Ivry-sur-Seine

Ivry Sur Seine

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Ivry-sur-Seine

Ivry-sur-Seine is a Francilienne
Île-de-France (région)

?le-de-France is one of the twenty-six administrative regions of France of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area. Created as the "District of the Paris Region" in 1961, it was renamed as the "?le-de-France" r?gion in 1976 when its administrative status was aligned with the other French administrative regions created in 1...
commune of the Val-de-Marne

Val-de-Marne

Val-de-Marne is a France departments of France, named after the Marne River, located in the ?le-de-France regions of France. The department is situated to the southeast of the city of Paris....
, located in the southeastern suburbs of Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. It is located . (3.3 miles) from the center of Paris

Kilometre Zero

In many countries, Kilometre Zero or similar terms in other languages, is a particular location , from which distances are traditionally measured....
.

Paris's Chinatown

Chinatown

A Chinatown is a section of an urban area with a large number of overseas Chinese residents, usually outside of Greater China. Chinatowns are present throughout the world, including those in East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, South America, Australasia, and Europe....
, located in the 13th arrondissment

XIIIe arrondissement

rrondissementnumber=13th|commune=Paris|image=|caption=The Biblioth?que nationale de France in the 13th arrondissement.|map=paris_13e_arr_jms.gif|...
the city which borders the commune of Ivry, has now spread to the northern parts of Ivry. Many overseas Chinese companies and Asian food warehouses are located in Ivry.

inally, Ivry-sur-Seine was called simply Ivry.

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Val-de-Marne

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France

France

Kilometre Zero

In many countries, Kilometre Zero or similar terms in other languages, is a particular location , from which distances are traditionally measured....
.

Paris's Chinatown

Chinatown

XIIIe arrondissement

Name

Originally, Ivry-sur-Seine was called simply Ivry. The name Ivry comes from Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration....
Ivriacum or Ibriacum, perhaps meaning "estate of Eburius (the Latinized form of the Gallic

Gallic

Gallic is an adjective that may refer to:*Gaul, from which the name derives, a region of Europe roughly corresponding to modern France, but also comprising parts of modern northern Italy, Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany....
patronym Eburos)", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

In 1897 the name of the commune officially became Ivry-sur-Seine (meaning "Ivry upon Seine

Seine

The Seine is a slow flowing major river and commercial waterway within Regions of France of ?le-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France and famous as a romantic backdrop in photographs of Paris, France....
"), in order to distinguish it from other communes of France also called Ivry.

History

On January 1, 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occasion, about a third of the commune of Ivry-sur-Seine was annexed to Paris, and now forms the Chinatown area of the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

Ivry-sur-Seine is perhaps most famous as the place of execution of Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry

Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry

Lieutenant Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry was a France military air weaponry engineer who attempted to assassination President of France Charles de Gaulle on 22 August 1962, to try to prevent Algerian War of Independence....
in March 1963. Richard Ellman also notes that James Joyce's

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
daughter, Lucia

Lucia Joyce

Lucia Anna Joyce , daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, was born in Trieste. Italian language was her first language and the language in which she corresponded with her father....
, received psychiatric treatment in the commune's hospital in 1936 and was visited by both Joyce and Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
.

Transport

Ivry-sur-Seine is served by two railway stations on the Paris Métro Line 7

Paris Metro Line 7

Paris M?tro Line 7 is one of 16 Paris m?tro lines of the Paris, France metro. The line links La Courneuve in the north with Ivry and Villejuif in the south....
: Pierre Curie

Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris Métro)

Pierre et Marie Curie is a station on the southeast branch of Paris M?tro Line 7 of the Paris M?tro. The station, located in Ivry-sur-Seine, was opened in 1946....
and Mairie d'Ivry.

The east of the commune is served by Ivry-sur-Seine

Ivry-sur-Seine (Paris RER)

Ivry-sur-Seine is a station in Paris' express suburban rail system, the RER C....
station on Paris RER line C

RER C

The RER C is one of the five lines in the RER Rapid transit system serving Paris, France.The line runs from Gare de Pontoise , Versailles ? Rive Gauche and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Massy-Palaiseau , Dourdan-la-For?t , Saint-Martin d'?tampes and Versailles ? Chantiers ...
with stops at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Bibliothèque nationale de France

The Biblioth?que nationale de France is the National library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France....
and the city centre.

Orly Airport is located to the south of Ivry-sur-Seine.

Images from Ivry

Demographics

Immigration

Notable Ivriens

Pierre Contant d'Ivry
Pierre Contant d'Ivry

Pierre Contant d'Ivry was a French architect and designer working in a chaste and sober Rococo style and in the Go?t grec phase of early Neoclassicism....
(1698-1777), architect born in Ivry-sur-Seine.
Maurice Thorez
Maurice Thorez

Maurice Thorez was a France politician and longtime leader of the French Communist Party from 1930 until his death. He also served as vice premier of France from 1946 to 1947....
, former leader of the French Communist Party, elected deputy for d'Ivry-sur-Seine in 1932 until his death in 1964.
Jean Renaudie, architect and founder of the Atelier de Montrouge who was responsible for the complete renovation of Ivry town centre.
Paul Boccara, economist and historian.
Nicolas Appert
Nicolas Appert

Nicolas Appert , born in Ch?lons en Champagne was the France inventor of airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the "father of canning," was a confectioner....
(1749-1841), inventor, spent a number of years in Ivry-sur-Seine
Jean Ferrat
Jean Ferrat

Jean Ferrat is a France author, poet and singer....
, singer, spent a number of years in Ivry-sur-Seine before settling in Ardèche.
Antoine Spire, sociologist and writer.
Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud was a France playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine , and was among a long list of names which Artaud used throughout his life....
, writer, died in Ivry-sur-Seine on 4 March 1948.
Dany N'Guessan
Dany N'Guessan

Djombo "Dany" N'Guessan is a France professional football currently playing for Lincoln City F.C.....
, footballer, currently playing for Lincoln City in the English Coca Cola League 2
David Ben Soussan, loukoum with kebab sauce inventor, which was a hit in Ivry during the 70's. Now works for "Les délices d'Orient", a famous greek restaurant in front of the local church.

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