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==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
[[File:Quarters_of_the_15th_arrondissement_of_Paris_-_OSM_2020.svg|thumb|250px|The quarters of the 15th arrondissement]] | |||
[[File:Mairie du 15e Arrondissement at night 140223 4.jpg|thumb|{{lang|fr|Mairie du XV<sup>e</sup> arrondissement}} near Vaugirard Métro station]] | [[File:Mairie du 15e Arrondissement at night 140223 4.jpg|thumb|{{lang|fr|Mairie du XV<sup>e</sup> arrondissement}} near Vaugirard Métro station]] | ||
The 15th arrondissement is located in the southwestern part of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. It includes one of the three islands in Paris, the {{lang|fr|[[Île aux Cygnes]]|italic=no}} ('Isle of Swans'), on the border with the 16th arrondissement. It also borders the 6th, 7th and 14th arrondissements. | The 15th arrondissement is located in the southwestern part of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. It includes one of the three islands in Paris, the {{lang|fr|[[Île aux Cygnes]]|italic=no}} ('Isle of Swans'), on the border with the 16th arrondissement. It also borders the 6th, 7th and 14th arrondissements. | ||
At {{cvt|8.5 |km2}}, it is the third-largest arrondissement in Paris; it would be the largest if the large parks {{lang|fr|[[Bois de Boulogne]]|italic=no}} and {{lang|fr|[[Bois de Vincennes]]|italic=no}} were not counted as part of the 16th and 12th arrondissements, respectively. | At {{cvt|8.5 |km2}}, it is the third-largest arrondissement in Paris; it would be the largest if the large parks {{lang|fr|[[Bois de Boulogne]]|italic=no}} and {{lang|fr|[[Bois de Vincennes]]|italic=no}} were not counted as part of the 16th and 12th arrondissements, respectively. | ||
The arrondissement consists of four quarters: | |||
* Quartier Saint-Lambert (57) | |||
* Quartier Necker (58) | |||
* Quartier Grenelle (59) | |||
* Quartier Javel (60) | |||
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==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||
===Historical population=== | ===Historical population=== | ||
Revision as of 08:02, 17 June 2025
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The 15th arrondissement of Paris (Template:Langx) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as Script error: No such module "Lang". ('the fifteenth').
The 15th arrondissement, called Script error: No such module "Lang"., is situated on the left bank of the River Seine. Sharing the Montparnasse district with the 6th and 14th arrondissements, it is the city's most populous arrondissement, with a population of 229,472 as of 2020. Script error: No such module "Lang". – the tallest skyscraper in Paris – and the neighbouring Script error: No such module "Lang". are both located in the 15th arrondissement, at its border with the 14th.
It is also home to the high-rise Beaugrenelle district and the Script error: No such module "Lang". riverside development, as well as the Script error: No such module "Lang". convention centre, where the 180-metre Tour Triangle is set to house a 120-room hotel and Template:Convert of office space in 2026.[1] Close is the Script error: No such module "Lang"., the city heliport, just nearby the border with Script error: No such module "Lang"..
History
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Politician Charles Michels (born 1903) was elected a deputy for the 15th arrondissement under the Popular Front; he was taken hostage and shot by the Nazis in 1941. A Métro station and street now bear his name.
Quarters
As in all the Parisian Script error: No such module "Lang"., the fifteenth is made up of four administrative quarters (Script error: No such module "Lang".).
- To the south, Script error: No such module "Lang". occupies the former site of the village of Vaugirard, built along an ancient Roman road. The geography of the area was particularly suited to wine-making, as well as quarrying. In fact, many Parisian monuments, such as the Script error: No such module "Lang"., were built from Vaugirard stone. The village, not yet being part of Paris, was considered by Parisians to be an agreeable suburb, pleasant for country walks or its cabarets and puppet shows. In 1860 Vaugirard was annexed to Paris, along with adjoining villages. Today, notable attractions in this area include the Script error: No such module "Lang". (an exhibition centre which hosts the Script error: No such module "Lang"., agricultural expositions, in addition to car shows) and Script error: No such module "Lang"., a park built on the former site of a slaughterhouse where every year wine by the name of Script error: No such module "Lang". is produced and auctioned at the civic centre.
