Clamart

Clamart
Town hall
Clamart
Location within Île-de-France region  Clamart
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Antony
Intercommunality	Sud de Seine
Mayor	Philippe Kaltenbach (PS)
Statistics
Elevation	64–175 m (210–574 ft)
Land area1	8.77 km2 (3.39 sq mi)
Population2	51,407  (2008)
- Density	5,862 /km2 (15,180 /sq mi)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°48′05″N 2°15′46″E / 48.801389°N 02.262778°E / 48.801389; 02.262778

Clamart (French pronunciation: [kla.maʁ]) 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.

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 paramilitary group of OAS. As de Gaulle's black Citroën official limousine sped through Petit-Clamart it was met by a "barrage of submachine-gun fire".^[1] 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 to trial.

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.

Personalities

• Henri Matisse lived in Clamart before the First World War.^[2]
• Hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy. Yasser Arafat died in this hospital 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.

Nearest places

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

Twin towns

• 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

References

• INSEE

1. ^ "Objective: De Gaulle", TIME, 9 October 1973
2. ^ Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, New York City: The Bodeley Head, Reprint: London: Penguin Classic, 2001, p. 102

External links

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