Ablon-sur-Seine

Ablon-sur-Seine
Town hall
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring departments
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	Créteil
Canton	Villeneuve-le-Roi
Intercommunality	Orly Rungis Seine Amont
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Éric Grillon
Area1	1.11 km2 (0.43 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	5,171
• Density	4,700/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	94001 / 94480
Elevation	32–85 m (105–279 ft)
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.

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Ablon-sur-Seine is a French commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 15.3 km (9.5 mi) from the centre of Paris.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Ablonais or Ablonaises

The commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.

Geography

Ablon-sur-Seine is an urban commune located some 15 kilometres (9 miles) to the south-east of the centre of Paris immediately to the east of Orly Airport. As it is an urban commune there are numerous roads in the commune with the most important being the D266 going north to the Centre de Finances Publiques and the D29 / D246 / D2498 which run west to east along the south of the commune parallel with the Seine. The main railway from the Gare d'Austerlitz to Bordeaux runs south-west through the commune with the SNCF Ablon Station served by the Regional Express Network (RER) Line C.

The Station at Ablon

The Seine river forms the whole southern border of the commune. The whole of the western border and the Seine are also the border between the Val-de-Marne and Essonne departments. There is no bridge from the commune across the Seine.

History

Ablon-sur-Seine is situated 4 leagues from Paris, that is 10 km (6 mi).

Henri IV, by the Edict of Nantes in March 1598, allowed Protestants to practice their faith outside the walls of Paris. He authorized the construction of a Protestant church at Ablons.

File:Tulle - Ablon - Quai de la Baronnie - Arrivée d'un bateau parisien.JPG

The town was served by a water taxi service to Paris at the beginning of the 20th century

There was a castle built in Ablon by Agnes Sorel and a Protestant church which was frequented until the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the reformed Parisians.

The economic activity Ablon has always been linked to the river but a cropping part of its economy was favoured by its loamy soils. It has been traditionally a residential commune, with the urban area mainly residential.

Heraldry

Blazon: Azure, a fesse wavy of argent charged with 3 bleak fish sable in bend accompanied in chief by an escarbuncle in Or and in base a vine-branch leaved one, fructed one, leaved one all the same.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Ablon-sur-Seine

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1941

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1790	1792	Jean Mathias
1800	1803	Marc Adrien Petit
1803	1817	Jean Mathias
1817	1826	Jacques Antoine de Chambarlhac
1826		François Basile Pochard
1826	1833	Jean Louis Alexis Legrand
1833	1837	Pierre Denis Geuffron
1837	1840	François Denis Mathias
1840	1852	Toussaint Chollet
1852	1855	Philippe Simon
1855	1865	Hippolyte Lechoppie
1865	1878	Joseph Claude Simon
1878	1881	Adolphe Moisset
1881	1904	Amédée Antoine Simon
1904	1907	Adrien Constant Marc
1907	1908	Henry Magnier
1908	1919	Alphonse Louis Maurice Herold
1919	1925	André Clément Hippolyte Mottu
1925	1929	Henri Magnier
1929	1941	Edouard Désiré Juvigny

Mayors from 1941

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1941	1944	Arsène Victor Arsicault
1944	1945	Edouard Désiré Juvigny
1945	1983	Alain Poher	MRP	Senator, President of the Senate (1968-1992), Interim President of France (1969 & 1974), President of Association of Mayors of France, President of the EU
1983	2008	Jean-Pierre Hermelin	UMP
2008	2012	Dean-Louis Cohen	PS
2012	2014	Corinne Gorlier
2014	2020	Éric Grillon

(Not all data is known)

Twinning

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

Ablon-sur-Seine has twinning associations with:

• Penkridge (United Kingdom) since 1986
• Neubiberg (Germany) since 1975.