- To the east, Script error: No such module "Lang". was originally an uninhabited space between Paris and Vaugirard. The most well-known landmarks in the area are the Gare Montparnasse train station and the looming Script error: No such module "Lang". office tower. The area around the train station has been renovated and now contains a number of office and apartment blocks, a park (the Script error: No such module "Lang"., built directly over the train tracks), and a shopping centre. Finally, the quartier contains a number of public buildings: the Script error: No such module "Lang"., the Necker Children's Hospital, as well as the private foundation Pasteur Institute.
- To the north, Script error: No such module "Lang". was originally a village of the same name. Grenelle plain extended from the current Script error: No such module "Lang". to the suburb of Script error: No such module "Lang". on the other side of the Seine, but remained mostly uninhabited in centuries past due to difficulties farming the land. At the beginning of the 19th century, an entrepreneur by the name of Violet divided off a section of the plain: this became the village of Script error: No such module "Lang"., known for its series of straight streets and blocks, which remain today. The whole area broke off from the commune of Vaugirard in 1830, becoming the commune of Grenelle, which was in turn annexed to Paris in 1860. A century later, a number of apartment and office towers were built along the Seine, the Script error: No such module "Lang". along with the Beaugrenelle shopping mall.
- To the west, Script error: No such module "Lang". lies to the south of Grenelle plain. In years past, it was the industrial area of the Script error: No such module "Lang".: first with chemical companies (the famous Script error: No such module "Lang". bleach was invented and produced there), then electrical companies (Thomson), and finally car manufacturers (Citroën), whose factories occupied a large part of the Script error: No such module "Lang". up until the early 1970s. The industrial areas have since been rehabilitated; the neighbourhood now contains Script error: No such module "Lang"., Georges Pompidou European Hospital, and a number of large office buildings and television studios (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., the Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., etc.). In addition, to the south of the circular highway (Script error: No such module "Lang".), an extension of the 15th, formerly an aerodrome at the beginning of the 20th century, is now a heliport, a gym and a recreation centre.
The early airfield here has been encroached upon by urban development and a sports centre, but the residual area, mainly laid to grass, continues to serve Paris as a heliport. The Script error: No such module "Lang". has a detachment there close to maintenance facilities. Customs facilities are available and especially busy during the Script error: No such module "Lang". airshows held at Script error: No such module "Lang". on the other side of the city.
Geography
The 15th arrondissement is located in the southwestern part of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. It includes one of the three islands in Paris, the Script error: No such module "Lang". ('Isle of Swans'), on the border with the 16th arrondissement. It also borders the 6th, 7th and 14th arrondissements.
At Template:Cvt, it is the third-largest arrondissement in Paris; it would be the largest if the large parks Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang". were not counted as part of the 16th and 12th arrondissements, respectively.
The arrondissement consists of four quarters:
- Quartier Saint-Lambert (57)
- Quartier Necker (58)
- Quartier Grenelle (59)
- Quartier Javel (60)
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Paris – Pont Mirabeau detail
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Colonnes d'eau, Parc André-Citroën
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Paris XV, Rue Alain Chartier, Wallace fountain
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Statue of Liberty (with the Eiffel Tower in background)
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Demographics
Historical population
| Year (of French censuses) |
Population | Density (inh. per km2) |
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| 1872 | 75,449 | 8,874 |
| 1954 | 250,124 | 29,419 |
| 1962 (peak of population) | 250,551 | 29,470 |
| 1968 | 244,080 | 28,709 |
| 1975 | 231,301 | 27,205 |
| 1982 | 225,596 | 26,534 |
| 1990 | 223,940 | 26,340 |
| 1999 | 225,362 | 26,507 |
| 2009 | 236,491 | 27,888 |
Places of interest
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Keller swimming pool
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Citroën models
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Panoramic restaurant
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Péniche Thalassa, Quai André-Citroën
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- Grand Pavois de Paris (1971), one of the largest real estate complexes in Paris
- Musée Pasteur[2]
- Musée du Service des Objets Trouvés
- Musée Bourdelle
- Musée Mendjisky, specialising in School of Paris artists, housed in a Robert Mallet-Stevens building.[3]
- Musée Jean Moulin, French Resistance – (musées Leclerc-Moulin)[4]
- Church of Notre-Dame de la Salette in Paris
- Synagogue of Chasseloup-Laubat
- Beaugrenelle Shopping Centre[5]
- Parts of the Montparnasse area.
