Louveciennes () is a

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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 in the

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in north-central

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. It is located in the western suburbs of

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, between

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and

Saint-Germain-en-Laye Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Inhabitants are called ''Saint-Germanois'' or ''Saint-Ge ...

, and adjacent to

Marly-le-Roi Marly-le-Roi () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the administrative region of Île-de-France, France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Marly-le-Roi was the location of the Château de Marly, t ...

Population

Sights

* Many castles from the 17th and 18th century (Chateau des Voisins, Chateau de Madame Du Barry, Chateau du Pont, Chateau du Parc, Chateau des Sources). *The

Château de Louveciennes The Château de Louveciennes in Louveciennes, in the Yvelines département of France, is composed of the château itself, constructed at the end of the 17th century. It was then expanded and redecorated by Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Madame du Barry ...

, built in 1700 by

Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Ver ...

and given to Madame du Barry by

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. *The Louveciennes Aqueduct of the

Machine de Marly The Machine de Marly, also known as the Marly Machine or the Machine of Marly, was a large hydraulic system in Yvelines, France, built in 1684 to pump water from the river Seine and deliver it to the Palace of Versailles.Thompson 2006, p. 251 ...

Image:Louveciennes Château de Voisins.JPG, Chateau of Voisins Image:Louveciennes Château du Pont.JPG, Chateau of Pont

Culture

Louveciennes was frequented by impressionist painters in the 19th century; according to the official site, there are over 120 paintings by

Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Re ...

Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). H ...

Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...

, and

Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

depicting Louveciennes. The composer Camille Saint-Saëns lived in Louveciennes from 1865 to 1870.

Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tro ...

, the most famous female painter of the 18th century, died in Louveciennes on 30 March 1842. Anaïs Nin was a popular Cuban novelist born in Neuilly, an area in Paris and lived in Louveciennes from 1930 to 1936 at 2 bis, rue Montbuisson. The start of her career as an author started in this town. Louis, 7th duc de Broglie,

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and

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laureate, died in Louveciennes 19 March 1987.Extract of page 141
/ref> Orchestra conductor Charles Munch resided in Louveciennes at Place Emile Dreux, in the village of Voisins during the last decade of his life (1958–68). A plaque to that effect has been placed on the residence. Image:Alfred Sisley 002.jpg, ''L'Aqueduc à Marly'' by

Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...

, 1874 Image:Camille Pissarro 012.jpg, ''Entrée du village de Voisins'' by Camille Pissarro, 1872 File:Road to Versailles at Louveciennes 1869 Camille Pissarro.jpg, ''Road to Versailles at Louveciennes'' by Camille Pissarro,

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History

Until 1964, Louveciennes belonged to the former

Seine-et-Oise Seine-et-Oise () was the former department of France encompassing the western, northern and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris.NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

had barracks for

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here from 1959–1967, and the American School of Paris was located nearby from 1959 to 1967.

Transport

Louveciennes is accessible by two Paris metro lines: LINE 17 Saint Nom la Bretèche - Le Chesnay - Versailles Rive Droite and LINE 17S: Maule - Le Chesnay - Versailles Rive Droite. Two bus routes to and from Paris which operate a night service are easily accessible. Lines 55-1 and LINE 55 -2 are used to go to Le Celle Saint Cloud, Bougival, and other western suburbs of Paris.

Economy

After SHAPE left France, the French government allocated the property to CII, which soon thereafter became part of

CII Honeywell Bull Bull SAS (also known as Groupe Bull, Bull Information Systems, or simply Bull) is a French computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General ...

. Groupe Bull still has offices in Louveciennes.

Twin towns

Louveciennes is twinned with: * Radlett,

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, north of

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– since 1983 * Meersburg,

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, at the shores of Lake Constance – since 1991 * Vama,

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, north of

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– since 2000

Notable people

* Christian Braut, musician and photographer *

Marcel Jean Marcel Jean (1900 in La Charité-sur-Loire, France - 4 December 1993 in Louveciennes, France) was a French painter, writer, and sculptor who joined the surrealist movement in 1933. He is perhaps best known for his trompe l'oeil painting ''Armoire ...

, Surrealist painter, writer, and sculptor * Anaïs Nin, author *

, Impressionist painter *

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Le Brun, was a French portrait painter, especially of women, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Her artistic style is generally considered part o ...

, (1755–1842) a prominent portrait painter, official portraitist of Marie Antoinette.

References

External links

Louveciennes official website
(in French)
Church Saint Martin et Saint Blaise de LouveciennesCommittee for partnership between Louveciennes and their twin towns
(in French)
Louveciennes 360 panoramas
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