Chatou

Chatou is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants are called the Catoviens .

Geography

Chatou is located at 10 km in the west of Paris, at the edge of the the Seine, to 6 km of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer (sub-prefecture) and to 10 km in the north of Versailles (prefecture).

The communal territory, entirely urbanized, is in a loop of the Seine. It is bordering on the Vésinet in the west, of the Croissy-on-Seine in the south, the Career-on-Seine and Montesson in north. In the east, the Seine separates it from Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine). If the plan of the city is looked at, one can find that it resembles a sitted giraffe. The island of the Impressionists, attached to Chatou, lodges an exhibition site where twice a year the “national fair with the secondhand trade and hams is organized”.

It is served by the station “Chatou-Croissy” of the RER, line A.

The road main axe, of East-West orientation, is the avenue of the Marshal Foch, the secondary road 186, which is prolonged towards Vésinet on the one hand and Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine) by the bridge of Chatou, on the other hand. The secondary road 321 which connects the Career-on-Seine to north with the Croissy-on-Seine in the south also crosses the commune.

Administration

History

The name of Chatou would derive from a name of anybody Gallo-Roman, Cattus .

At the time Gallo-Roman, Chatou was the seat of a Roman villa.

In 1626 a bridge is built on the Seine to replace the preexistent vat.

During the 19th century, it is initially the development of the market gardenings. In 1837, the construction of the railway line of Paris to the Pecq mark the beginning of the expansion of the village. Chatou attracts the Parisian ones which comes there to make canoeing and to attend the Guinguette S at the edge of water. Many villas construisent.
Then towards the end of 19th, the impressionist painters , then the fawn-coloured are interested in it, in particular André Derain, native of Chatou.

Demography

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Economy

The commune of Chatou accommodates 136 companies, mainly with tertiary vocation, in four zones of activities.

In the north of the island of the Impressionists, is one of the 3 sites of division studies and searchs for EDF which employs 850 people.

Culture

Architectural heritage

  • the Notre-Dame church is stone a Romance church calcareous of the 13th century of which there remains only the bell-tower and the bedside, increased and restored during the centuries. The nave was rebuilt in 1622, then, after the bombardments of 1871, by the architect Paul Abadie. The frontage was added in 1880 (work of Eugene Bardon).
  • the House Furnace: restaurant dating from the middle of the 19th century, high impressionist place of the S and canoeing. Auguste Renoir painted there celebrates it “ Déjeuner of the rowers ”. Many artists attended this place, whose Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Edouard Manet, Guy of Maupassant… It is transformed today into restaurant-museum.
  • the factory Pathé Marconi: cradle of the microgroove in Europe in 1951, large building Art déco builds in 1929 by the cabinet Walllis, Gilbert and Partners, the most famous architects of art déco to the the United Kingdom. Given up since 1992, last Pathé factory, it was destroyed at the beginning of November 2004, in spite of the protests of thousands of people, associations and artists who wanted to preserve it as a cultural heritage of the 20th century and for his architectural qualities. Between 1945 and 1960, one produced there the discs Pathé, the Voice of his Master, Columbia, Capitol, Subway-Goldwyn-Mayer, Témoignage, Pathé-Vox, Cetrasoria, Odéon. The ministry for the Culture and the town councilors did not include/understand the interest of a conservation at least partial of the building and preferred a project of property development to him.
  • Nymphée de Soufflot: it is about a manufactures, built to shelter a source, located in a park and visible from the island of Chatou. In the shape of reversed shell, out of glass and grinding stone, it goes back to 1777. Work of Jacques-Germain Soufflot (the architect of the Pantheon), it was built for Henri-Léonard de Bertin, lord of Chatou and minister of Louis XV and Louis XVI, at the same time as the castle which was destroyed in 1912. Listed monument in 1952, its state was considered to be worrying in 1999 by the architect of the buildings of France without no action pursuant being taken to a project of restoration.
  • the Levanneur house: at the origin, Levanneur restaurant attended in particular by Maurice de Vlaminck and Andre Derain. Badly renovated in 1995, the house suffers to be made ugly National center of the print and printed art.
  • the water station: construction timber sheltering in its ground floor the Sequana association which maintains and renovates boats having sailed on the Seine at the time of the impressionists and the floor a restaurant giving on the edges of the Seine.

Personalities related to the commune

  • François Bernheim born in Chatou in 1947, producing, type-setter and interprets, to see here
  • Gilles Mallet, to advise of Charles V, lord of Chatou, creator of the Bookstore of the King
  • Henry Léonard de Bertin, minister of Louis XV and Louis XVI, general inspector of finances of 1759 to 1763, Minister for Agriculture, the Stations, of the Mines of 1763 to 1781, last lord of Chatou (1762-1789), founder of the cabinet of the Charters, ancestor of our Public records, founder of the Schools Veterinary surgeons de Lyon and Houses-Alfort, friend of Turgot which it names as intendant from Limoges, in favor of the reform of the Parliaments founded by Louis XV and Maupéou (1770-1774)
  • Camille Joseph Périer, appointed then even of France, brother of the president of the Council of Louis-Philippe (Casimir Pierre Perier), mayor of Chatou of 1832 to 1844, author of the abolition of the toll of Chatou in 1835, died in Chatou in 1844
  • Victor Suin senator and city council man of Chatou under the Second Empire, died in Chatou in 1877
  • Paul Abadie (1812-1884), city council man of Chatou of 1870 to 1874, architect of the Sacred Heart in 1874, died with Chatou in 1884
  • Charles Lamoureux, leader, founder of the Concerts which bear its name, had a house in Chatou, avenue of the Park, the Haendel villa, of 1876 with her death in 1899.
  • Maurice Berteaux (1852-1911), minister, deputy and mayor of Chatou of 1893 to 1911
  • Georges Mandel born in Chatou in 1885, deputy and minister
  • Lucien Dalsace, French actor born in Chatou in 1893
  • André Derain
  • Maurice de Vlaminck

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • Town of Chatou, official site
  • http://chatounotreville.hautetfort.com, Chatou site Our City
  • Organ of Notre-Dame of Chatou, official site
  • Notre-Dame of Chatou
  • Seen air of the commune of Chatou on the site of IAURIF
  • Chatou on the site of IGN
  • Chatou on the site of Plane INSEE
  • of intendance of the parish of Chatou on the site of the files of Yvelines

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