Issy-les-Moulineaux

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|commune status = Commune

|image = Petit Bras de Seine @ Issy-les-Moulineaux @ Paris (30184037683).jpg

|caption = Île Saint-Germain, Seine River and Val de Seine business district in the background

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|map caption = Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs

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|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine).svg

|arrondissement = Boulogne-Billancourt

|canton = Issy-les-Moulineaux

|INSEE = 92040

|postal code = 92130

|mayor = André Santini{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}

|population demonym = {{Lang|fr|Isséens}}

|party = UDI

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = Grand Paris

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|elevation max m = 96

|area km2 = 4.25

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Issy-les-Moulineaux ({{IPA|fr|isi le mulino}}) is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France, lying on the left bank of the river Seine. Its citizens are called {{Lang|fr|Isséens}} in French.[https://www.habitants.fr/hauts-de-seine-92 Hauts-de-Seine], habitants.fr It is one of Paris's entrances and is located {{convert|6.6|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Notre Dame Cathedral, which is considered Kilometre Zero in France. On 1 January 2010, Issy-les-Moulineaux became part of the Grand Paris Seine Ouest agglomeration community, which merged into the Métropole du Grand Paris in January 2016.

Issy-les-Moulineaux has successfully moved its economy from an old manufacturing base to high value-added service sectors and is at the heart of the Val de Seine business district, the largest cluster of telecommunication and media businesses in France, hosting the headquarters of most major French television networks.

Geography

Issy-les-Moulineaux is a municipality located on the edge of the 15th arrondissement of Paris, along the main axis between Paris and Versailles, and on the left bank of the Seine. The town is situated {{convert|7.5|km}} southwest of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, the central point of France's road network, and {{convert|3|km}} from the town hall of the 15th arrondissement.

It is positioned {{convert|4|km}} east of the sub-prefecture Boulogne-Billancourt and {{convert|11|km}} southeast of the prefecture of Nanterre. Within its territory, Issy-les-Moulineaux encompasses the Île Saint-Germain, an island in the Seine.

Name

Originally, Issy-les-Moulineaux was simply called Issy. The name Issy comes from the Medieval Latin Issiacum or Isciacum, perhaps meaning "estate of Isicius (or Iccius)", a Gallo-Roman landowner, although some think the name comes from a Celtic radical meaning "under the wood". Local legend recounted on the city's official website mentions an alternative origin of the name arising from a temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis said to be under the site of the Church of Saint Stephen. L'Eglise Sainte-Etienne severement touchee par les bombardements http://www.issy/taxonomy/term/492/leglise-saint-etienne{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In 1893 Issy officially became Issy-les-Moulineaux. Les Moulineaux was the name of a hamlet on the territory of the commune, apparently named Les Moulineaux due to the water mill or mills ({{Langx|fr|moulins à eau}}) that stood there.History blog entry Issy-les-Moulineaux, au carrefour des eaux de source http://www.historim.fr/2013/11/issy-les-moulineaux-au-carrefour-des.html

History

File:Hôtel ville Issy Moulineaux 3.jpg]]

In July 1815 the Battle of Issy was fought in and around the village between Prussian and French forces. It was one of the last actions of the 'Hundred Days' campaign and was the final attempt to defend Paris against the armies of the Seventh Coalition.{{cite book| last=Siborne | first=William | author-link=William Siborne | year=1848 | title=Waterloo Campaign 1815| edition=Fourth campaign | publisher=A. Constable | pages=748–[https://archive.org/stream/waterloocampaig02sibogoog#page/n754/mode/1up1 749]}}

On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occasion, about a third of the commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux was annexed to Paris, and forms now the neighborhood of Javel, in the 15th arrondissement.

The town was once the location of the Château d'Issy, former home of the Princes of Conti. It was destroyed in 1871,

Issy-les-Moulineaux is home to a community of 5,000 Armenians that have established themselves in the area since the 1930s.{{cite news|title=Conférence: la présence arménienne à Issy|url=http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=109633|agency=Nouvelles d'Arménie Magazine|date=30 March 2015|language=fr|access-date=31 March 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194430/http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=109633|url-status=dead}} The community has two Armenian churches, an athletic club, a school, a monument dedicated to the Armenian genocide, and streets named after Armenia, Rue d'Armenie, and Rue d'Erevan, named after Armenia's capital Yerevan.{{cite news|last1=Yessayan|first1=Catherine|title=Armenians of Issy-les-Moulineaux|url=http://asbarez.com/104286/armenians-of-issy-les-moulineaux/|agency=Asbarez|date=20 July 2012}}{{cite book|last1=Marès|first1=Antoine|last2=Milza|first2=Pierre|title=Le Paris des étrangers depuis 1945|date=1994|publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne|isbn=2859442561|page=211|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ruZUfQqFYicC}} Issy-les-Moulineaux became twin cities with Echmiadzin, Armenia in December 1989.{{cite book|last1=Hovanessian|first1=Martine|title=Les Arméniens et leurs territoires|date=1995|publisher=Editions Autrement|isbn=286260531X|page=133|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dtSaAAAAIAAJ|language=fr}}

