Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison | ||
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 Vue on the Place de l'Église | ||
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 Paris and inner ring départements | ||
Location of Rueil-Malmaison | ||
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| Coordinates: 48°52′34″N 2°10′52″E / 48.876°N 2.181°E / 48.876; 2.181Coordinates: 48°52′34″N 2°10′52″E / 48.876°N 2.181°E / 48.876; 2.181 | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Hauts-de-Seine | |
| Arrondissement | Nanterre | |
| Canton | Rueil-Malmaison | |
| Intercommunality | Grand Paris | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} (2014–2020) | Patrick Ollier | |
| Area 1 | 14.7 km2 (5.7 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006)2 | 79,379 | |
| • Density | 5,400/km2 (14,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) | |
INSEE/Postal code | 92063 /92500 | |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
Rueil-Malmaison (French pronunciation: [ʁɥɛj malmɛzɔ̃]) is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France. It is located 12.6 kilometres (8 miles) from the centre of Paris. It is one of the wealthiest suburbs of Paris.
Contents
1 Name
2 History
3 Main sights
4 Economy
5 Transport
6 Education
7 Notable residents
8 International relations
8.1 Twin towns – sister cities
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Name
Rueil-Malmaison was originally called simply Rueil. In medieval times the name Rueil was spelled either Roialum, Riogilum, Rotoialum, Ruolium, or Ruellium. This name is made of the Celtic word ialo (meaning "clearing, glade", "place of") suffixed to a radical meaning "brook, stream" (Latin rivus, Old French rû), or maybe to a radical meaning "ford" (Celtic ritu).
In 1928, the name of the commune officially became Rueil-Malmaison in reference to its most famous tourist attraction, the Château de Malmaison, home of Napoléon's first wife Joséphine de Beauharnais.
The name Malmaison comes from Medieval Latin mala mansio, meaning "ill-fated domain", "estate of ill luck". In the Early Middle Ages Malmaison was the site of a royal residence which was destroyed by the Vikings in 846.
History
Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church
Rueil is famous for the Château de Malmaison where Napoleon and his first wife Joséphine de Beauharnais lived. Upon her death in 1814, she was buried at the nearby Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church, which stands at the centre of the city.
The Rueil barracks of the Swiss Guard were constructed in 1756 under Louis XV by the architect Axel Guillaumot, and have been classified Monument historique since 1973. The Guard was formed by Louis XIII in 1616 and massacred at the Tuileries on 10 August 1792 during the French Revolution.
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Rueil was located on the front line.
At the end of the 19th century, Impressionist painters like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet came to paint the Seine River which crosses the town.
Rueil is (despite the title) the principal location of the novel Loin de Rueil by the French novelist Raymond Queneau.
The town is twinned with Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in the United Kingdom.[1]
Main sights
The Château de Malmaison, the residence of Napoléon's first wife Joséphine de Beauharnais, is located in Rueil-Malmaison. It is home to a Napoleonic museum.
The Château de Malmaison, recto, verso
Bedroom of Joséphine de Beauharnais and Napoléon
Billiard room
Library of Napoléon
Dining room
Economy
Office building in the new business district of Rueil-sur-Seine
The main campus of the French Institute of Petroleum research organisation is in Rueil. The city has also become home to many large companies moving out of La Défense business district, located only 5 km (3.1 mi) from Rueil, a trend first established by the move of Esso headquarters to Rueil.
There are about 850 service sector companies located in Rueil, 70 of which employ more than 100 people. A business district called Rueil-sur-Seine (previously known as "Rueil 2000") was created near the RER A Rueil-Malmaison station to accommodate these companies. The business district is equipped with a fiber-optic network.
Several major French companies have their world headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison, such as Schneider Electric and VINCI.[2][3] Schneider had its head office in Rueil-Malmaison since 2000; previously the building Schneider occupies housed the Schneider subsidiary Télémécanique.[4]
Several large international companies have also located their French headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison, such as ExxonMobil, AstraZeneca, American Express and Unilever.
Transport
Rueil-Malmaison is served by Rueil-Malmaison station on Paris RER line A.
Education
Public schools:
- 15 preschools[5]
- 15 elementary schools[6]
- Six junior high schools: Les Bons-Raisins, Henri-Dunant, La Malmaison, Les Martinets, Marcel-Pagnol, Jules-Verne[7]
- Two senior high schools: Lycée Richelieu, Lycée polyvalent Gustave-Eiffel[8]
Private schools:[9]
Collège et lycée Passy-Buzenval
- Collège et lycée Madeleine-Daniélou
- Collège Notre-Dame
- École maternelle et élémentaire Saint-Charles-Notre Dame
- Ecole maternelle élémentaire Charles-Peguy
- Ecole Montessori Bilingue de Rueil-Malmaison
There are tertiary educational institutions in the area.[10]
Notable residents
Jean-Marie Le Pen and his wife, Jany Le Pen, live in a two-story house on the rue Hortense.[11]
International relations
Twin towns – sister cities
Rueil-Malmaison is twinned with:
| City | Region | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
Ávila1 |  Province of Ávila |  Spain | |
Bad Soden[12] |  Hessen |  Germany | |
Fribourg |  Canton of Fribourg |  Switzerland | |
Lynchburg1 |  Virginia |  United States | |
Elmbridge |  Surrey |  England | |
Kitzbühel[13] |  Tyrol |  Austria | 1979 |
Sergiev Posad |  Moscow Oblast |  Russia | |
Timișoara |  Timiș County |  Romania | |
Jelgava |  Zemgale |  Latvia | 2006 |
Zouk Mikael |  Mount Lebanon Governorate | Lebanon | 2009 |
Bukhara1 |  Bukhara Province | Uzbekistan | |
Dubrovnik |  Dubrovnik-Neretva County |  Croatia | 2011 |
Kiryat Malakhi |  Southern District | Israel | 1985 |
Tōgane[14] |  Chiba Prefecture | Japan | 1990 |
^1 Sister City
See also
- Communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department
- List of works by Eugène Guillaume
References
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^ "Privacy Policy." Schneider Electric. Retrieved on 8 July 2010.
^ "Contact." (Map) Vinci. Retrieved on 7 July 2010.
^ "Schneider-Electric s'est installé chez une filiale." Schneider Electric. Retrieved on 8 July 2010.
^ "Les écoles maternelles." Rueil-Malmaison. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Les écoles élémentaires." Rueil-Malmaison. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Les collèges." Rueil-Malmaison. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Les lycées." Rueil-Malmaison. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Les établissements privés." Rueil-Malmaison. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Enseignement supérieur." Rueil-Malmaison. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Marine Le Pen, une riche propriétaire (comme son père)". Le Nouvel Observateur. January 27, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
^ "Partnerstädte" (in German). Bad Soden am Taunus. Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
^ "Partnerstädte". Stadtgemeinde Kitzbühel (in German). Retrieved 2008-08-04.
^ "International Exchange". List of Affiliation Partners within Prefectures. Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
- INSEE
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rueil-Malmaison. |
Rueil-Malmaison Official website (in French)
- official Tourist Board of Rueil Malmaison
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