Neuilly-sur-Seine

Neuilly -sur -Seine (French [ Noji syʁ sɛn ] ) is a western suburb of Paris, in the département of Hauts -de- Seine, with 61 797 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ). In the south and west of Neuilly -sur- Seine from the Bois de Boulogne and the Seine is limited; in the north of the Rue de Villiers forms the border to Levallois -Perret. The western city limits of Paris runs just outside the beltway Boulevard périphérique. Neuilly is the preferred place of residence arrivierten French bourgeoisie, especially lawyers, officials and celebrities from film and television.

The Avenue Charles de Gaulle extended between Porte Maillot and the Seine called Axe historique the Avenue des Champs- Élysées in the direction of La Défense.

History

Neuilly -sur -Seine has undergone several name changes in its history. The Romans called the settlement Portus de Lulliaco. Since the Middle Ages, the town changed its name frequently, first in Lugniacum ( 1224 ), then Luingni ( 1226 ). The stem consists of Lun (forest ) and noue ( marshy plain ). More name changes followed in Nully ( 1316), and Nullacum ( 1379 ). Francois I began on July 28, 1528 with the construction of the Château de Madrid, today only the Boulevard du Château reminds of that. It was actually resigned after his acquisition on March 27, 1792 by a demolition company from this. Another castle was built in 1755 by Marc- Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, compte d' Argenson, which burned down in the February Revolution on February 25, 1848 (Villa Saint Foix ).

Until 1606 it was in the north over the Seine, only a ferry. A poorly loaded ferry should Henry IV and Queen Maria de ' Medici return on June 9, 1606 for the St- Germain -en- Laye. The ferry capsized, and the Queen had to be dragged by the hair from the Seine. Henry IV In response, yet in 1606 to build a wooden bridge over the Seine. Louis XV. left off in 1768 to build a 219 m long stone arch bridge by Jean -Rodolphe Perronet, which was inaugurated on 22 September 1772. She was the forerunner of today's 250 -meter Pont de Neuilly, which was opened on 2 December 1942.

On December 15, 1840, a procession with the ashes of Napoleon I of Neuilly moved by the Arc de Triomphe to the Invalides. The municipality of Neuilly was founded by operation of law on December 14, 1789 on May 2, 1897 she was awarded by a decree of the President of its present name. On July 6, 1815 Lord Wellington struck his headquarters in Saint- James. On October 28, 1909, the opening of the American Hospital Paris took place in the presence of the American Ambassador. There, the Treaty of Neuilly was signed on 7 November 1919. On 1 April 1992, the extension of Metro Line 1 was inaugurated on the Pont de Neuilly to La Défense, where the sidewalks had to be narrowed and widened the arches.

Twinning

• Uccle (Belgium )
• Windsor and Maidenhead (England)

Culture and sights

The parish church of Saint- Pierre de Neuilly (1887-1894) was completed according to the plans of architect Louis Henri Alfred Dauvergne after his death by his son Louis Alphonse Dauvergne. The neo-Gothic building was awarded two additional chapels in the years 1913/14. It involves among other things a remarkable statue of the Virgin Mary from the 17th century and the painting Le Christ au jardin des Oliviers ( 1672) by Claudio Coello. Also worth seeing is the Old Cemetery of Neuilly -sur -Seine.

