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L'Haÿ-les-Roses
L'Haÿ-les-Roses () is a Communes of France, commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. L'Haÿ-les-Roses is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Val-de-Marne ''Départements of France, département'', being the seat of the Arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses. The current mayor, serving until 2026, is Vincent Jeanbrun, from the The Republicans (France), Republicans party. L'Haÿ-les-Roses owes the second part of its name to the Roseraie du Val-de-Marne rose garden located there. Name The commune of L'Haÿ-les-Roses was originally called simply L'Haÿ. The name was recorded for the first time in a charter of Charlemagne in 798 as ''Laiacum'', sometimes also spelt ''Lagiacum'', meaning "estate of Lagius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. The name was later corrupted into ''Lay'', ''Lahy'', before it eventually went back to L'Haÿ. In May 1914 the name of the commune became officially L'Haÿ-les-Roses (meaning "L'Haÿ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of L'Haÿ-les-Roses
The arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses () is an Arrondissements of France, arrondissement of France in the Val-de-Marne Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region. It has 18 Communes of France, communes. Its population is 578,438 (2021), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses, and their INSEE codes, are: # Ablon-sur-Seine (94001) # Arcueil (94003) # Cachan (94016) # Chevilly-Larue (94021) # Choisy-le-Roi (94022) # Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, Fresnes (94034) # Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Gentilly (94037) # L'Haÿ-les-Roses (94038) # Ivry-sur-Seine (94041) # Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (94043) # Orly (94054) # Rungis (94065) # Thiais (94073) # Valenton (94074) # Villejuif (94076) # Villeneuve-le-Roi (94077) # Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (94078) # Vitry-sur-Seine (94081) History The arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses was created in January 1973. On 25 February 2017, it gained 8 communes from the arrondissement of Cr� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Haÿ-les-Roses Station
L'Haÿ-les-Roses () is an underground station on Line 14 of the Paris Métro. It is part of the Grand Paris Express project. The station is located in the commune of L'Haÿ-les-Roses at the intersection of Rue de Bicêtre, Rue de Lallier and Rue Paul Hochart. The station opened on 24 June 2024 as part of the extension of Line 14 from to Aéroport d'Orly. History L'Haÿ-les-Roses station serves a densely populated area currently undergoing revitalization. The station is expected to act as a catalyst for a proposed urban renewal program for the area. Construction of the station commenced in March 2018 under the leadership of a consortium led by Razel-Bec, a subsidiary of the Fayat Group The Fayat Group is a French and international construction and industrial company. It is a family owned firm, founded in 1957 by Clément Fayat, and managed by his sons Jean-Claude Fayat and Laurent Fayat. It is structured in 7 fields of act .... Franklin Azzi Architecture designed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roseraie De L'Haÿ
Roseraie du Val-de-Marne or Roseraie de L'Haÿ is a rose garden in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Val-de-Marne, France. History Jules Gravereaux, who made his fortune in the Bon Marché department store in Paris, purchased a large property in L'Haÿ about 8 km south of Paris in 1892 and hired the famous landscape architect and horticulturalist Édouard André to lay out a garden containing 1600 roses. The garden claims to be the first ever garden dedicated exclusively to roses. Gravereaux collected roses from all over Europe and started to create new rose varieties for the production of rose oil for perfume, which would facilitate the process of distillation. He worked on hybrids of Rosa rugosa and developed the cultivar 'Rose à parfum de L'Haÿ', among others. In all he created 27 new cultivars, primarily for rose oil production. The very fragrant, crimson-purple rugosa hybrid 'Roseraie de L'Haÿ', was named for this garden. Roseraie de L'Haÿ reached peak capacity at 8000 ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevilly-Larue
Chevilly-Larue () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Name Chevilly-Larue was originally called simply Chevilly. The name Chevilly was recorded for the first time in 829 (in a donation by Eucade, bishop of Paris) as ''Civiliacum'', probably meaning "estate of Civilis", a Gallo-Roman landowner. On 5 September 1921 the name of the commune officially became Chevilly-Larue in order to distinguish it from the homonymous commune of Chevilly in the Loiret '' département''. Larue was a hamlet located within the commune. Founded at the end of the Hundred Years' War along the small road from L'Haÿ-les-Roses to Fresnes, it was originally called ''La Ruelle'' (meaning "the lane", the "alleyway"), later corrupted into ''La Rue'' and eventually Larue. Geography Neighboring communes: L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Fresnes, Rungis, Thiais and Vitry-sur-Seine. Transport Chevilly-Larue is served by no station of the Paris Métro, RER, or su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Métro Line 14
