Juvisy-sur-Orge
Juvisy-sur-Orge | |
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 The Camille Flammarion Observatory in Juvisy-sur-Orge | |
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Location of Juvisy-sur-Orge  | |
  Juvisy-sur-Orge  Juvisy-sur-Orge | |
| Coordinates: 48°41′20″N 2°22′42″E / 48.6889°N 2.3783°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Essonne |
| Arrondissement | Palaiseau |
| Canton | Athis-Mons |
| Intercommunality | Grand Paris |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Lamia Bensarsa Reda[1] |
Area 1 | 2.24 km2 (0.86 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 18,978 |
| • Density | 8,500/km2 (22,000/sq mi) |
| Demonym | French: juvisien(ne) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 91326 /91260 |
| Elevation | 32–92 m (105–302 ft) (avg. 36 m or 118 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Juvisy-sur-Orge (French pronunciation: [ʒyvizi syʁ ɔʁʒ] ⓘ, literally Juvisy on Orge) is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located 18 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Paris and a few kilometres south of Orly Airport.
The city is known for Gare de Juvisy, the fourth largest and most-frequented railway station in the Grand Paris.[citation needed]
Geography
[edit]Juvisy-sur-Orge is located 18 kilometres (11 mi) south of Paris, in the Grand Paris (Greater Paris), and is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Évry. Neighboring communes are:
Transportation
[edit]Motorists can reach Juvisy-sur-Orge via National Road N°.7 (Route nationale 7). Rail service to the city is by Juvisy station (Gare de Juvisy) on Paris RER (Réseau express régional, i.e., Regional Express Network) lines C and D.
History
[edit]People have occupied the site of Juvisy-sur-Orge since ancient times; Julius Caesar notes it in Commentarii de Bello Gallico, his book about the Gallic Wars (58–50 BC) published between 58 and 49 BC. Centuries later, it became an important place under the French monarchy, as a royal hotel. It also served as a post relay, the first one on the road to Fontainebleau. In 1740 a pyramid was erected in Juvisy-sur-Orge to memorialize the work of Jean Picard (1620–1682) and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713–1762) in measuring the Earth's circumference.
Juvisy-sur-Orge's railway station, Juvisy station, was built in 1840, and the city became a major road and railway junction in the 1840s. In 1883, the city became the location of astronomer Camille Flammarion's observatory, which today belongs to the Société astronomique de France. In 1893, Juvisy-sur-Orge became the first city in the Paris region with a bridge crossing the river Seine.
In May 1909 a venue for aviation races and exhibitions, Port-Aviation, opened to the public in neighboring Viry-Châtillon as the world's first purpose-built aerodrome. Although the airfield did not lie in Juvisy-sur-Orge, most of the general public attending events at Port-Aviation arrived from Paris by rail at Juvisy station, just under a kilometre (0.6 mile) from the airfield in Juvisy-sur-Orge; moreover, the railway station had a sign directing visitors to "Juvisy Airfield." This led the press and post card publishers habitually to refer to Port-Aviation by the misnomer "Juvisy Airfield" and to aviation events there as taking place in "Juvisy" or "Juvisy-sur-Orge." The misnomer "Juvisy Airfield" and the inaccurate association of Juvisy-sur-Orge with the location of Port-Aviation have persisted ever since.[3]
Most of Juvisy-sur-Orge was destroyed in April 1944 by an Allied bombing raid during World War II, which targeted the city because it was the only one in the vicinity of Paris with such a large railway station and had railway lines going to most of France's major cities. It was rebuilt between 1945 and the 1970s.
Juvisy-sur-Orge is the burial site of author Raymond Queneau (1903–1976), who also is memorialized in the name of the city's Bibliothèque-Médiathèque Raymond Queneau.[4]
Population
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 12,628 | — |
| 1975 | 13,671 | +1.14% |
| 1982 | 12,305 | −1.49% |
| 1990 | 11,818 | −0.50% |
| 1999 | 11,937 | +0.11% |
| 2007 | 14,153 | +2.15% |
| 2012 | 15,188 | +1.42% |
| 2017 | 16,667 | +1.88% |
| Source: INSEE[5] | ||
Notable people
[edit]- Jean-Jacques Annaud (b. 1943), film director, producer, and screenwriter[6]
- Emmanuelle Charpentier (b. 1968), professor, microbiologist, biochemist, and geneticist, 2020 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing through CRISPR
- Christophe (1945–2020), singer[7]
- Amedy Coulibaly (1982–2015), one of three perpetrators in the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks[8]
- Ouparine Djoco (b. 1998), footballer
- Ladji Doucouré (b. 1983), track and field athlete
- Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), astronomer
- Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), astronomer
- Alexandre Prémat (b. 1982), motor racing driver
- Ferdinand Quénisset (1872–1951), astronomer
- Sophian Rafai (b. 1986), basketball player
- Habib Sissoko (b. 1971), footballer
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
- ^ Port-Aviation: Premier aérodrome organisé au monde [Port Aviation: First Organized Aerodrome in the World] (PDF) (in French). Viry-Châtillon, France: Ville de Viry-Châtillon. March 2024. pp. 11–12, 15. Retrieved 23 May 2025.
- ^ Landru, Philippe (31 December 2008). "JUVISY-SUR-ORGE (91) : ancien cimetière". Landru Cimetieres (in French). Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ Riggs, Thomas (2001). Contemporary theatre, film, and television. Gale Research Company. p. 6. ISBN 9780787651091.
- ^ "Efemérides de la música popular, 13 de octubre". Efe Eme (in Spanish). 13 October 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ Birnbaum, Michael (9 January 2015). "Who is kosher market suspect Amedy Coulibaly?". Washington Post. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
External links
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- Official website (in French)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- Mayors of Essonne Association (in French)
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