Chaville

Chaville
Commune
The town hall of Chaville
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs
Location of Chaville
Chaville Chaville
Coordinates: 48°48′31″N 2°11′19″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Boulogne-Billancourt
Canton	Meudon
Intercommunality	Grand Paris; EPT Grand Paris Seine Ouest
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Jacques Guillet
Area 1	3.55 km2 (1.37 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	19,991
• Density	5,600/km2 (15,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC 01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	92022 /92370
Elevation	63–173 m (207–568 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chaville (French pronunciation: [ʃavil] ) is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies some 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from the centre of Paris in the south-western suburbs of the French capital.

Geography

Chaville is bordered by the following communes (clockwise from the north):

• Sèvres
• Meudon
• Vélizy-Villacoublay
• Viroflay
• Ville-d'Avray.

Roughly 44% of the territory of the commune, situated between the forest of Meudon to the south-east and the forest of Fausses-Reposes to the north-west, is wooded.

History

Chaville was founded in the 9th century by Inchadus, Bishop of Paris. The earliest recorded form of the name is Inchadi villa.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 537 —     1800 537 0.00% 1806 650 3.23% 1821 794 1.34% 1831 1,385 5.72% 1836 1,526 1.96% 1841 1,562 0.47% 1846 1,770 2.53% 1851 1,806 0.40% 1856 1,822 0.18% 1861 2,330 5.04% 1866 2,543 1.76% 1872 2,310 −1.59% 1876 2,361 0.55% 1881 2,564 1.66% 1886 2,924 2.66% 1891 2,842 −0.57% 1896 3,028 1.28%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 3,633 3.71% 1906 3,758 0.68% 1911 4,321 2.83% 1921 6,465 4.11% 1926 8,727 6.18% 1931 10,948 4.64% 1936 12,474 2.64% 1946 13,226 0.59% 1954 14,508 1.16% 1962 16,787 1.84% 1968 17,476 0.67% 1975 19,086 1.27% 1982 17,914 −0.90% 1990 17,784 −0.09% 1999 17,966 0.11% 2007 18,576 0.42% 2012 19,343 0.81% 2017 20,520 1.19%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Transport

Chaville is located on route D910 between Paris and Versailles. It is served by three railway stations and one bus line:

• Gare de Chaville-Rive-Droite, on the Transilien suburban rail line from Paris-Saint-Lazare to Versailles-Rive-Droite
• Gare de Chaville-Rive-Gauche, on the Transilien suburban rail line from Paris-Montparnasse to Rambouillet
• Chaville-Vélizy station on Paris RER line C
• RATP Bus line 171

Education

As of 2016 there are five preschools (maternelles) with 730 students total: Les Iris, Les Jacinthes, Le Muguet, Les Myosotis, and Les Pâquerettes As of the same year there are three elementary schools with 1,000 students total: Anatole France, Paul Bert, and Ferdinand Buisson. There is one junior high school, Collège Jean Moulin de Chaville.

It is served by the public high school/sixth-form college Lycée Jean Pierre Vernant in Sèvres.

Twin towns

• Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany
• Barnet, London, England, United Kingdom
• Settimo Torinese, Piedmont, Italy
• Thanh Hóa, Vietnam
• Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, United States

See also

• Communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department

External links

• Chaville website (in French)