Economy

The world Thales Group is headquartered here.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• François d' Orléans, prince de Joinville (1818-1900), Admiral
• Philipp of Württemberg (1838-1917), Duke of Württemberg
• Ferdinand d' Orléans, duc d' Alençon (1844-1910), nobleman
• Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958), writer
• Marcel Berthet (1888-1953), cyclist
• Alfred Sohn -Rethel (1899-1990), German social scientist and philosopher
• Jacques Prévert (1900-1977), author
• André Beaufre (1902-1975), General and strategy theorists
• André Fleury (1903-1995), composer, pianist, organist and music teacher
• Michèle Morgan ( * 1920 ), actually Simone Renée Roussel, film actress
• Françoise Gilot ( born 1921 ), painter and author
• Chris Marker (1921-2012), Photographer and film director
• Jacques Antoine (1924-2012), journalist and author
• Robert Chapatte (1921-1997), cyclist and television commentator
• Pierre Mondy (1925-2012), actor and director
• Lorin Maazel ( born 1930 ), American conductor
• Michel Poberejsky (1930-2012), racing driver
• Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), painter and sculptor
• Leslie Caron ( born 1931 ), actress
• Alain Bernaud ( born 1932 ), composer
• Louis de Branges de Bourcia ( born 1932 ), mathematician
• Jean -Paul Belmondo ( born 1933), film actor
• Claude Brasseur (* 1936), actor
• Francine Bergé ( born 1938 ), actress
• Jean Rollin (1938-2010), film director and screenwriter
• Gilles Caron (1939-1970), a photojournalist
• Alain Jacquet (1939-2008), painter
• Bruno Pasquier ( born 1943 ), violist
• Philippe Sarde ( born 1945 ), composer
• Elizabeth Tavernier ( born 1946 ), a costume designer
• Jérôme Deschamps ( b. 1947 ), actor, director and playwright
• Bettina Rheims ( b. 1952 ), photographer
• Jean -Dominique Senard (* 1953), Manager
• Michel Abramowicz (born 1954 ), Cinematographer
• Caroline Loeb ( born 1955 ), chanson singer, actress and theater director
• Carole Bouquet ( born 1957 ), film actress
• Lambert Wilson (born 1958 ), film actor
• West Arkeen (1960-1997), American musician
• Sylvie Paycha ( b. 1960 ), mathematician and mathematical physicist
• David Servan-Schreiber (1961-2011), neuropsychologist and author
• Georges Gachot (born 1962 ), a French-Swiss documentary
• Valérie Kaprisky (born 1962 ), film actress
• Hélène Labarrière ( born 1963 ), jazz and improvisation musician
• Mathieu Amalric (born 1965 ), actor and director
• Frédéric Beigbeder (born 1965 ), writer
• Marine Le Pen ( born 1968 ), politician
• Cédric Pioline (born 1969 ), tennis player
• Rodrigo Pessoa (born 1972 ), Brazilian show jumper
• Tristane Banon ( born 1979 ), journalist and author
• Laura Smet ( b. 1983 ), French actress
• Athina Onassis (* 1985), heiress to the Onassis assets

Personalities who have worked at the place ( in alphabetical order)

• Jacques Audiberti (1899-1965), author, died in Neuilly
• Jean Bertin (1917-1975), engineer of aeronautical engineering, died in Neuilly
• Liliane Bettencourt (* 1922), L' Oreal proprietor, lives in Neuilly for decades
• André Cluytens (1905-1967), Belgian - French conductor, died in Neuilly
• Bette Davis (1908-1989), American actress, died in Neuilly
• Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), painter and object artist, died in Neuilly
• René Floriot (1902-1975), criminal defense lawyer, died in Neuilly
• Jean Gabin (1904-1976), actor, died in Neuilly
• Maurice de Gandillac (1906-2006), philosopher, died in Neuilly
• Yvan Goll (1891-1950), German - French poet, died in Neuilly
• Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Russian painter, printmaker and theorist, died in Neuilly
• Jean Lecanuet (1920-1993), politician, died in Neuilly
• Mireille Mathieu ( born 1946 ), singer, lives in Neuilly since the late 1960s
• Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972), writer, playwright and essayist, lived in his youth (1907-1925) in Neuilly
• Ivan Ilyich Mosschuchin (1889-1939), Russian silent film star, died in Neuilly
• Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975), a Greek shipowner, died in Neuilly
• Armand Peugeot (1849-1915), entrepreneur, died in Neuilly
• Abbé Pierre (1912-2007), priest, founded in Neuilly, the Emmaus Movement 1949
• Yvonne Printemps (1894-1977), singer and actress, died in Neuilly and was buried there
• Albert Robida (1848-1926), writer and cartoonist, died in Neuilly
• Louis Rosier (1905-1956), racing driver, died in a hospital in Neuilly at the consequences of a racing accident
• Nicolas Sarkozy (* 1955), politician, mayor of Neuilly 1983-2002
• Mirza Ahmad Shah (1897-1930), Shah of Persia (1909-1925), died in Neuilly
• Marie Trintignant (1962-2003), actress, died after abuse by her boyfriend Bertrand Cantat in the hospital in the city
• François Truffaut (1932-1984), film director, died in Neuilly
• Rolando Villazón ( b. 1972 ), lives with his family in Neuilly
• Pearl White (1889-1938), American silent film actress, died in Neuilly in the American Hospital