Maisons-Alfort
Maisons- Alfort is a south-east of Paris, this French city with 53 265 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Val -de- Marne in the Île- de -France region. The distance to the center of Paris is about ten kilometers. The inhabitants are called Maisonnais. By 1885 the urban area also included the neighboring parish of Alfortville.
History
The first mention of this place can be found under the name Mansiones in a deed of the king Hugh Capet from the year 988
1885 about 40 % of the urban area were separated and became the neighboring community of Alfortville.
1905 remained Buffalo Bill during the Paris guest performance of his Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show two months in Maisons- Alfort on.
Traffic
The quick RER D ( two stops) and the underground line 8 ( three stations: École vétérinaire de Maisons- Alfort, Maisons- Alfort - Stade, Maisons- Alfort - Les Juilliottes ) is Maison -Alfort very well connected to the network of public transport in Greater Paris connected. Numerous bus lines complement this offer.
The connection to the French road network is good: The Autoroute A4 has a junction ( No. 3) for Maisons, as is the ring road around Paris, the A86 Autoroute ( port 22 ).
Infrastructure
Maisons- Alfort is the seat of the National Veterinary School ( École nationale d' Alfort vétérinaire ), then the second device to the study of veterinary medicine in France, and the headquarters of the state-owned French SME Bank BDPME.
Musée Fragonard
The Musée Fragonard is connected to the national veterinary school and preparations shows the surgeon and anatomist Honoré Fragonard (1732-1799), the teacher of this college from 1766 and spent five years as its director. He then became head of the anatomical department of the newly founded École de Santé in Paris. Fragonard belonged to the circle of the encyclopedist, who carried out his basic anatomy for research not only on dead animals but also on human deceased. Body parts or whole body were dissected free and injected into the blood vessels colored wax. In the further preservation only bones and tendons of the original remain - for the medicine still very natural. The best-known exhibition object is an entire horse with rider. The principle of the method still exists today continues in plastination.
Twinning
With Moers in North Rhine -Westphalia is a city partnership.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Nicole Tourneur (1950-2011), writer
- Tariq Abdul- Wahad ( b. 1974 ), basketball player