1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Courbevoie (French pronunciation:[kuʁbəvwa]ⓘ) is acommune located in theHauts-de-Seine department of theÎle-de-France region of France. It is a suburb ofParis, 8.2 km (5.1 mi) from thecenter of Paris. The centre of Courbevoie is situated 2 km (1.2 mi) from the city limits of Paris.
The name Courbevoie comes fromLatinCurva Via and means "curved highway", allegedly in reference to aRoman road from Paris to Normandy that made a sharp turn to climb the hill over which Courbevoie was built.
A wooden bridge was built crossing the Seine at Courbevoie by order ofKing Henry IV when in 1606 his royal coach fell into the river while being transported by ferry. Rebuilt in stone during the eighteenth century, this was replaced by a metal bridge in 1942.[3]
The Convent of the Penitents founded in 1658 by Jean-Baptiste Forne was located in Courbevoie until the Revolution of 1789.[4]
In 1840, the body ofNapoleon was transported fromSaint Helena, where he had been exiled and died, toCherbourg. It was then transferred to the steamerla Normandie and transported toVal-de-la-Haye, where it was transferred to the small ferryla Dorade and transported to Courbevoie. It was then carried by road through the streets of Paris.[5][6]
There are also a large number of city buses that come through the bustling La Défense station.
When it comes to air transportation, Courbevoie can be served by Paris'sCharles de Gaulle Airport as well as Paris-Orly to the south and Beauvais Airport to the north.
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such aspieds-noirs inNorthwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.
