Clamart

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Clamart
Commune
Clamart Town Hall
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring départements
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Coordinates: 48°48′05″N 2°15′46″E / 48.8014°N 02.2628°E / 48.8014; 02.2628Coordinates: 48°48′05″N 2°15′46″E / 48.8014°N 02.2628°E / 48.8014; 02.2628
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Antony
Canton	Clamart
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Didier Berger (LR)
Area 1	8.77 km2 (3.39 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	52,926
• Density	6,000/km2 (16,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	92023 /92140
Elevation	64–175 m (210–574 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Clamart (French pronunciation: [klamaʁ] (listen)) is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 8.7 km (5.4 mi) from the center of Paris.

The town is divided into two parts, separated by a forest: bas Clamart, the historical centre, and petit Clamart with urbanization developed in the 1960s replacing pea fields. The canton of Clamart includes only a part of the commune. The other part of the commune belongs to the canton of Le Plessis-Robinson.

Geography[]

Nearest places[]

• Fontenay-aux-Roses
• Issy-les-Moulineaux
• Vanves
• Meudon

History[]

Les Petits Pois (Peas)[]

The city name is famous in French gastronomy. A specialty with peas as a side-dish, is called "à la Clamart". Close to Paris and its central marketplace (Les Halles), Clamart's peas were the first of the season.

De Gaulle assassination attempt[]

On 22 August 1962 the French President Charles de Gaulle was the target of an assassination attempt organised by the French Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel, Jean Bastien-Thiry. As de Gaulle's black Citroën DS 19^[2] sped through Petit-Clamart it was met by a barrage of submachine-gun fire. De Gaulle and his entourage, which included his wife, survived the attempt without any casualties or serious injuries while the attempt's perpetrators were subsequently all arrested and put on trial. The leader of the assassination attempt, Jean Bastien-Thiry, was executed by firing squad after his 1963 conviction, and was the last person to be executed by firing squad in France.

Population[]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 969 —     1800 736 −3.85% 1806 740 +0.09% 1821 1,022 +2.18% 1831 1,225 +1.83% 1836 1,268 +0.69% 1841 1,567 +4.33% 1846 1,564 −0.04% 1851 1,763 +2.42% 1856 2,149 +4.04% 1861 2,751 +5.06% 1866 3,194 +3.03% 1872 3,163 −0.16% 1876 3,640 +3.57% 1881 4,187 +2.84% 1886 5,112 +4.07% 1891 5,491 +1.44% 1896 6,283 +2.73%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 7,391 +3.30% 1906 8,720 +3.36% 1911 11,376 +5.46% 1921 15,916 +3.42% 1926 22,734 +7.39% 1931 31,047 +6.43% 1936 32,427 +0.87% 1946 33,817 +0.42% 1954 37,924 +1.44% 1962 47,991 +2.99% 1968 54,906 +2.27% 1975 52,952 −0.52% 1982 48,353 −1.29% 1990 47,227 −0.29% 1999 48,572 +0.31% 2007 51,000 +0.61% 2012 52,408 +0.55% 2017 52,971 +0.21%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Transport[]

Clamart is served by Clamart station on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line. There are also several bus lines connecting Clamart to neighbouring towns.

Education[]

Clamart has multiple primary schools, and attendance is determined by one's residence.^[5]

Junior high schools:

• Collège Alain Founier^[6]
• Collège Maison Blanche^[7]

Senior high school: ^[8]

Personalities[]

• Henri Matisse lived in Clamart before the First World War.^[9]
• Roger Cotte (1921–1999), recorder player and musicologist, was born in Clamart.
• Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp lived in Clamart in the 1930s.^[10]
• Yasser Arafat died in the Hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy in 2004.
• Jean Bastien-Thiry, leader of 1962 assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle.
• Nikolai Berdyaev died here in 1948.
• Hatem Ben Arfa was born here in 1987.
• Julien Kapek, athlete.
• Theofan (Bystrov), archbishop and theologian of Eastern Orthodox Church, lived here in 1931.
• Beauford Delaney, an American born artist, moved to the town in 1953.
• Vincent Poirier, professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the NBA, was born here in 1993.
• Alexander Blonz, Norwegian handball player was born here in 2000, and lived here the first year of his life.

International relations[]

Clamart is twinned with:

• Lüneburg, Germany since 1975
• Scunthorpe, United Kingdom, since 1976
• Majadahonda, Spain, since 1988
• Artashat, Armenia, since 2003
• Penamacor, Portugal, since 2006

See also[]

• Communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department
• The statue "La Source" in Clamart is by Pierre Charles Lenoir

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clamart.

• Official website (in French)
• New residents' welcome website (in French)