Créteil
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Créteil | |
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Prefecture and commune | |
Coordinates: 48°47′28″N 2°27′46″E / 48.7911°N 2.4628°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Île-de-France |
Department | Val-de-Marne |
Arrondissement | Créteil |
Canton | 2 cantons |
Intercommunality | Grand Paris |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Laurent Cathala[1] |
Area 1 | 11.43 km2 (4.41 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 92,989 |
• Density | 8,100/km2 (21,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 94028 /94000 |
Elevation | 31–74 m (102–243 ft) (avg. 63 m or 207 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Créteil (French pronunciation:
Name
The name Créteil was recorded for the first time as Cristoilum in the
Geography
Créteil is a city in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris. It is watered by the Marne river which carries out its last loop before the junction with the Seine at the Charenton-le-Pont. The area is an alluvial plain eroded by the action of the Marne and the Seine. Bordering communes include Maisons-Alfort, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Bonneuil-sur-Marne, Limeil-Brévannes, Valenton, Choisy-le-Roi and Alfortville.
Climate
The climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. According to the
History
Some rare flints from the
During the French Wars of Religion (1567), the Huguenots plundered the church and burned the local charters. New disorders in 1648 forced the evacuation of the inhabitants of Créteil. The end of Louis XIV's reign was marked by a great food shortage throughout the whole of France after a terrible winter in 1709 that resulted in 69 recorded deaths in Créteil. Registers of grievances from the French Revolution in 1789 mention Créteil 15 times.
At the beginning of the 18th century, construction of the first middle-class "Parisian" houses began. In 1814, the east of Créteil was taken by Russian troops as part of the
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 was particularly cruel for Créteil. The borough was plundered and left in ruins by the Prussians, while the nearby battle of Mont-Mesly on 30 November 1870, left 179 dead. Créteil gave up its pastoral character after World War II. The population subsequently rose from 13,800 in 1954 to 30,654 in 1962.
L'Abbaye de Créteil or Abbaye group was a utopian artistic and literary community founded during 1906 named after the Créteil Abbey near to where some members lived and where the group held meetings. At the time Créteil was still mostly pastoral, some of which remains in the forested parkland of the riverside district on and around Ile Sainte-Catherine. Although the group was short-lived, disbanding by 1908, it attracted artists, writers and philosophers to become associated with the
In 1965, the city became a Préfecture of the new department of the Val-de-Marne.
The lake
Créteil Lake began as a gypsum and gravel quarry. Once the groundwater was reached, forming deep ponds, the quarry was abandoned and allowed to fill with water. The lake area is now a popular recreational site attracting fishermen, boaters, wind surfers, etc...
Demographics
Population
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Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5] |
Immigration
Born in metropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France | |||
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73.6% | 26.4% | |||
Born in overseas France |
Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1 | EU-15 immigrants2
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Non-EU-15 immigrants | |
3.9% | 4.8% | 2.2% | 15.5% | |
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as 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), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. 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.2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. 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. |
Health
As of 1 January 2006, 27
Health facilities include:
- CHU Henri Mondor, a publicly owned hospital inaugurated on 2 December 1969. Conceived initially for 1,300 beds, its capacity today is 958 beds. It employs more than 3,000 people including more than 2,600 looking after patients. Its expenditure in 2004 was 241M€.
- Centre hospitalier intercommunal de Créteil, inaugurated on 3 November 1937. Capacity of reception of 530 in-patients as against 264 in 1937. The construction of this establishment was decided in 1932 by grouping the communes of the Bonneuil-sur-Marne, Creteil and Joinville-le-Pont within an inter-communal syndicate. Saint-Maur-des-Fossés joined this syndicate later. Originally, a number of the hospital personnel were religious sisters. In 2004, 38,037 hospitalizations were listed, with 2,551 childbirths and 12,838 surgical interventions. ] It employs approximately 2,000 people with about 1,600 of them caring for patients in medical or other capacities.
- Centre de Transfusion sanguine. The Blood Transfusion Centre of Creteil is run by the inter-communal Hospital. This service treats from 600 to 1,000 requests per day.
- Albert Chenevier Hospital. A publicly owned hospital, with a 463-bed capacity. There are 118 beds in the psychiatric ward.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools:
- 24 preschools[6]
- 24 elementary schools[7]
- Eight junior high schools: Clément Guyard, Victor Hugo, Louis Issaurat, Amédée Laplace, Louis Pasteur, Plaissance, Albert Schweitzer, and Simone-de-Beauvoir[8]
- Four high schools: Lycée Léon Blum, Lycée Édouard Branly, Lycée Gutenberg, and Lycée Antoine de Saint-Exupery[9]
Private schools:
- Ozar HaTorah (Jewish school, includes preschool, elementary school,[10] a junior high school divided into boys' and girls' schools,[8] and a high school divided into boys' and girls' schools[9])
- De Maillé (elementary school,[10] junior high school[8])
- Lycée général et technologique de l'ensemble Sainte-Marie[9]
- Lycée d'enseignement supérieur technique privé SUPTEK[9]
Universities
The city hosts
Transport
Créteil is served by four stations on
Sport
The
Notable people
- Jordan Aboki, basketball player
- Bertrand Amoussou-Guenou, mixed martial artist
- Jacques Barzun, author, historian
- Mathieu Bastareaud, rugby player
- Herve Bazile, footballer
- Maxime Biamou, footballer
- Stephane Caristan, athlete
- Isaia Cordinier, basketball player
- Bruno Coqueran, basketball player
- Eddy de Pretto, singer
- Mohamed Diamé, footballer
- Philippe Di Folco, writer
- Herve Ebanda, footballer
- Sylviane Félix, athlete
- Lina Jacques-Sebastien, athlete
- Madeleine Jurgens, archivist
- Lahaou Konate, basketball player
- Jessie Londas, footballer
- Azrack Mahamat, footballer
- Axel Médéric, figure skater
- Modibo Niakate, basketball player
- Michael Nkololo, footballer
- Fabien Paschal, basketball player
- Marc Raquil, athlete
- Christopher Samba, footballer
- Camille Serme, squash player
- Richard Soumah, footballer
- Sammy Traoré, footballer
- Dan-Axel Zagadou, footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
- Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, France
- Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Gyumri, Armenia
- Kiryat Yam, Israel
- Mataró, Spain
- Loulé, Portugal
- Playa (Havana), Cuba
- Salzgitter, Germany
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Climate Summary for Créteil, France
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Créteil, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "Écoles maternelles ." Créteil. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.
- ^ "Écoles élémentaires ." Créteil. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.
- ^ a b c "Collèges." Créteil. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Lycées." Créteil. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Écoles maternelles et élémentaires privées ." Créteil. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.
- ^ "Chronologie / jumelage". ville-creteil.fr (in French). Créteil. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
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