Orly () is a
commune in the southern suburbs of
Paris,
ĂŽle-de-France. It is located from the
center of Paris.
The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of
Aurelius
The gens Aurelia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, which flourished from the third century BC to the latest period of the Empire. The first of the Aurelian gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Aurelius Cotta in 252 BC. From then to ...
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Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly,
which gave its name to the airport.
Population
Transport
Orly is served by two stations on Paris
RER line C:
Les Saules and
Orly-Ville.
Education
Schools in Orly:
[Etablissements scolaires]
" Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
* Preschools (''écoles maternelles''): Cité Jardins,
Jean Moulin, Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard,
Romain Rolland
* Elementary schools (''écoles élémentaires''): Cité Jardins, Centre, Jean Moulin, Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin A and B, Paul Eluard A and B, Romain Rolland A and B
* Junior high schools: Collège Dorval and Collège Desnos
* One senior high school/sixth-form college:
Lycée des métiers Armand Guillaumin
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children betwee ...
Lycée Guillaume Apollinaire, a senior high/sixth-form in
Thiais; and
Lycée Georges Brassens, a senior high/sixth-form in
Villeneuve-le-Roi, are nearby.
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Personalities
* Kery James, rapper
*Dry
Dry or dryness most often refers to:
* Lack of rainfall, which may refer to
** Arid regions
** Drought
* Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of selling, serving, or imbibing alcoholic beverages
* Dry humor, deadpan
* Dryness (medica ...
, rapper
*Jean Fernand
Jean Fernand (born 19 November 1948) is a French impressionist painter, lithographer, sculptor and illustrator.
History
Jean Fernand was born in 1948 in Orly, south of Paris. His parents, who were Parisians, managed an industrial laundry. W ...
, an impressionist painter
See also
* Communes of the Val-de-Marne department
References
External links
Orly city council website
Communes of Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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