Clamart
Commune in Île-de-France, France
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Clamart (French pronunciation: [klamaʁ] ⓘ) is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 8.7 km (5.4 mi) from the centre of Paris.
Clamart | |
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 The Hôtel de Ville | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
 Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs | |
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| Coordinates: 48°48′05″N 2°15′46″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Hauts-de-Seine |
| Arrondissement | Antony |
| Canton | Clamart |
| Intercommunality | Grand Paris |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2025–2026) | Yves Coscas[1] |
Area 1 | 8.77 km2 (3.39 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 58,576 |
| • Density | 6,680/km2 (17,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 92023 /92140 |
| Elevation | 64–175 m (210–574 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
The town is divided into two parts, separated by a forest: bas Clamart, the historical centre, and petit Clamart with urbanization developed in the 1960s replacing pea fields. The canton of Clamart includes only a part of the commune. The other part of the commune belongs to the canton of Le Plessis-Robinson.
Geography
Nearest places
History
Les petits pois (peas)
The city name is famous in French gastronomy. A speciality with peas as a side-dish, is called "à la Clamart". Close to Paris and its central marketplace (Les Halles), Clamart's peas were the first of the season.
Hôtel de Ville
The Hôtel de Ville was created from an ancient château which was acquired by the town council in 1842.[3]
De Gaulle assassination attempt
On 22 August 1962 the French President Charles de Gaulle was the target of an assassination attempt organised by the French Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry. As de Gaulle's black Citroën DS 19[4] sped through Petit-Clamart it was met by a barrage of submachine-gun fire. De Gaulle and his entourage, which included his wife, survived the attempt without any casualties or serious injuries while the attempt's perpetrators were subsequently all arrested and put on trial. The leader of the assassination attempt, Jean Bastien-Thiry, was executed by firing squad after his 1963 conviction, and remains the most recent person to be executed by firing squad in France.
Population
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Panorama
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On a former EDF research site, construction on a new urban development (zone d'aménagement concerté or ZAC), overlooking the man-made Panorama Lake (Lac du Panorama) and consisting of new homes, commercial and business space, two schools, and a nursery, began in summer 2018.[7] The land had been purchased by the city in 2017, and the project was designed by A26. The first residents moved in in late 2019, and the schools were two thirds full by 2021 when the second phase of construction was underway.[8]
Transport
Clamart is served by Clamart station on the Transilien Line N suburban rail line. There are also several bus lines connecting Clamart to neighbouring towns.
Education
Notable people
- Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Palestinian leader, died in the Hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy in 2004.
- Hatem Ben Arfa (born 1987 in Clamart), footballer
- Jean Arp (1886–1966) and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), artists, lived in Clamart in the 1930s.[13]
- Pierre Mauroy (1928-2013), French Prime Minister, died in 2013.
- Gabriel Attal (born 1989), French Prime Minister
- Éliane Basse (1899–1985), French paleontologist and geologist, died in Clamart
- Jean Bastien-Thiry (1927–1963), leader of 1962 assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle.
- Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), Russian philosopher and theologian, died here.
- Alexander Blonz (born 2000), Norwegian handball player, lived here the first year of his life.
- Céline Boutier (born 1993), French golfer, was born here.
- Teddy Clairet (born 1993), French racing driver
- Roger Cotte (1921–1999), French recorder player and musicologist, was born in Clamart.
- Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), American artist, moved to Clamart in 1953.
- Julien Kapek (born 1979), French athlete.
- Henri Matisse (1869–1954), French painter, lived in Clamart before the First World War.[14]
- Vincent Poirier (born 1993), French basketball player was born here.
- Owen Tangavelou (born 2005), Vietnamese-French racing driver
- Theofan (Bystrov) (1875–1940), Russian archbishop and theologian, lived here in 1931.
International relations
Clamart is twinned with:
Lüneburg, Germany since 1975
Scunthorpe, United Kingdom, since 1976
Majadahonda, Spain, since 1988
Artashat, Armenia, since 2003
Penamacor, Portugal, since 2006
See also
- Communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department
- The statue La Source in Clamart is by Pierre Charles Lenoir
