Levallois-Perret

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Levallois-Perret
Commune
The town hall of Levallois-Perret
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 48°53′42″N 2°17′14″E / 48.895°N 2.2872°E / 48.895; 2.2872Coordinates: 48°53′42″N 2°17′14″E / 48.895°N 2.2872°E / 48.895; 2.2872
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Nanterre
Canton	Levallois-Perret
Intercommunality	Grand Paris; EPT Paris Ouest La Défense
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Agnès Pottier-Dumas
Area 1	2.41 km2 (0.93 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	65,817
• Density	27,000/km2 (71,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	92044 /92300
Elevation	23–34 m (75–112 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Levallois-Perret (French pronunciation: [ləvalwa pɛʁɛ] (listen)) is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies some 6 km from the centre of Paris in the north-western suburbs of the French capital. It is the most densely populated town in Europe and, together with neighbouring Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the most expensive suburbs of Paris.^[2]

Name[]

The name Levallois-Perret comes from two housing developments, Champerret (started by landowner Jean-Jacques Perret in 1822) and Village Levallois (founded by developer Nicolas-Eugène Levallois in 1845), which resulted in the incorporation of the commune.

History[]

On the territory of what is now Levallois-Perret, before the French Revolution, stood the village of Villiers and the hamlet of Courcelles (or La Planchette). They now give their names to two Paris Métro stations. At the time of the creation of French communes during the French Revolution, they were part of the commune of Clichy, and the commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine extended over what is now the south-western part of Levallois-Perret.

Landowner Jean-Jacques Perret initiated a number of housing developments in 1822 in the northeast of the commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine, in a place which soon came to be known as Champerret ("champ Perret": "Perret field") and would later give its name to a station on the Paris Métro. Later in 1845, Nicolas-Eugène Levallois began to develop housing on behalf of André Noël, who owned land near La Planchette (in the commune of Clichy). The land developed by Levallois soon became known as the Village Levallois.

In the 1860s, the village had grown to the point of forming a single built-up area and several requests were made to the authorities for the area to be incorporated as a commune.

Eventually the requests were acceded to and on 30 June 1866 the commune of Levallois-Perret was eventually created by detaching that part of the territory of Clichy on which the Village Levallois stood and merging it with that part of Neuilly-sur-Seine occupied by Champerret.

The Eiffel company had its factory in the commune, and it was therefore in Levallois-Perret that the structure of the both the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower were built.^[3][4][5]

Levallois-Perret became an important centre of the early French automotive industry with the establishment there of such companies as Clément-Bayard, Delage, and the coachbuilders Chapron and . Citroën purchased the Clément-Bayard factory and produced the famous Citroën 2CV there for nearly forty years. Levallois-Perret was also an important centre of the cosmetics industry in the early 20th century. It is also home to the large European commercial real estate company Atisreal and to the conglomerate Alstom.

The northern part of the famous Île de la Jatte in the river Seine, is where French impressionist painters created many of their masterpieces.

Patrick Balkany has been the mayor of Levallois-Perret from 2001 until 2020. He was also mayor during the period 1983–95. The current mayor, elected in 2020, is Agnès Pottier-Dumas.

Demographics[]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1866 15,763 —     1872 19,158 +3.30% 1876 22,744 +4.38% 1881 29,519 +5.35% 1886 35,649 +3.85% 1891 39,857 +2.26% 1896 47,315 +3.49% 1901 58,073 +4.18% 1906 61,920 +1.29% 1911 68,703 +2.10% 1921 73,639 +0.70% 1926 75,144 +0.41% 1931 71,181 −1.08%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1936 65,186 −1.74% 1946 61,681 −0.55% 1954 62,871 +0.24% 1962 61,804 −0.21% 1968 58,941 −0.79% 1975 52,523 −1.63% 1982 53,500 +0.26% 1990 47,548 −1.46% 1999 54,700 +1.57% 2007 63,225 +1.83% 2012 64,654 +0.45% 2017 64,379 −0.09%
Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE (1968-2017)[7]

Immigration[]

Place of birth of residents of Levallois-Perret in 1999

Born in metropolitan France	Born outside metropolitan France
82.5%	17.5%
	Born in overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1	EU-15 immigrants2	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	0.9%	3.5%	4.4%	8.7%
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as Pieds-Noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. 2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Twin towns[]

• Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium
• The Schöneberg district of Berlin, Germany

Adjoining communes[]

Clockwise from the north:

• Asnières-sur-Seine
• Clichy
• Paris
• Neuilly-sur-Seine
• Courbevoie

Administration[]

Levallois-Perret makes up the whole of the canton of Levallois-Perret.

