For other places with the same name, see Clichy. Coordinates: 48°54′10″N 2°18′15″E / 48.90278, 2.30417
Clichy (sometimes unofficially Clichy-la-Garenne) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 6.4 km (4 miles) from the center of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe.
The headquarters of the L'Oréal Group, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty, Bic, one of the biggest pen producers in the world, and Sony France, the world's leading company in electronics and music, are located in Clichy.
Name
The name Clichy was recorded for the first time in the 6th century as Clippiacum, later corrupted into Clichiacum, meaning "estate of Cleppius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.
In the 13th century, the plain of Clichy was used as a garenne (a word which gave English warren), i.e. a hunting park, a game preserve for the exclusive use of the king or a lord, and so Clichy became known as Clichy-la-Garenne ("Clichy the Warren").
Between 1793 and 1795, during the French Revolution, Clichy-la-Garenne was renamed Clichy-la-Patriote (meaning "Clichy the Patriot"), perhaps because the word garenne reminded of the feudal privileges abolished in 1789.
After the Revolution, the French administration officially recorded the name of the commune as Clichy only, dropping the "la-Garenne". This is still the case today. However, in many instances the municipality of Clichy refers to the commune as Clichy-la-Garenne, although this is not the official name.
History
Clichy was the capital of the Merovingians during the rule of Dagobert I.
In 1830, part of the territory of Clichy was detached and became the commune of Batignolles-Monceau. On January 1, 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. Most of Batignolles-Monceau was annexed by the city of Paris, and now forms the major part of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, although a small part of the territory of Batignolles-Monceau was returned to Clichy.
On January 11, 1867, part of the territory of Clichy was detached and merged with a part of the territory of Neuilly-sur-Seine to create the commune of Levallois-Perret.
Demographics
Immigration
Place of birth of residents of Clichy in 1999
| Born in Metropolitan France |
Born outside Metropolitan France |
| 70.9% |
29.1% |
Born in
Overseas France |
Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ |
EU-15 immigrants² |
Non-EU-15 immigrants |
| 2.4% |
2.6% |
4.1% |
20.0% |
¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from 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 as of 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.
² An 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. |
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Administration
The canton covers a part of the commune, the other part is in the northern part of Levallois-Perret
Twinnings
 Heidenheim, Germany (1959)
 Sankt Pölten, Austria (1968)
 Santo Tirso, Portugal (1991)
 Rubí, Barcelona, Spain (2005)
 Southwark, England, United Kingdom (2005)
Decentralized Cooperation
 Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal (2004)
 Douala, Cameroon (2006)
Transport
Clichy is served by Mairie de Clichy station on Paris Métro Line 13
It is also served by Clichy – Levallois station on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.
Persons
- Vincent de Paul
- Claude Debussy, French composer
- Georges Bizet, French composer
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
- La Goulue, French Cancan dancer
- Henry Miller, American writer
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine, French writer
- Jacques Mesrine, French criminal
- Marina Vlady, French actress
- Pierre Bérégovoy, French Socialist politician
- Jacques Delors, French Socialist politician
- Fred Chichin, French rock musician
- French épée fencer Érik Boisse was born in Clichy-la-Garenne on March 14, 1980.
- Marianne Pearl, French journalist and widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.
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Railroad station of Clichy
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