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{{redirect|Petit Clamart|the 1962 assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle|Petit-Clamart attack}}
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{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Clamart
|commune status         = [[Communes of France|Commune]]
|image                  = Mairie de clamart.jpg
|caption                = The [[Hôtel de Ville, Clamart|Hôtel de Ville]]
|image coat of arms     = Blason ville fr Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine).svg
|map                    = Clamart map.svg
|map caption            = [[Paris]] and inner ring départements
|coordinates            = {{coord|48.8014|02.2628|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|arrondissement         = Antony
|canton                 = Clamart
|INSEE                  = 92023
|postal code            = 92140
|mayor                  = Yves Coscas<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=12 March 2025|language=fr}}</ref>
|term                   = 2025&ndash;2026
|party                  = 
|intercommunality       = [[Grand Paris]]
|elevation m            =
|elevation min m        = 64
|elevation max m        = 175
|area km2               = 8.77
|population             = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date        = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}

'''Clamart''' ({{IPA|fr|klamaʁ|-|Fr-Paris--Clamart.ogg}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the southwestern suburbs of [[Paris]], [[France]]. It is located {{convert|8.7|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the [[Kilometre Zero|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 cuisine|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.

===Hôtel de Ville===
The [[Hôtel de Ville, Clamart|Hôtel de Ville]] was created from an ancient château which was acquired by the town council in 1842.<ref>{{Base Mérimée|IA92000036}}</ref>

=== De Gaulle assassination attempt ===
{{Main|Petit-Clamart attack}}
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|Citroën DS 19]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081214080344/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907992,00.html "Objective: De Gaulle"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 9 October 1973</ref> 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 [[Jean Bastien-Thiry#Arrest and trial|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==

{{Historical populations
| align = none
| cols = 2
| percentages = pagr
| source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|9588|Clamart}}</ref> and INSEE (1968-2017)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-92023#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
| graph-pos = bottom
|1793 |969
|1800 |736
|1806 |740
|1821 |1022
|1831 |1225
|1836 |1268
|1841 |1567
|1846 |1564
|1851 |1763
|1856 |2149
|1861 |2751
|1866 |3194
|1872 |3163
|1876 |3640
|1881 |4187
|1886 |5112
|1891 |5491
|1896 |6283
|1901 |7391
|1906 |8720
|1911 |11376
|1921 |15916
|1926 |22734
|1931 |31047
|1936 |32427
|1946 |33817
|1954 |37924
|1962 |47991
|1968 |54906
|1975 |52952
|1982 |48353
|1990 |47227
|1999 |48572
|2007 |51000
|2012 |52408
|2017 |52971
}}

==Panorama==
[[File:Immeuble Quartier Panorama - Clamart (FR92) - 2023-02-05 - 1.jpg|thumb|New urban development (ZAC) in the Panorama district.]]

On a former EDF research site, construction on a new urban development (zone d'aménagement concerté or ZAC), overlooking the man-made Panorama Lake (Lac du Panorama) and consisting of new homes, commercial and business space, two schools, and a nursery, began in summer 2018.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.leparisien.fr/hauts-de-seine-92/clamart-top-depart-pour-le-futur-quartier-sur-l-ancienne-friche-edf-29-06-2018-7800708.php|title=Clamart : top départ pour le futur quartier sur l'ancienne friche EDF|journal=Le Parisien|author=A.L.|date=29 June 2018|accessdate=15 December 2023|lang=fr}}</ref> The land had been purchased by the city in 2017, and the project was designed by A26. The first residents moved in in late 2019, and the schools were two thirds full by 2021 when the second phase of construction was underway.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.lesechos.fr/pme-regions/ile-de-france/le-panorama-nouveau-quartier-de-clamart-continue-de-pousser-2040212|title=Le Panorama, nouveau quartier de Clamart, continue de pousser|journal=Les Echos|first=Catherine|last=Bocquet|accessdate=15 December 2023|lang=fr}}{{subscription required}}</ref>

== Transport ==
Clamart is served by [[Clamart station]] on the [[Transilien Paris &ndash; Montparnasse]] suburban rail line. There are also several [[Buses|bus lines]] connecting Clamart to neighbouring towns.

== Education ==
Clamart has multiple primary schools, and attendance is determined by one's residence.<ref>" 
[http://www.clamart.fr/fileadmin/clamart/MEDIA/Themes/Enfance/Scolarite/2013-2014-perimetre-scolaire.pdf 2013-2014 perimetre scolaire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904035050/http://www.clamart.fr/fileadmin/clamart/MEDIA/Themes/Enfance/Scolarite/2013-2014-perimetre-scolaire.pdf |date=2014-09-04 }}." Clamart. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.</ref>

Middle schools:
* Collège Alain Founier<ref>"[http://www.education.gouv.fr/annuaire/92-hauts-de-seine/clamart/college/college-alain-fournier.html Collège Alain Founier] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911145449/http://www.education.gouv.fr/annuaire/92-hauts-de-seine/clamart/college/college-alain-fournier.html |date=2016-09-11 }}." [[French Ministry of Education]]. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.</ref>
* Collège Maison Blanche<ref>[http://www.clg-maisonblanche-clamart.ac-versailles.fr/ Home]. Collège Maison Blanche. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.</ref>

High school: Clamart has one single high school, located near the ''haut de Clamart'': the [[Lycée Jacques Monod (Clamart)|Lycée Jacques Monod]]<ref>[http://www.lyc-monod-clamart.ac-versailles.fr/ Home]. Lycée Jacques Monod. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.</ref>''

== Notable people ==
* [[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), artists, lived in Clamart in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/glimpses-of-jean-arps-world/|title = Glimpses of Jean Arp's World |work=[[The New York Times]] |date = 14 February 2013}}</ref>
* [[Gabriel Attal]] (born 1989), French Prime Minister
* [[Éliane Basse]] (1899–1985), French 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), French golfer, was born here.
* [[Roger Cotte]] (1921–1999), French recorder player and musicologist, was born in Clamart.
* [[Beauford Delaney]] (1901–1979), American artist, moved to Clamart in 1953.
* [[Julien Kapek]] (born 1979), French athlete.
* [[Henri Matisse]] (1869–1954), French painter, lived in Clamart before the [[First World War]].<ref>Gertrude Stein, ''[[The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]]'', New York City: The Bodeley Head, Reprint: London: Penguin Classic, 2001, p. 102</ref>
* [[Vincent Poirier]] (born 1993), French basketball player was born here.
* [[Owen Tangavelou]] (born 2004), Vietnamese-French racing driver
* [[Theofan (Bystrov)]] (1875–1940), Russian archbishop and theologian, lived here in 1931.

== International relations ==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in France}}

Clamart is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Lüneburg]], [[Germany]] since 1975
*{{flagicon|UK}} [[Scunthorpe]], [[United Kingdom]], since 1976
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Majadahonda]], [[Spain]], since 1988
*{{flagicon|Armenia}} [[Artashat, Armenia|Artashat]], [[Armenia]], since 2003
*{{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Penamacor]], [[Portugal]], since 2006

== See also ==
{{Portal|France}}
*[[Communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department]]
* The statue ''La Source'' in Clamart is by [[Pierre Charles Lenoir]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Clamart}}
* {{Official website|https://www.clamart.fr/}} {{in lang|fr}}


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