- The former workshop (no longer standing) of Constantin Brâncuși, where the sculptor worked from 1925 to 1957 has now been relocated in front of the Centre Georges Pompidou
- Villa Santos Dumont where Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger[6] had their workshop, also featured in Gail Albert Halaban book Out of my Window, Paris.[7]
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- Square Béla Bartók where the sculpture-fountain Script error: No such module "Lang". by Jean-Yves Lechevallier can be seen.
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., featuring a sculpture by Juan Miró (the Script error: No such module "Lang".) with a plaque commemorating the many artists, poets and painters or sculptors who lived there, including André Masson, Jean Dubuffet, Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos.
- A replica of the statue of Liberty on the île aux Cygnes where Bartholdi worked.
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- The Parc Georges-Brassens
- The Polypores Fountain by Jean-Yves Lechevallier featured in the movie by Alain Resnais Same Old Song.
- The Paris Expo Porte de Versailles exhibition centre (with the Tour Triangle project) and Palais des Sports, near Porte de Versailles Métro station
- The Front de Seine high-rise district
- The Cheminée du Front de Seine, a Template:Convert chimney, the 4th tallest structure in Paris
Government and infrastructure
- At one time the head office of the Script error: No such module "Lang". was in the 15th arrondissement.[9]
- Since November 2015 the French Ministère des Armées ("Ministry of the Armed Forces") has been located in purpose-built building near the Balard Métro station.[10]
- Australian Embassy
- Japanese Cultural Centre in Paris[11]
- Institut Français[12]
Economy
- The headquarters of Orange S.A. and Eutelsat are located in the 15th arrondissement.[13]
- La Poste, the French mail service, has its head office in the arrondissement.[14][15]
- The publisher Script error: No such module "Lang". also has its headquarters in the arrondissement.[16]
- Prior to the completion of the current Air France headquarters in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995,[17][18] Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.[19][20][21]
- Previously Script error: No such module "Lang". housed the executive management of Accor.[22]
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- French Football Federation
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- European Space Agency
- International Energy Agency
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- International Council of Museums
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Marché de la rue de la Convention
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Île aux Cygnes and St Christophe Church
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Entrance to "La Ruche"
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European Hospital Georges-Pompidou, Hall
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Marché du livre ancien Georges Brassens
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Balloon "Air de Paris"
Education and research
- Schiller International University has a campus in the arrondissement. It is in proximity to Place de la Convention.[23]
- The arrondissement is also host to the Script error: No such module "Lang". international school and the international bilingual school, Victor Hugo[24]
- International Culinary school Script error: No such module "Lang"., established in 1895, has a campus in the 15th (rue Léon Delhomme)[25]
- Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital affiliated to the University of Paris Descartes, (pediatrics)
- Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Saint Charles Campus - Visual arts and aesthetics.[26]
- Panthéon-Assas University, Campus Vaugirard, Law school
- PariSanté Campus
- Pasteur Institute
- Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie
Notable people
- Édouard Balladur, politician, Prime Minister of France (1993–1995)
- Brigitte Bardot, actress
- Samuel Beckett, writer, who lived in the 15th arrondissement for most of his adult life
- Walter Benjamin, philosopher
- Luc Besson, filmmaker
- Antoine Bourdelle, artist
- Alexander Calder, artist
- Marc Chagall, artist
- Barbara Chase-Riboud, artist
- Dietrich von Choltitz, military governor of Paris, 1944–1945
- André Citroën, industrialist
- Robert Desnos, poet and member of the French Resistance
- Michel Foucault, philosopher
- Tsuguharu Foujita, artist
- Rebecca Hampton, actress and television presenter
- François Hollande, President of France (2012–2017), lived in the 15th arrondissement.
- René Magritte, artist
- Sophie Marceau, actress
- André Masson, artist
- Henry Miller, writer, lived in the 15th where he worked on Tropic of Cancer.[27]
- Joan Miró, artist
- Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob discovered the mechanism of genes' transcription regulation, a work honored by the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Luc Montagnier, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and colleagues discovered the two HIV viruses that cause AIDS, in 1983 and 1985, were honored by the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Nekfeu, hip-hop artist
- Louis Pasteur, microbiologist
- Marie-Claire Pauwels, journalist
- Ossip Zadkine, artist
See also
References
Further reading
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External links
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