commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.department of the
region
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in north-central
France
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. It is a western suburb of
Paris
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, from the
center
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** Center (ring theory)
* Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentrici ...
.
Population
Transport
La Celle-Saint-Cloud is served by two stations on the
Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare
Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare Saint-Lazare in central Paris and serve the north and north-west of Île-de-France region with Transilien ...
suburban rail line: La Celle-Saint-Cloud and Bougival.
Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
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Things to Do in La-Celle-Saint-Cloud Tripadvisor.com. Retrieved 2022-23-03
* Château de Beauregard (only a fragment remains)
*
Pavillon du Butard
The Pavilion du Butard is a hunting lodge in the Forêt de Fausses-Reposes in the territory of La Celle-Saint-Cloud in Yvelines, France. Part of the gardens of Versailles, it was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Louis XV and built between 175 ...
Education
Public preschool and elementary schools in the commune:Maternelles et élémentaires " La Celle-Saint-Cloud. Retrieved on September 2, 2016.
* Groupe scolaire
Jules Ferry
Jules François Camille Ferry (; 5 April 183217 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican philosopher. He was one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans and served as Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 1881 and 1883 to 1885. He ...
*Groupe scolaire
Henri Dunant
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*Groupe Scolaire
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...
*Groupe Scolaire Morel de Vindé
*Groupe Scolaire
Pierre
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et
Marie Curie
Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...
Junior high schools:
* Collège
Victor Hugo
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* Collège
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...
La Celle-Saint-Cloud is the birthplace of the noted Franco-British author
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. H ...
. It was also the home of English actress
Harriet Howard
Harriet Howard, born Elizabeth Ann Haryett (1823–1865) was a mistress and financial backer of Louis-Napoleon, later Napoleon III of France.
London
Elizabeth Ann Haryett was the daughter of a boot-maker and the granddaughter of the owner of t ...
following her affair with
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
Maurice de Hirsch
Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth (german: Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth; french: Maurice, baron de Hirsch de Gereuth; 9 December 1831 – 21 April 1896), commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, was a German Jewish financier and phila ...
.
Lucien-Rene Duchesne
Lucien-Rene Duchesne (9 March 1908, in Paris (15th arrondissement) — 14 October 1984, Le Chesnay), was mayor of la Celle-Saint-Cloud (Yvelines) from 1959 to 1981.
Biography
2nd world war
Made prisoner of war by the Nazis, then he was depo ...
(1908–1984), mayor of La Celle-Saint-Cloud from 1959 to 1981.
French actress and model
Ludivine Sagnier
Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress and model who has appeared on screen since 1989. She was nominated three times for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Swimming Pool'' (2003), '' Peter Pan'' (2003), and ''A ...
(of '' Mesrine: Part 2'' fame) is also a native of La Celle-Saint-Cloud.
Since September 2014, politician Marine Le Pen has resided in the town.
See also
*
Communes of the Yvelines department
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ...