Rue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier

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La rue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier est une voie de communication d'Alfortville, dans le Val-de-Marne. À la naissance d'Alfortville, c'était la plus longue artère de la ville.

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Hôtel de Ville, Alfortville

The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Alfortville, Val-de-Marne, in the southern suburbs of Paris, standing on Place François-Mitterrand. It has been included on the Inventaire général des monuments by the French Ministry of Culture since 1982.

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Alfortville

Alfortville is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 7.6 km from the center of Paris. It is one of the 13 communes in the intercommunality of Métropole du Grand Paris. It is also further divided into 15 neighborhoods.

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Musée Fragonard d'Alfort

The Musée Fragonard d'Alfort, often simply the Musée Fragonard, is a museum of anatomical oddities located within the École Nationale Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, 7 avenue du Général de Gaulle, in Maisons-Alfort, a suburb of Paris. It is open several days per week in the cooler months; an admission fee is charged.

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Jardin botanique de l'École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort

The Jardin botanique de l'École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort is a botanical garden operated by the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, and located on the school's grounds at 7, avenue du Général de Gaulle, Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France. It is open to the public; an admission fee is charged. The garden was first established in 1766 as the school's jardin des plantes under the direction of Honoré Fragonard, and in 1771 began to classify plants according to the botanical system of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. In 1801, it began to specialize in silkworm cultivation and honey production. By 1882, when the herb garden moved, it contained about 1,600 species classified according to the "Baillon system". During World War I the garden was converted to grow vegetables; though subsequently restored, it was reduced in area by about 4,000 m2 in 1930. Garden restoration began in 1960 and accelerated in the late 1970s. Today the garden contains collections of herbs and toxic and medicinal plants, with a particularly strong collection of melliferous plants and beehives, as well as a seed bank containing 1,813 accessions representing 1,700 species.

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Fort de Charenton

Fort de Charenton is a fortification built in 1842 in the community of Maisons-Alfort, and part of the Paris defences planned by Adolphe Thiers. After the fall of Napoleon I in 1814, and again after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Paris was occupied by foreign forces. To counter new invasion and occupation, defensive works were planned. In 1841 a new fortified enclosure of Paris was proposed, becoming known as the Thiers wall after its chief proponent, prime minister Adolphe Thiers. The plan involved the construction of a new fortified wall around an expanded Paris, the Thiers wall proper, and the building of sixteen new forts a few kilometers farther out. The Fort de Charenton was planned as part of this system. Presently occupied by the National Gendarmerie, the fort saw passing regiments as well as foreign occupation forces at the time of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Second World War.

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Situation et accès

Orientée du nord au sud, elle rencontre entre autres la rue Charles-de-Gaulle, traverse la place Jean-Jaurès, où se rencontrent la rue du 14-Juillet et la rue Victor-Hugo. Elle est desservie par la gare de Maisons-Alfort - Alfortville.

Origine du nom

Cette rue a été nommée en hommage à Paul Vaillant-Couturier, (1892-1937) , cofondateur du Parti communiste français.

Historique

Cette voie de communication était autrefois la rue de Villeneuve, référence à Villeneuve-Saint-Georges vers laquelle elle se dirige. Plus au sud, un chemin de Villeneuve menant au cimetière d'Alfortville a longtemps subsisté, et est devenu la rue Étienne-Dolet.

Bâtiments remarquables et lieux de mémoire

Espace Culturel « Le 148 ». Square Camélinat. Groupe scolaire Nord, inauguré en 1898, première école de la ville. C'est aujourd'hui l'école primaire Henri-Barbusse. Plusieurs immeubles datant du début du XXe siècle et recensés à l'inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, aux no 4, no 8, no 29, no 34, no 178. Hôtel de ville d'Alfortville, construit en 1887. Un marché, ouvert par arrëté prefectoral du 9 septembre 1882.