Clamart

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Clamart
Commune
The Hôtel de Ville
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs
Location of Clamart
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Coordinates: 48°48′05″N 2°15′46″E / 48.8014°N 02.2628°E / 48.8014; 02.2628
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Antony
Canton	Clamart
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2026–32)	Yves Coscas
Area 1	8.77 km2 (3.39 sq mi)
Highest elevation	175 m (574 ft)
Lowest elevation	64 m (210 ft)
Population  (2023)	58,576
• Density	6,680/km2 (17,300/sq mi)
Demonym	Clamartois
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	92023 /92140
Website	www.clamart.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Clamart (French pronunciation: [klamaʁ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is in Hauts-de-Seine, 8.7 km (5.4 mi) from the centre of Paris, on the border with both Essonne and Yvelines.

The town is divided into two parts, separated by a forest (the Bois de Clamart, part of the larger Forêt domaniale de Meudon [fr]): Bas-Clamart, the historical centre, and Petit-Clamart, with urbanisation developed in the 1960s replacing pea fields. The canton of Clamart includes only part of the commune; the other part of the commune belongs to the canton of Le Plessis-Robinson.

It is a relatively wealthy suburb of Paris. It is above Clamart that renowned photographer Nadar took the world's first aerial photograph in 1858.

Geography

History

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 969 —     1800 736 −3.85% 1806 740 +0.09% 1821 1,022 +2.18% 1831 1,225 +1.83% 1836 1,268 +0.69% 1841 1,567 +4.33% 1846 1,564 −0.04% 1851 1,763 +2.42% 1856 2,149 +4.04% 1861 2,751 +5.06% 1866 3,194 +3.03% 1872 3,163 −0.16% 1876 3,640 +3.57% 1881 4,187 +2.84% 1886 5,112 +4.07% 1891 5,491 +1.44% 1896 6,283 +2.73% 1901 7,391 +3.30%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 8,720 +3.36% 1911 11,376 +5.46% 1921 15,916 +3.42% 1926 22,734 +7.39% 1931 31,047 +6.43% 1936 32,427 +0.87% 1946 33,817 +0.42% 1954 37,924 +1.44% 1962 47,991 +2.99% 1968 54,906 +2.27% 1975 52,952 −0.52% 1982 48,353 −1.29% 1990 47,227 −0.29% 1999 48,572 +0.31% 2007 51,000 +0.61% 2012 52,408 +0.55% 2017 52,971 +0.21% 2023 58,576 +1.69%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968–2023)

Panorama

On a former Électricité de France 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. The land had been purchased by the city in 2017, and the project was designed by A26. The first residents moved in during late 2019, and the schools were two thirds full by 2021 when the second phase of construction was underway.

Transport

Clamart is served by Clamart station on the Transilien Line N suburban rail line, which will also become an underground Paris Métro station upon the opening of Line 15 in 2027.

Clamart is also served by Île-de-France tramway Lines 6 and 10. Since opening in 2023 Line 10 has ended at Jardin Parisien south of the Bois the Clamart; a tunnel will extend the line northwards to Clamart station with two intermediate stops under the town centre. The projected opening date is 2032. There are also several bus lines connecting Clamart to neighbouring towns.

Education

Clamart has multiple primary schools, and attendance is determined by one's residence.

Middle schools:

• Collège Alain Founier
• Collège Maison Blanche

High school: Clamart has one single high school, located near the Haut de Clamart: the Lycée Jacques Monod.

Notable people

• Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Palestinian leader, died in the Hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy in 2004.
• Hatem Ben Arfa (born 1987), footballer, was born here.
• Jean Arp (1886–1966) and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), artists, lived in Clamart in the 1930s.
• Pierre Mauroy (1928-2013), French Prime Minister, died in 2013.
• Gabriel Attal (born 1989), French Prime Minister, was born here.
• 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.
• 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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clamart.

• Official website (in French)