Arcueil () is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
Name
The name Arcueil was recorded for the first time in 1119 as Arcoloï, and later in the 12th century as Arcoïalum, meaning "place of the arches" (Latin radical arcus, "arch", and Celtic suffix -ialo, "clearing, glade", "place of"), in reference to the Roman aqueduct carrying water to the Roman city of Lutetia (modern Paris).
History
The arches of the Roman aqueduct crossed the Bièvre valley near Arcueil and are still visible at the Chateau des Arcs.
Between 1613 and 1624 a bridge-aqueduct over . long was constructed to convey water from the spring of Rungis, south of Arcueil, across the river Bièvre to the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. Between 1868 and 1872 another aqueduct, still longer, was superimposed above that of the 17th century, forming part of the system conveying water from the river Vanne to Paris.
The commune of Arcueil was officially renamed Arcueil-Cachan in 1894, after the hamlet of Cachan located within the commune. On 26 December 1922, Cachan seceded from the commune of Arcueil-Cachan and became a commune in its own right. The reduced commune of Arcueil-Cachan was renamed simply Arcueil.
Economy Orange France, formerly France Télécom S.A., had its registered address in Arcueil.
La Compagnie (DreamJet SAS) formerly was headquartered in Arcueil.
Geography The commune of Arcueil covers an area of . Its highest elevation is , its lowest point is .
Arcueil is served by two stations on Paris RER line B: Laplace and Arcueil-Cachan.
Education Primary schools: Five preschools: Henri Barbusse, Danielle Casanova, Jules Ferry, Olympe de Gouges, and Pauline Kergomard Five elementary schools: Henri Barbusse, Jules Ferry, Olympe de Gouges, Aimé Césaire, and Jean Macé
There is one junior high school, Collège Dulcie September and an engineering College, the École supérieure d'ingénieurs des travaux de la construction de Paris.
Residents are served by the Lycée intercommunal Darius-Milhaud in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre."Les lycéens du boycottent les cours Kremlin-Bicêtre" (Archive). Le Parisien. 24 September 2004. "Pour les soutenir dans leur nouveau combat, les élus en charge de la jeunesse des quatre villes dont dépend le lycée – Gentilly, Villejuif, Arcueil et Le Kremlin-Bicêtre – avaient fait le déplacement."
Personalities Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589), member of the "Pléiade".Arcueil, rue d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Arcueil: Centre Culturel Communal Erik Satie, 2006 Adrienne Bolland (1895–1975), first woman to fly an airplane across the Andes, was born in Arcueil. Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), chemist. Michel Bulteau, writer and cult film maker, is a native of Arcueil. Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857), a prominent mathematician, fled to Arcueil from Paris with his royalist parents during the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Pierre and Marie Curie installed at Arcueil an annex of the Institut du Radium for the chemical treatment of radioactive elements. Jean-Paul Gaultier, fashion designer. Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) also called "Douanier Rousseau", notable naive painter. The Marquis de Sade, writer and libertine. Erik Satie, composer, lived in Arcueil from 1898 to 1925.Robert Orledge, Satie the Composer, Cambridge University Press 1990 p.6 He is buried in the town. Dulcie September, of the African National Congress, lodged in Arcueil while living in France; an Arcueil high school is named after her.
Population Data before 1922 in the table and graph below refer to the old commune Arcueil(-Cachan), before the commune of Cachan was separated.
See also Society of Arcueil Communes of the Val-de-Marne department French Wiki article on the history of the 3 aqueducts
References
External links Official website Arcueil Business Theatre