,966	+32.2%
1926	12,559	−16.1%
1931	16,200	+29.0%
1936	16,590	+2.4%
1946	16,340	−1.5%
1954	18,067	+10.6%
1962	20,224	+11.9%
1968	21,877	+8.2%
1975	20,330	−7.1%
1982	20,064	−1.3%
1990	20,334	+1.3%
1999	18,061	−11.2%
2006	19,129	+5.9%
2009	19,548	+2.2%

Economy

Orange France, a subsidiary of France Télécom, has its headquarters in Arcueil.

Transport

Arcueil is served by two stations on Paris RER line B: Laplace and Arcueil – Cachan.

Education

Residents are served by the Lycée intercommunal Darius-Milhaud in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.

Personalities

• Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589), member of the "Pléiade".
• Adrienne Bolland (1895–1975), first woman to fly an airplane across the Andes, was born in Arcueil.
• Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), chemist.
• Michel Bulteau, writer and cult film maker, is a native of Arcueil.
• Pierre and Marie Curie installed at Arcueil an annex of the Institut du Radium for the chemical treatment of radioactive elements.
• Jean-Paul Gaultier, fashion designer.
• Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, astronomer and physicist.
• Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) called Douanier Rousseau, notable naive painter.
• The Marquis de Sade, writer and libertine.
• Erik Satie, composer, lived in Arcueil from 1898 to 1925.
• Dulcie September, of the African National Congress, when living in France lodged in Arcueil; an Arcueil high school is named after her.

See also

the 3rd Arcueil aqueduct, completed in 1900, and still supplying 145 000 m³ a day to Paris.

• Society of Arcueil
• Communes of the Val-de-Marne department
• fr:Aqueducs d'Arcueil et de Cachan French Wiki article on the history of the 3 aqueducts

References

• INSEE
• Mayors of Essonne Association (French)

External links

• Official website (French)
• Arcueil Business Theatre (French)