Sèvres
Sèvres is a commune with 23,278 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) and a suburb of Paris, in the département of Hauts -de- Seine. Not far from the Palace of Versailles, Sèvres is the seat of numerous congresses and organizations, such as the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, in which, among other things, the original kilogram and the historical standard meter are kept.
History
The general Sèvres was known primarily by the Treaty of Sèvres, which was completed in 1920 after the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and settled the post-war order in South East Europe and the Middle East. An essential element of the contract was concluded between the Entente and the Ottoman Sultan parts of the contract, after Armenians and (after a referendum ) Kurds should be granted independence and Greece the coastal region around Smyrna (now Izmir ), Italy to the south-west part and France and Great Britain was awarded the South- eastern part. The contract was not recognized by Atatürk and the " Young Turks " and 1923 revised by the Treaty of Lausanne in favor of Turkey.
Policy
Mayor ( maire ) since 1995, François Kosciusko- Morizet, who is running for the UMP.
Twinning
- Wolfenbüttel ( Germany )
- Mount Prospect, Illinois ( USA)
- Mărăcineni, Romania
Economy
From 1756 Sèvres Manufactory, founded in Vincennes is home to the 1739 and generated next to the Meissen porcelain factory in the 18th century, the most precious of European porcelain.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Charles Julien Brianchon (1783-1864), mathematician
- Constant Troyon (1810-1865), painter
- Louis de Gramont (1855-1912), journalist, playwright and librettist
- Léon Brillouin (1889-1969), Physicist
- Manu Chao ( born 1961 ), musician
- Karim Ziani ( b. 1982 ), the Algerian football player
- Demba Ba ( born 1985 ), Senegalese footballer
- Issiar Dia (* 1987), Senegalese footballer