Paris Métro Line 14 (French: ''Ligne 14 du métro de Paris'') is one of the sixteen lines on the Paris Métro. It connects and Aéroport d'Orly (Paris Métro), Aéroport d'Orly on a north-west south-east diagonal via the three major stations of Gare Saint-Lazare, the Châtelet station, Châtelet–Les-Halles complex, and Gare de Lyon. The line goes through the centre of Paris, and also serves the communes of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, Clichy, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Gentilly, Villejuif, Chevilly-Larue, L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Thiais and Paray-Vieille-Poste. The first Paris Métro line built from scratch since the 1930s, it has been operated completely automatically since its opening in 1998, and the very positive return of that experiment motivated the retrofitting of Paris Métro Line 1, Line 1 for full automation. Before the start of its commercial service Line 14 was known as project Météor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Gravereaux
Jules Léopold Gravereaux (; 1 May 1844 in Vitry-sur-Seine – 23 March 1916 in Paris) was a French rosarian. He was a top executive at the department store Le Bon Marché and in 1892 purchased land at the village of L'Haÿ about 8 km south of Paris. There, he built the first ever complete garden devoted exclusively to roses, the Roseraie de L'Haÿ. It became so popular that a few years later the village changed its name to L'Haÿ-les-Roses. Biography His parents were Jean Narcisse Gravereaux, carpenter, and Marie Henriette Gervais. In March 1856, at age 12, he was apprenticed to a hatter of rue du Bac. He was hired two years later by the haberdashery of Aristide Boucicault and wife. In 1852, Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault bought the land in front of their shop to build Le Bon Marché. Jules Gravereaux began at Le Bon Marché in 1864 as a private seller and moved up the ranks. He joined the board in 1871. In August 1873, he married Laure Marie Alexandrine Thuillier (1852-1932). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne (, "Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river Marne, it is situated in the Grand Paris metropolis to the southeast of the City of Paris. In 2019, Val-de-Marne had a population of 1,407,124.Populations légales 2019: 94 Val-de-Marne INSEE Its INSEE and postcode number is 94. Geography Val-de-Marne is, together with Seine-Saint-Denis and |
Rose Garden
A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses, and sometimes rose species. Designs vary tremendously and roses may be displayed alongside other plants or grouped by individual variety, colour or class in rose beds. Technically it is a specialized type of shrub garden, but normally treated as a type of flower garden, if only because its origins in Europe go back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe, when roses were effectively the largest and most popular flowers, already existing in numerous garden cultivars. Origins of the rose garden Of the over 150 species of rose, the Chinese ''Rosa chinensis'' has contributed most to today's garden roses; it has been bred into garden varieties for about 1,000 years in China, and over 200 in Europe. It is believed that roses were grown in many of the early civilisations in temperate latitudes from at least 5000 years ago. They are known to have been grown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cachan
Cachan () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The prestigious École Spéciale des Travaux Publics is located there. Name During the Middle Ages, Cachan was referred to in Medieval Latin texts as ''Caticantum'', later corrupted into ''Cachentum'', ''Cachant'', and then Cachan. Some understand ''Caticantum'' as meaning "singing of the cat", "mewing of the cat", but this is not certain. Some others see a connection with the verb "to hunt" (''captiare'' in Vulgar Latin, ''chacier'' in Old French). History Cachan was originally a hamlet within the commune of Arcueil, later renamed ''Arcueil-Cachan''. The commune of Cachan was created on 26 December 1922 when it seceded from the commune of ''Arcueil-Cachan'', which was renamed back to Arcueil. Population Neighboring communes * Arcueil - north * Villejuif - east * L'Haÿ-les-Roses - southeast * Bourg-la-Reine - southwest * Bagneux - west Transport Cachan is serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresnes, Val-de-Marne
Fresnes () is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris, next to Antony, Sceaux and Rungis. It is drained by the River Bièvre. The Fresnes Prison, where Jean Genet was held for a time, is located there. It was, between 1978 and 1981, the only place for executions in France, although no sentence of death was executed in that period. The guillotine maintained for the purpose remains in storage at the prison. Name The name Fresnes was recorded for the first time in a papal bull of 1152 as ''Fraxinum''. This name comes from Medieval Latin ''fraxinus'' (modern French: ''frêne''), meaning "ash tree", after the ash trees covering the territory of Fresnes in ancient times. Population Transport Fresnes is served by no station of the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Fresnes are Antony or La Croix de Berny station on Paris RER line B and Chemin d'Antony s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Paris
The Metropolis of Greater Paris (, ),There is an English translation. also known as Greater Paris, is a ''métropole'' covering the Paris, City of Paris and its nearest surrounding suburbs that was created from Sarkozy's renovation of the city. The ''métropole'' came into existence on 1 January 2016; it comprises 130 Communes of France, communes, including Paris and all 123 communes in the surrounding inner-suburban departments of the ''Petite Couronne'' (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne), plus seven communes in two of the outer-suburban departments, including the communes of Argenteuil in Val-d'Oise, Savigny-sur-Orge, Juvisy-sur-Orge, Viry-Châtillon and Paray-Vieille-Poste in Essonne, the last of which covers part of Orly Airport. Part of the ''métropole'' comprises the Seine (department), Seine department, which existed from 1929 to 1968. Grand Paris covers 814 square kilometers (314 square miles), and has a population of over 7 million. The ''métropol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
