Louveciennes

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Coordinates: 48°51′39″N 2°07′02″E / 48.860833, 2.117222

Administration
Commune of Louveciennes First snow in Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley, 1870
Location

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
Elevation	80? m–180? m (avg. 140 m)
Land area^¹	5.37 km²
Population^² (1999)	7,217
- Density	1,344/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	78350/ 78430
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

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.

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

[edit] Sights

Le château de Voisins

Le château du Pont

Many castles from the 17th and 18th century (Chateau des Voisins, Chateau de Madame Du Barry, Chateau du Pont, Chateau du Parc, Chateau des Sources).

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

L'Aqueduc à Marly by Alfred Sisley, 1874

Entrée du village de Voisins^[1] by Camille Pissarro, 1872

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.

The composer Camille Saint-Saëns lived in Louveciennes from 1865 to 1870.

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

Coat of arms of Louveciennes

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] References

^ Le paysage est peint depuis l'actuelle avenue Saint-Martin, face à l'entrée du château de Voisins (derrière la charette). Il s'agit bien sûr du château actuel reconstruit en 1820.