Malakoff () is a suburban

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in the

Hauts-de-Seine Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a département in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It covers Paris's western inner suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the east, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the west ...

department southwest of

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. Located from the centre of the city, it had a population of 30,286 in 2016. The

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(EUROCAE) is based in Malakoff.

History

The commune of Malakoff was created on 8 November 1883 by detaching its territory from the commune of

Vanves Vanves () is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe and the tenth in France History On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris ...

. Its name was taken from an

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''À la Tour de Malakoff'' ("At the Malakoff Tower"); the inn was so named in 1855 to commemorate the

Battle of Malakoff The Battle of Malakoff (french: Bataille de Malakoff, russian: Бой на Малаховом кургане) was a French attack against Russian forces on the Malakoff redoubt and its subsequent capture on 8 September 1855 as a part of the ...

, fought during the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...

Population

Transport

Malakoff is served by two stations on

Paris Métro Line 13 Paris Métro Line 13 (opened as Line B; French: ''Ligne 13 du métro de Paris'') is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It was built by the Nord-Sud Company before becoming Line 13 when the Nord-Sud was merged into the Compagnie du ch ...

: Malakoff – Plateau de Vanves and Malakoff – Rue Étienne Dolet. Malakoff is also served by the Gare de Vanves-Malakoff station on the

Transilien Paris – Montparnasse Transilien Line N is a railway line of the Paris Transilien suburban rail network operated by the SNCF. The trains on this line travel between Gare Montparnasse in Paris and the west of Île-de-France region, with termini in Rambouillet, Dreu ...

suburban rail line. This station is located on the border between the commune of Malakoff and the commune of

, on the Vanves side.

Education

Public primary schools:Les écoles primaires
" Malakoff. Retrieved on September 7, 2016. * Eight public preschools (''maternelles''): Georges-Cogniot, Fernand-Léger, Jean-Jaurès, Guy-Môquet, Paul-Bert, Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, Paul-Langevin, Henri-Barbusse * Seven public elementary schools: Georges-Cogniot, Fernand-Léger, Jean-Jaurès, Guy-Môquet, Paul-Bert, Paul-Langevin, Henri-Barbusse Public secondary schools:
" Malakoff. Retrieved on September 7, 2016. * Junior high schools: Collège Paul-Bert and Collège Henri-Wallon * Senior high school: Lycée professionnel Louis-Girard There is a private school, École privée Notre-Dame-de-France. Post-secondary *

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Notable residents

Christian Boltanski Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French Conceptual art, conceptual style. Early li ...

, sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker, lives and works in Malakoff *

Charles Bourseul Charles Bourseul (28 April 1829 – 23 November 1912) was a pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. Bourseul was born in Brussels, Belgium, and grew up in Douai, Franc ...

(1829–1912), scientist, a pioneer in development of the telephone, lived at 62 Rue d'Arcueil (renamed Rue Paul Vaillant-Couturier). *

Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. ...

, artist, lives and works in Malakoff. * Eugène Christophe (1885–1970), cyclist, winner of the Milan-San Remo race and first wearer of the yellow jersey in the

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. *

Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault Gaëtan Henri Alfred Edouard Léon Marie Gatian de Clérambault (2 July 1872 – 17 November 1934) was a French psychiatrist. Career De Clérambault gained his thesis in 1899, later becoming an assistant physician at the special infirmary ...

(1872–1934), was a psychiatrist, an ethnologist, and a photographer. Lived in a fine villa on Rue Vincent Moris. *

Pierre Curie Pierre Curie ( , ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becq ...

(1859–1906) and

Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the fir ...

(1867–1934) rented a house on Rue du Marché (renamed Rue Gabriel-Crié). They used a shed on the property for their radium experiments (1900 to 1904). *

Serge Danot Serge Danot (7 February 1931 – 23 December 1990) was a French animator and former advertising executive. He is best known for creating the animated series, ''Le Manège enchanté'' in 1964, which became known in its 1965 English-language ver ...

(1931-1990), director and animator, creator of

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* Louis de Grandmaison, painter, lived in Malakoff. *

Edmond Lachenal Edmond Lachenal (3 June 1855 – 10 June 1948) was a French potter. He was a key figure in the French art pottery movement,Sullivan, Elizabeth, "French Art Pottery", In ''Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History'', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014onl ...

, (1855–1948), potter who opened his first pottery works (from 1880 to 1887) in the cit

*

Henri Désiré Landru Henri Désiré Landru (12 April 1869 – 25 February 1922) () was a French serial killer, nicknamed the Bluebeard of Gambais. He murdered at least seven women in the village of Gambais between December 1915 and January 1919. Landru also kill ...

(1869-1922), notorious serial killer, ran a car repair shop on Avenue de Châtillon (renamed Avenue Pierre Brossolette) in the 1910s. *

Roger Legris Roger Legris (3 July 1898 – 22 May 1981) was a French actor. Selected filmography * '' On the Streets'' (1933) * '' The House on the Dune'' (1934) * ''The Devil in the Bottle'' (1935) * ''Counsel for Romance'' (1936) * ''Wells in Flames'' (19 ...

(1898–1981), stage and film actor. *

Annette Messager Annette Messager (born 30 November 1943) is a French visual artist. In 2005 she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French Pavilion. In 2016, she won the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. ...

, artist, lives and works in Malakoff. *

Louise Michel Louise Michel (; 29 May 1830 – 9 January 1905) was a teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation to New Caledonia she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as an important French a ...

(1830-1905), militant anarchist, feminist, important figure in the

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* Pablo Reinoso, artist and designer, lives in Malakoff. *

Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
at the octroi Octroi (; fro, octroyer, to grant, authorize; Lat. ''auctor'') is a local tax collected on various articles brought into a district for consumption. Antiquity The word itself is of French origin. Octroi taxes have a respectable antiquity, bein ...

) at the Porte de Vanves in Malakoff. * Sanyu (1901–1966), painter, lived from 1928 to 1931 in Malakoff on Rue

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolu ...

. *

Francesca Solleville Francesca Solleville (born 2 March 1932, Périgueux) is a French singer. She lives in Malakoff (Hauts-de-Seine). She is the granddaughter of the founder of the . She is married to the painter Louis . Biography Francesca Solleville was born in ...

, singer, lives in Malakoff. * Sam Szafran (1934–2019), artist, lived and worked in Malakoff

References

External links

Official website
(in French) {{authority control Communes of Hauts-de-Seine Populated places established in 1883