Maisons-Alfort | |
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| Coordinates:48°48′21″N2°26′16″E / 48.8058°N 2.4378°E /48.8058; 2.4378 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Val-de-Marne |
| Arrondissement | Nogent-sur-Marne |
| Canton | Maisons-Alfort |
| Intercommunality | Grand Paris |
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| • Mayor(2021–2026) | Marie-France Parrain (LR)[1] |
Area 1 | 5.38 km2 (2.08 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 57,422 |
| • Density | 10,700/km2 (27,600/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Maisonnais |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 94046 /94700 |
| Elevation | 24–47 m (79–154 ft) |
| Website | maisons-alfort |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Maisons-Alfort (French pronunciation:[mɛzɔ̃alfɔʁ]ⓘ) is acommune in the southeastern suburbs ofParis,France. It is located 8.4 km (5.2 mi) from thecentre of Paris.
Maisons-Alfort is famous as the location of theNational Veterinary School of Alfort. TheFort de Charenton, constructed between 1841 and 1845, has since 1959 housed theCommandement des Écoles de laGendarmerie Nationale.
Originally, Maisons-Alfort was called simply Maisons. The name Maisons comes fromMedieval LatinMansiones, meaning "the houses".
At the creation of the commune during theFrench Revolution, the name of the hamlet of Alfort was joined with the name of Maisons. The name Alfort comes from the manor built there byPeter of Aigueblanche,Bishop of Hereford (England), in the middle of the 13th century. The name of this Manor of Hereford was corrupted intoHarefort, thenHallefort, and eventually Alfort. TheNational Veterinary School of Alfort was settled several centuries later in the manor and its estate.
On 1 April 1885, 40% of the territory of Maisons-Alfort was detached and became the commune ofAlfortville.
TheHôtel de Ville was officially opened in 1896.[3]
In 1905,Buffalo Bill stayed two months in Maisons-Alfort while his famousBuffalo Bill's Wild West Show performed in Paris.
At 8.39am on 8 September 1944 aV-2 rocket landed and killed six people at Charentonneau,[4] launched from Petites-Tailles, nearHouffalize, in southeast Belgium byLehr und Versuchsbatterie 444.[5] This was the first destruction caused by a V-2 rocket.[6][7]
Later that day, a V-2 rocket fromWassenaar in the Netherlands, launched by 485 Artillerie Abteilung at 6.37pm, would hitStaveley Road in west London.
The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Maisons-Alfort proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Maisons-Alfort ceded the commune ofAlfortville in 1885.[8]
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| Born inmetropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France | |||
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| 82.8% | 17.2% | |||
| Born in overseas France | Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1 | EU-15 immigrants2 | Non-EU-15 immigrants | |
| 1.9% | 3.4% | 3.1% | 8.8% | |
| 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. | ||||
Maisons-Alfort is part of thearrondissement of Nogent-sur-Marne. It is the only commune of thecanton of Maisons-Alfort.[10]
The commune has:[11]
Maisons-Alfort is twinned withMoers in the German state ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia.
Maisons-Alfort is served by three stations onParis Métro Line 8:École Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort,Maisons-Alfort–Stade, andMaisons-Alfort–Les Juilliottes.
It is also served by two stations on ParisRER D:Maisons-Alfort–Alfortville andLe Vert de Maisons.
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