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1895.{{cite web|url= http://www.historim.fr/2014/05/dune-mairie-lautre-place-de-lhotel-de.html|title=D'une mairie à l'autre… place de l'Hôtel de Ville à Issy-les-Moulineaux|publisher=Historim|date=2 May 2014|access-date=1 March 2025}}

Airfield

File:Bits & Pieces - BP374 - Test flight of Pescara's helicopter - 1922 - EYE FLM7760 - OB105716.ogv's helicopter on the aerodrome of Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1922. EYE Film Institute Netherlands.]]

File:lfpi.jpg taking off from the heliport, with the Eiffel Tower behind]]

In the late 19th century, an expansive field in Issy was dedicated to military exercises. This land, owned by the French Army, was made into an airfield in the early 1900s during the pioneering era of aviation. Issy-les-Moulineaux soon became a hot spot for aviation in France, the most active airfield in Paris, and the site of many flight experiments. Photographers, newspaper reporters and intelligence agents from other countries gathered there to report on developments.{{cite book |last=Gibbs-Smith |first=Charles Harvard |author-link=Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith | title=The Aeroplane: An Historical Survey of Its Origins and Development |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzcZAAAAIAAJ |year=1960 |location=London |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office}}

The airfield of Issy-les-Moulineaux was the starting point of the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race. One of the competing planes crashed into the audience during take-off, killing the French Minister of War Henri Maurice Berteaux. It hosted the trap shooting events for the 1924 Summer Olympics.[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=2011-05-05 }} pp. 544-6. {{in lang|fr}}

The firm of Appareils d'Aviation Les Frères Voisin, opened the world's first commercial airplane factory in 1908 in neighborin Boulogne-Billancourt.{{citation needed|date=June 2011}} The firm transformed itself into a luxury automobile manufacturing company named Avions Voisin in 1920. Most of Voisin's manufacturing facilities were then relocated to Issy-les-Moulineaux. Avions Voisin closed its doors in 1940.

The last fixed-wing aircraft flight at ssy-les-Moulineaux occurred in 1953, after which the aerodrome handled only helicopters; it continues to do this, with the ICAO code LFPI. It is operated by Aéroports de Paris.

Demographics

{{Historical populations

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| source = EHESS{{Cassini-Ehess|17659|Issy-les-Moulineaux}} and INSEE (1968–2017)[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-92040#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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|1793 |1400

|1800 |1024

|1806 |1010

|1821 |1243

|1831 |1573

|1836 |2104

|1841 |2629

|1846 |2982

|1851 |3626

|1856 |5233

|1861 |6703

|1866 |9204

|1872 |7775

|1876 |9484

|1881 |11111

|1886 |12080

|1891 |12830

|1896 |14031

|1901 |16639

|1906 |19128

|1911 |23175

|1921 |26587

|1926 |32513

|1931 |40386

|1936 |44091

|1946 |42449

|1954 |47369

|1962 |51776

|1968 |50442

|1975 |47561

|1982 |45772

|1990 |46127

|1999 |52647

|2007 |62316

|2012 |65322

|2017 |68451

}}

=Immigration=

{{France immigration

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|census_year=1999

|metropolitan_France=82.5

|outside_metropolitan_France=17.5

|overseas_France=1.3

|foreign_French=3.6

|EU-15=3.7

|non-EU-15=8.9

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Politics and administration

Since the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, Issy forms one canton: Canton of Issy-les-Moulineaux.[http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000028664297 Décret n° 2014-256 du 26 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine]

= List of mayors =

class="wikitable"

|+List of successive mayors of Issy-les-Moulineaux since 1945{{Cite web|title=Maires d'Issy-les-Moulineaux depuis 1790|url=https://data.issy.com/explore/dataset/maires-dissy/table/?disjunctive.nom_et_prenom&disjunctive.duree&sort=-date_de_debut|access-date=2022-01-17|website=data.issy.com|language=fr}}

! colspan="2" |In office

!Name

!Party

!Capacity

!Ref.

