Villejuif

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Villejuif
Commune
The church of Saint-Cyr – Sainte-Julitte
Coat of arms of Villejuif
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring departments
Paris and inner ring departments
Country France
Region Île-de-France
Department Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement L'Haÿ-les-Roses
Canton Villejuif
Intercommunality Grand Paris
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Pierre Garzon[1] (PCF)
Area1 5.34 km2 (2.06 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)2 Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'.
INSEE/Postal code 94076 / 94800
Elevation 62–130 m (203–427 ft)
Website [1]
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Villejuif (French pronunciation: [vilʒɥif] ( listen)) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 7 km (4.3 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Name

The earliest reference to Villejuif appears in a bill signed by the Pope Callixtus II on 27 November 1119. It refers to Villa Judea, the Latinized version of the Old French expression meaning 'Jewish settlement'. During the following centuries, the toponym appears as Villejuifve, that is, following the archaic French spelling of the expression with the same meaning, cognate to modern French Villejuive. The French author from the 17th century Louis Moréri indicates that the settlement was founded by Jews expelled from Paris. This idea, however, remains speculative as available medieval Christian and Jewish sources do not mention the existence of the Jewish community in this place.

Geography

Climate

Villejuif has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Villejuif is 12.4 °C (54.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 670.1 mm (26.38 in) with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 20.5 °C (68.9 °F), and lowest in December, at around 4.9 °C (40.8 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Villejuif was 40.5 °C (104.9 °F) on 6 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −12.2 °C (10.0 °F) on 8 February 1991.

Demographics

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1793 1,362 —    
1800 1,137 −2.55%
1806 1,320 +2.52%
1821 1,278 −0.22%
1831 1,377 +0.75%
1836 1,652 +3.71%
1841 1,503 −1.87%
1846 1,587 +1.09%
1851 1,514 −0.94%
1856 1,559 +0.59%
1861 1,813 +3.06%
1866 2,308 +4.95%
1872 1,917 −3.05%
1876 2,117 +2.51%
1881 2,678 +4.81%
1886 3,163 +3.39%
1891 4,294 +6.30%
1896 5,234 +4.04%
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1901 5,835 +2.20%
1906 6,600 +2.49%
1911 8,671 +5.61%
1921 11,725 +3.06%
1926 18,751 +9.85%
1931 25,192 +6.08%
1936 27,540 +1.80%
1946 25,359 −0.82%
1954 29,280 +1.81%
1962 46,116 +5.84%
1968 51,120 +1.73%
1975 55,606 +1.21%
1982 52,448 −0.83%
1990 48,405 −1.00%
1999 47,384 −0.24%
2007 51,410 +1.02%
2012 56,504 +1.91%
2017 54,753 −0.63%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968–2017)[4]

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Villejuif in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France
76.1% 23.9%
Born in
Overseas France		 Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants
2.8% 2.9% 5.6% 12.6%
¹This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
²An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Transport

Villejuif is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 7: Villejuif – Léo Lagrange, Villejuif – Paul Vaillant-Couturier, and Villejuif – Louis Aragon.

Notable people

  • Camille Loiseau, the oldest person in France from 26 March 2005 to 12 August 2006, died in Villejuif aged 114
  • Komitas, Armenian priest, musicologist and composer, died here
  • David Bret, Anglo-French biographer.

Hospitals

Villejuif has several hospitals on its territory :

Education

13 preschools, 11 elementary schools, and five junior high schools (Collège Aimé-Césaire, Collège Guy-Môquet, Collège Jean Lurçat, Collège Karl Marx, Collège Pasteur) are in Villejuif. Lycée intercommunal Darius-Milhaud (in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre) serves Villejuif.[5]

Other institutions:

Twin towns – sister cities

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See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Villejuif is twinned with:[6]

See also

References

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External links

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  3. ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Villejuif, EHESS. Script error: No such module "In lang".
  4. ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  5. ↑ "Etablissements scolaires." Villejuif. Retrieved on 23 June 2015.
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