Clamart

Clamart is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
The town is divided into two parts, separated by a forest: bas Clamart, the historical centre, and petit Clamart with urbanization developed in the 1960s replacing pea fields. The canton of Clamart includes only a part of the commune. The other part of the commune belongs to the canton of Le Plessis-Robinson.
Geography
Nearest places
Fontenay-aux-Roses
Issy-les-Moulineaux
Vanves
Meudon
Le Plessis-Robinson
Sèvres
History
Les petits pois (peas)
The city name is famous in French gastronomy. A speciality with peas as a side-dish, is called "à la Clamart". Close to Paris and its central marketplace (Les Halles), Clamart's peas were the first of the season.
De Gaulle assassination attempt
On 22 August 1962 the French President Charles de Gaulle was the target of an assassination attempt organised by the French Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry. As de Gaulle's black Citroën DS 19 sped through Petit-Clamart it was met by a barrage of submachine-gun fire. De Gaulle and his entourage, which included his wife, survived the attempt without any casualties or serious injuries while the attempt's perpetrators were subsequently all arrested and put on trial. The leader of the assassination attempt, Jean Bastien-Thiry, was executed by firing squad after his 1963 conviction, and was the last person to be executed by firing squad in France.
Population
Transport
Clamart is served by Clamart station on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line. 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
Personalities
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Palestinian leader, died in the Hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy in 2004.
Hatem Ben Arfa (born 1987 in Clamart) footballer
Jean Arp (1886–1966)) and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943) lived in Clamart in the 1930s.
Éliane Basse (1899–1985), 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), golfer, was born here.
Roger Cotte (1921–1999), recorder player and musicologist, was born in Clamart.
Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), American artist, moved to Clamart in 1953.
Julien Kapek (born 1979), athlete.
Henri Matisse (1869–1954), painter, lived in Clamart before the First World War.
Vincent Poirier (born 1993), basketball player was born here.
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
New residents' welcome website
Communes of Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
New Classical architecture
New Urbanism communities