Thiais () is a commune in the southern suburbs of

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. It is located from the center of Paris. The name Thiais comes from

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''Theodasium'' or ''Theodaxium'', meaning "estate of Theodasius", a

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landowner. The Austrian writer Joseph Roth, exiled due to his opposition to the Nazi regime, lived at Thiais at the end of the 1930s and is buried at the local cemetery. The tomb of Russian writer

Yevgeny Zamyatin Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin ( rus, Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ zɐˈmʲætʲɪn; – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fictio ...

is also there. Expatriate American journalist and novelist William Gardner Smith died there in 1974. Thiais is best known for its cemetery, the second largest of Paris.

Population

Transport

Thiais is served by Pont de Rungis–Aéroport d'Orly station on Paris

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. It is also served by Choisy-le-Roi station on Paris RER line C. This station, although administratively located on the territory of Choisy-le-Roi, lies closer to the town center of Thiais than Pont de Rungis – Aéroport d'Orly station does, and is thus used by people in Thiais.

Education

The commune has: * Seven preschools (''écoles maternelles''):

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, Charles Péguy,

Jacques Prévert Jacques Prévert (; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the Poetic realism, poetic ...

, Saint Exupéry,

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, and des Tilleuls * Six elementary schools: Charles Péguy, Romain Gary, Camille Claudel, Paul Éluard, Saint-Exupéry, and Robert Schuman * Three junior high schools: Collège

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, Collège

Paul Valéry Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, m ...

, and Collège

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* Lycée Guillaume Apollinaire, a senior high school/sixth-form collegeLycée
" Thiais. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.

Monuments

Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; born Paul Antschel; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translation, literary translator. He adopted his pen name (an anagram of the Romanian spelling Ancel ...

's grave. * Farhad Mehrad's grave. Farhad was cremated and is buried in the Thiais. *

's grave.

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