Villejuif

French commune|nomcommune=Villejuif

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mapcaption=Paris and inner ring départements
lat_long=coord|48|47|42|N|2|21|60|E|region:FR_type:city
région=Île-de-France
département=Val-de-Marne
arrondissement=L'Haÿ-les-Roses
canton=
insee=94076|cp=94800
maire=Claudine Cordillot|mandat=
intercomm=Communauté
d'agglomération
de Val de Bièvre
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km²=5.34
sans=
48,800
47,384|date-sans=Jan. 1, 2005 estimate)
(March 8, 1999 census
dens=9,139|date-dens=2005

Villejuif is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 7 km. (4.3 miles) from the center of Paris.

Name

The name Villejuif was recorded for the first time in a papal bull of 1119 as "Villa Judea", the meaning of which is still debated. Some consider that the meaning was quite simply "land of the Jews", "estate of the Jews", perhaps in reference to some Roman ruins there which people in the Middle Ages deemed satanic and haunted by Saracens and Jews. However, modern historians consider that the etymology of "Villa Judea" was more probably "estate of Juvius or Juveus", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

Demographics

Immigration

France immigration
collectivity_name=Villejuif
census_year=1999
metropolitan_France=76.1
outside_metropolitan_France=23.9
overseas_France=2.8
foreign_French=2.9
EU-15=5.6
non-EU-15=12.6

Demographic Evolution

1793= 1 362| 1800= 1 137| 1806= 1 320| 1821= 1 278| 1831= 1 377| 1836= 1 652| 1841= 1 503| 1846= 1 587| 1851= 1 514
1856= 1 559| 1861= 1 813| 1866= 2 308| 1872= 1 917| 1876= 2 117| 1881= 2 678| 1886= 3 163| 1891= 4 294| 1896= 5 234
1901= 5 835| 1906= 6 600| 1911= 8 671| 1921= 11 725| 1926= 18 751| 1931= 25 192| 1936= 27 540| 1946= 25 359| 1954= 29 280
1962= 46 116| 1968= 51 120| 1975= 55 606| 1982= 52 448| 1990= 48 405| 1999= 47 384

Transport

Villejuif is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 7: Villejuif – Léo Lagrange, Villejuif – Paul Vaillant-Couturier, and Villejuif – Louis Aragon.

Notable inhabitants

*Camille Loiseau, the Doyenne de France from March 26, 2005 to August 12, 2006, died at the Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif.
*Issei Sagawa, the Japanese killer and cannibal, was an inmate at high-security Paul Guiraud hospital in Villejuif, in 1982-1984.

ee also

*The leaflet of Villejuif

External links

* [http://www.ville-villejuif.fr/ Official website]