August 1944

|January 1945

|François Anita dit Saint-Gille

1945

|1949

|Fernand Maillet

|PCF

1949

|1953

|Jacques Madaule

|MRP

|{{Cite news|date=24 March 1993|title=Trois disparitions - L'essayiste Jacques Madaule Une curiosité toujours en éveil|work=Le Monde|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1993/03/24/trois-disparitions-l-essayiste-jacques-madaule-une-curiosite-toujours-en-eveil_3923700_1819218.html}}

1953

|1973

|Bonaventure Leca

|SFIO (1953–1969)

PS (1969–1973)

1973

|1980 (died in office)

|Raymond Menand

|MDSF

3 February 1980

|Incumbent

|André Santini

|UDF (1980–2007)

NC (2007–2012)

UDI (since 2012)

|Government Minister (1986–1988 & 2007–2009)

Deputy for Hauts-de-Seine's 10th constituency (1988–2001, 2002–2007, 2009–2017)

General Councillor for the Canton of Issy-les-Moulineaux-Ouest (2001–2002)

Deputy mayor of Courbevoie (1971–1977)

President of SEDIF (1983–present)

President of the CC Arc de Seine (2003–2010)

President of the surveillance council of the SGP (2010–2015)

Vice-president of the Métropole du Grand Paris (2016–present)

Economy

Eurosport,"[http://www.eurosportcorporate.com].""[http://www.eurosport.com]." the Canal+ Group,"[http://www.canalplusgroup.com/cid5460-pid136.htm Mentions legales] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327154751/http://www.canalplusgroup.com/cid5460-pid136.htm |date=2010-03-27 }}." Canal+ Group. Retrieved on 5 March 2010. Coca-Cola France, France 24,"[http://www.france24.com/en/contact-us Contact Us]." France 24. Retrieved on 29 October 2009. Jet Solidaire,[https://www.societe.com/societe/jet-solidaire-810191148.html JET SOLIDAIRE] Microsoft France and Europe,"[http://www.microsoft.com/france/microsoft-en-france/microsoft-france/come-to-see-Microsoft-France.aspx Microsoft Campus in France]." Microsoft. Retrieved on 9 February 2012 Sodexo,"[http://www.sodexo.com/group_en/contact-communication-form.asp Contact Us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716101648/http://www.sodexo.com/group_en/contact-communication-form.asp |date=2011-07-16 }}." Sodexo. Retrieved on 1 June 2010. Icade,{{Cite web|last=AFP|first=Le Figaro fr avec|date=2019-01-03|title=Immobilier: Icade cède les murs de son siège|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/2019/01/03/97002-20190103FILWWW00207-immobilier-icade-cede-les-murs-de-son-siege.php|access-date=2020-06-03|website=Le Figaro.fr|language=fr}} Technicolor SA"[http://www.technicolor.com/GlobalEnglish/legal/Pages/default.aspx Legal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315223047/http://www.technicolor.com/GlobalEnglish/legal/Pages/default.aspx |date=2010-03-15 }}." Technicolor SA. Retrieved on 23 March 2010. and Withings are based in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Transport

Issy-les-Moulineaux is served by two stations on Paris Métro Line 12: Corentin Celton and Mairie d'Issy, two stations on Paris RER line C: Issy–Val de Seine and Issy and three stations on Île-de-France tramway Line 2: Les Moulineaux, Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Issy–Val de Seine. Multiple RATP bus lines have stops or their arrival/departure station in the city.

Multiple Vélib' and Autolib' stations allow subscribers of those services to share bicycles or electric cars.

There was also a cable car[http://www.telepherique-issy.com/index.html Project's website] ({{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005002015/http://www.telepherique-issy.com/index.html |date=October 5, 2007 }}) project, abandoned in February 2008.{{cite news|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/hauts-de-seine/le-telepherique-sacrifie-sur-fond-de-campagne-19-02-2008-3296068056.php|title=Issy-les-Moulineaux - Le téléphérique sacrifié sur fond de campagne|newspaper=Le Parisien|date=2008-02-19|access-date=2012-04-16 | language = fr }}

Education

The commune has 17 public preschools,"[http://issy.com/vie-quotidienne/enfance/education/les-etablissements-scolaires-a-issy/les-ecoles-maternelles Les écoles maternelles]." Issy-les-Moulineaux. Retrieved on September 4, 2016. 16 public elementary schools."[http://issy.com/vie-quotidienne/enfance/education/les-etablissements-scolaires-a-issy/les-ecoles-elementaires Les écoles élémentaires]." Issy-les-Moulineaux. Retrieved on September 4, 2016. four public junior high schools, one public senior high school,"[http://issy.com/vie-quotidienne/enfance/education/les-etablissements-scolaires-a-issy/l-enseignement-secondaire L'enseignement secondaire]." Issy-les-Moulineaux. Retrieved on September 4, 2016. and three private schools."[http://issy.com/vie-quotidienne/enfance/education/les-etablissements-scolaires-a-issy/les-etablissements-prives Les établissements privés]." Issy-les-Moulineaux. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.