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 5,171 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
208	209	236	172	224	294	307	338	305

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
344	446	474	490	531	600	688	782	896

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
1,332	1,420	1,463	1,898	2,000	2,246	2,193	2,637	3,220

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
5,086	5,692	5,531	5,264	4,938	4,867	5,171	5,171	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Population of Ablon-sur-Seine

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has many buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• A House at 16 Rue du Bac (19th century)
• A House at 16ter Rue du Bac (19th century)
• A House at 33bis Rue du Bac (19th century)
• The Station Cafe-Restaurant at 37 Rue du Bac (19th century)
• A Building at 42 Rue du Bac (19th century)
• The Boulangerie Pelloile at 35 Quai de la Baronne (19th century)
• A Building at 3 Place Chollet (1896)
• The Chateau Corpet at Sentier de la Courre aux Lièvres (1884)
• A House at 15 Rue Edouard Juvigny (19th century)
• A Chateau at 5 Rue de l'Eglise (1348)
• The Chateau Magne at Rue d'Estienne d'Orves (1856)
• A Railway Station at Rue Gabriel Péri (20th century)
• The War Memorial at Rue du Général de Gaulle (1922)
• A Cafe-Restaurant at 10 Rue du Général de Gaulle (19th century)
• A House at 15 Place Henri Duru (1893)
• A Railway Station at Place de la Libération (19th century)
• A Weir with Lock at Quai Magné (1863)
• The Town Hall / Groupe Scolaire Pasteur School at 17 Rue du Maréchal Foch (1883)
• Twinned Houses at 25-27 Rue Simon (19th century)
• The Pont du Diable (Devil's Bridge) at Route de Villeneuve (20th century)
• Houses and Buildings (19th-20th centuries)
• A House (20th century)
• Ancient Town Remains (12th-20th centuries)

Religious heritage

• The Parish Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (1842) is regisytered as an historical monument. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:

• A Painting: Christ before the Sanhedrin (16th century)
• A Tombstone for Philippe de Douzonville (1458)
• A Ciborium (19th century)
• A Sunburst Monstrance (19th century)
• A Chalice with Paten (20th century)
• A Chalice with Paten (1) (19th century)
• A Painting: Descent from the Cross (19th century)
• A Painting: Saint Geneviève (18th century)
• A Painting: Jesus before the Sanhedrin (17th century)
• A Baptismal font (18th century)
• A Tombstone (15th century)

Education

There is one private school called Sacred Heart.

Cultural events and festivals

From 2001 to 2008, Ablon has organised various cultural events. An independent association, It was once Ablon, organised these events to enable people to experience the history of the town and its inhabitants arouse a community spirit in Ablon people. Some events have left their mark on the town including the grand historical rally with themes such as "Discovering neighbourhoods", "the old trades of Ablon", "a Castle Mystery", etc..

Other cultural activities include the festival "Your Neighbours Have Talent", which hosted painters, sculptors, photographers, and musicians from the region. This festival also hosted young artists from the National Conservatory of Paris, artists, and recent graduates from fine art schools.

Another event highly appreciated by all generations of the city was cyber-Ablon, organized over a whole weekend. This event allowed the even the oldest people to learn office skills such as Internet browsing, email, Word, Excel etc. and for younger ones to come together for network games.

For 8 March, the association proposed an event to mark the International Day of Women's Rights (films, exhibition of paintings and photographs, conferences etc.). The municipal council took this activity under consideration.

Dormant since 2008, the life of the association has been suspended.

Picture Gallery

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  Ablon Railway Station

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  Ablon Station platforms

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  Chinese House

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  Chinese House

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  Chinese House

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  The weir at Ablon-sur-Seine

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  The House at 16ter Rue de Bac

Notable people linked to the commune

• Jacques-Antoine de Chambarlhac de Laubespin, born at Les Estables 2 August 1754, died in Paris 23 February 1826, a General of the Empire
• Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682-1749) owned a house in Ablon where she loved to come on holiday
• Alain Poher (1909-1996), former president of the Senate, born in Ablon he was Mayor from 1946 to 1983

See also

• Communes of the Val-de-Marne department

External links

• Ablon-sur-Seine official website (French)
• Ablon-sur-Seine on Lion1906
• Ablon-sur-Seine on Google Maps
• Ablon-sur-Seine on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Ablon on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Ablon-sur-Seine on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)