Economy[]

Alstom has its headquarters in Levallois-Perret.^[8] Speed Rabbit Pizza also has its headquarters in the commune.^[9] EVA Air has its Paris office in Levallois-Perret.^[10] According to Le Journal du Net, the debt per inhabitant of Levallois is 9,030 euros, the French record.^[11] Saft Groupe S.A., a subsidiary of Total S.A. in the battery manufacturing industry, is also based in Levallois-Perret.

Previously, Carrefour had its head office in Levallois-Perret.^[12]

Education[]

Public preschools and elementary schools:^[13][14]

• Alfred-de-Musset
• Anatole-France
• Buffon
• George-Sand
• Jules-Ferry
• Maurice-Ravel
• Saint-Exupéry
• Edith Gorce-Franklin (intercommunal school in Neuilly-sur-Seine which serves residents of Levallois in île de la Jatte, quai Charles-Pasqua, and adjacent and/or parallel streets)

Public preschools:^[13]

• Charles-Perrault
• Jean-Jaurès
• Louis-Pasteur

Public elementary schools:^[14]

• Françoise-Dolto
• Jean-de-La-Fontaine

Private preschools and elementary schools:^[15]

• Ecole maternelle et élémentaire Sainte-Marie-de-la-Providence
• Ecole maternelle et élémentaire Emilie-Brandt

Junior high schools (public junior high schools are operated by the department of Hauts-de-Seine):^[16]

• Collège Danton
• Collège Jean-Jaurès
• Collège Louis-Blériot
• Collège privé Saint-Justin

Senior high schools/sixth-form colleges^[17] (public high schools/sixth-form colleges are operated by the Ile-de-France region^[16]):

• Lycée Léonard de Vinci

is in nearby Courbevoie

Post-secondary:

• (FR) are in the city.

Transport[]

Levallois-Perret is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 3: Louise Michel, Anatole France, and Pont de Levallois – Bécon.

It is also served by Clichy – Levallois station on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.

The municipality of Levallois-Perret operates two free bus lines circulating the town.

Sport[]

Levallois Sporting Club is one of the most important sports club in France with 14500 members. Among them you can find notable sportsperson like Teddy Riner, Gauthier Grumier and Gevrise Emane. During his youth Didier Drogba played for the football section, as Joakim Noah did in basketball before moving to the United States for high school and college play and eventually the NBA.

LSC continues to operate teams in a wide variety of sports, but basketball is no longer among them. In 2007, the LSC basketball section merged with Paris Basket Racing, creating Paris-Levallois Basket, which after two name changes in the last half of the 2010s is now known as Metropolitans 92.

Coat of arms[]

The traditional coat of arms for the municipality puts emphasis on the importance of industry in its history. The centre of the arms consists of a shield with red background; a yellow gearwheel in the bottom left and a yellow perfume diffuser in the top right represent the mechanical and perfume industries.

Three red bees, are depicted on a silver bend from the top left to bottom right of the shield, these are another symbol of work in the city, beekeeping taking place at the île de la Jatte. The coat of arms also has a wreath at the bottom around the shield and three castles topping the shield; both in yellow. VILLE DE / LEVALLOIS – PERRET, is inscribed in black letters above the coat of arms.

A cartoon-style bee is used in the modern emblem of the municipality.

Personalities[]

• , sculptor, lived here
• Olivier Besancenot (1974), politician
• Freda Betti (1924–1979), opera singer married in Levallois-Perret in 1949
• Henri Betti (1917–2005), composer resident in Levallois-Perret when he married in 1949
• Clotilde Courau (1969), actress
• Jules David (1848-1923), photographer
• Danièle Delorme (1926–2015), actress and film producer
• Gauthier Diafutua (1985) footballer
• René Hervil (1881–1960), actor, screenwriter and film director
• Pascal Lamy (1947), director-general of the World Trade Organization
• Renald Metelus, footballer
• Louise Michel (1830-1905), French anarchist, is buried in the local cemetery
• William Snook (1861–1916), English running champion, was living in the town in September 1895, when he was accused of theft. He was subsequently acquitted, although his English landlord was convicted^[18][19]
• Louis Trousselier (1881–1939), cyclist
• Roger Rabiniaux (1914–1986), prefect, writer and poet

See also[]

• Optique & Précision de Levallois
• Levallois technique
• Communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department
• Levallois-Perret attack

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Levallois-Perret.

• Levallois-Perret Official Website (in French)
• Murals of Levallois-Perret (in French)