- Louveciennes
french commune
nomcommune=Louveciennes
, 1870
région=Île-de-France
département=Yvelines |arrondissement=Saint-Germain-en-Laye
canton=Marly-le-Roi|insee=78350|cp=78430
maire= André Vanhollebeke|mandat= 2001-2008
intercomm=Communauté
de communes
des Coteaux de Seine
longitude=2.117222
latitude=48.860833
alt moy=140 m
alt mini=80? m|alt maxi=180? m|hectares=537 |km²=5.37|sans=7,217|date-sans=1999
dens= 1,344|date-dens=1999Louveciennes is a village and commune in the
Yvelines "département", inFrance , in the western suburbs ofParis , betweenVersailles andSaint-Germain-en-Laye , and adjacent toMarly-le-Roi .ights
* 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 byLouis XIV and given toMadame du Barry byLouis XV .
*The Aqueduct of the Machine de MarlyCulture
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 LouveciennesMarch 30 ,1842 .Louis, 7th duc de Broglie ,physicist andNobel Prize laureate, died in LouveciennesMarch 19 ,1987 .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.
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.Twin towns
Louveciennes is twinned with:
* - since 1983
* - since 1991
* - since 2000References
External links
* [http://www.mairie-louveciennes.fr/ Louveciennes official website] (in French)
* [http://world.std.com/~hmfh/louvec.htm American School alumni view of Louveciennes]
* [http://romanes.com/Louveciennes/ Church Saint Martin et Saint Blaise de Louveciennes]
* [http://www.cjlouveciennes.info Committee for partnership between Louveciennes and their twin towns] (in French)
* [http://www.louveciennes.info/ Louveciennes 360 panoramas] fr icon
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