Junior high schools:

Collège de la Paix
Collège Henri Matisse
Collège Georges Mandel
Collège Victor Hugo

Lycée Eugène-Ionesco is the community's public senior high school.

Private schools:

Groupe scolaire La Salle Saint Nicolas (junior and senior high school)
École Arménienne « TARKMANTCHATZ » (preschool and elementary school) - An Armenian school
École Sainte-Clotilde (preschool and elementary school)

Notable people

Ali, rapper
Leïla Bekhti, actress
Mickaël Brisset, footballer
Robert Charpentier, cyclist
Christelle Diallo, basketball player
Peter Leo Gerety (19 July 1912 – 20 September 2016), Roman Catholic Archbishop
Jean Jansem, painter
Rahavi Kifouéti, footballer
Manu Larcenet, comics writer
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Melchisédech Thévenot (c. 1620–1692), inventor of the spirit level
Gilles Vincent, (born 1958), writer
Hamidou Tangara (born 1976), footballer

Twin towns – sister cities

File:Issy-les-Moulineaux St, Ejmiatsin.jpg

Issy-les-Moulineaux is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Villes jumelles|url=https://www.issy.com/villesjumelles|website=issy.com|publisher=Issy-les-Moulineaux|language=fr|access-date=2021-02-18}}

{{flagicon|GER}} Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany (1962)
{{flagicon|BEL}} Frameries, Belgium (1979)
{{flagicon|ITA}} Macerata, Italy (1982)
{{flagicon|ENG}} Hounslow, England, United Kingdom (1982)
{{flagicon|TOG}} Dapaong, Togo (1989)
{{flagicon|ARM}} Vagharshapat, Armenia (1989)
{{flagicon|ESP}} Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain (1990)
{{flagicon|ISR}} Nahariya, Israel (1994)
{{flagicon|CHN}} Dongcheng (Beijing), China (1997)
{{flagicon|CHN}} Leshan, China (2003)
{{flagicon|KOR}} Guro (Seoul), South Korea (2005)
{{flagicon|JPN}} Ichikawa, Japan (2012)
{{flagicon|USA}} {{flagicon|Alabama}} Huntsville, Alabama, United States (2023)

{{div col end}} {{Cite web |title=Sister cities of Issy-les-Moulineaux — sistercity.info |url=http://en.sistercity.info/sister-cities/Issy-les-Moulineaux.html |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=en.sistercity.info}}

Since 2018, Issy-les-Moulineaux also has friendly relations with New Julfa (Isfahan), Iran.

Sites of interest

Île Saint-Germain, an island located in the Seine. The island is divided into two parts, the urban side includes the offices and a residential area. The other side includes a park with the Tour aux Figures (Tower of Figures) [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20051207223135/http://194.254.135.72/parcs/parcs/germain/images/isgtour.jpg] by Jean Dubuffet. The Île Seguin is downstream.
Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer, a museum of playing cards

Gallery

Image:Issy-les-Moulineaux mairie.jpg|City hall of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Mairie d'Issy)

Image:Villa-haussmann.jpg|Villa Haussmann (modern copy of architecture in the style of Georges-Eugène Haussmann) in Issy-les-Moulineaux

Image:Issy seminaire Saint-Sulpice avec bassin.jpg|Saint-Sulpice Seminary, between Corentin Celton and Mairie d'Issy metro stations

Image:Issy 6.JPG|Rue Ernest Renan in Issy-les-Moulineaux, nearby Corentin Celton metro station

Image:IssyValSeine.jpg|Issy Val-de-Seine business district

Image:Metro - Paris - Ligne 12 - Mairie d Issy MF67.jpg|Mairie d'Issy metro station (Line 12)

External Sources

[https://www.histclo.com/essay/war/ww1/dc/ref/cou/fra/cent/i/cfapef-iz.html World War I Belgian Refugees: Comite Franco-American pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere -- Izzy-le-Moulineux]