Louveciennes

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Commune of Louveciennes First snow in Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley, 1870
Location
Longitude	02° 05' East
Latitude	48° 52' North
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Canton	Marly-le-Roi
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes des Coteaux de Seine
Mayor	André Vanhollebeke (2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	80? m–180? m (avg. 140 m)
Land area¹	5.37 km²
Population² (1999)	7,217
- Density (1999)	1,344/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	78350/ 78430
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Louveciennes is a village and commune in the Yvelines département, in France, in the western suburbs of Paris, between Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and adjacent to Marly-le-Roi.

Contents 1 Sights 2 Culture 3 History 4 Economy 5 Twin towns 6 External links

[edit] Sights

• The Château de Louveciennes, built in 1700 by Louis XIV and given to Madame du Barry by Louis XV.
• The Aqueduct of the Machine de Marly

[edit] Culture

Louveciennes was frequented by impressionist painters in the 19th century; according to the official site, there are over 120 paintings by Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, and Monet depicting Louveciennes.

Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, the most famous female painter of the 18th century, died in Louveciennes March 30, 1842.

Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, died in Louveciennes March 19, 1987.

[edit] History

Until 1964, Louveciennes belonged to the former Seine-et-Oise département.

NATO had barracks for SHAPE here from 1959-1967, and the American School of Paris was located nearby from 1959 to 1967.

[edit] Economy

After SHAPE left France, the French government allocated the property to CII, which soon thereafter became part of CII Honeywell Bull. Groupe Bull still has offices in Louveciennes.

[edit] Twin towns

Louveciennes is twinned with:

• Radlett, United Kingdom, 20 km north of London - since 1983
• Meersburg, Germany, at the shores of lake constance - since 1991
• Vama, Romania, 450 km north of Bucarest - since 2000

[edit] External links

• Louveciennes official website (in French)
• Louveciennes twin committee official website (in French)
• American School alumni view of Louveciennes
• Church Saint Martin et Saint Blaise de Louveciennes
• Committee for partnership between Louveciennes and their twin towns (in French)
• Louveciennes 360 panoramas (French)