Levallois Perret
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The town hall of Levallois-Perret
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| Coordinates: 48°53′42″N 2°17′14″E / 48.895°N 2.2872°ECoordinates: 48°53′42″N 2°17′14″E / 48.895°N 2.2872°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Hauts-de-Seine | |
| Arrondissement | Nanterre | |
| Canton | 2 cantons | |
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| • Mayor | Patrick Balkany | |
| Area1 | 2.41 km2 (0.93 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006)2 | 63,643 | |
| • Density | 26,000/km2 (68,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 92044 /92300 | |
| Elevation | 23–34 m (75–112 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Levallois-Perret (IPA: [lə.va.lwa.pɛ.ʁɛ]) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 6.4 km (4.0 mi) from the centre of Paris. It is the most densely populated town in Europe.
The name Levallois-Perret comes from two housing developments, Champerret (started by landowner Jean-Jacques Perret in 1822) and Village Levallois (founded by developer Nicolas-Eugène Levallois in 1845), which resulted in the incorporation of the commune.
On the territory of what is now Levallois-Perret, before the French Revolution, the village of Villiers and the hamlet of Courcelles (or La Planchette) were there. They now give their names to two Paris Métro stations. At the time of the creation of French communes during the French Revolution, they were part of the commune of Clichy, and the commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine extended over what is now the south-western part of Levallois-Perret.
Landowner Jean-Jacques Perret started some housing developments in 1822 in the northeast of the commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine, in a place soon called Champerret ("champ perret" meant "field of Perret"), which gave its name to one station of the Paris Métro. Later in 1845, Nicolas-Eugène Levallois started some housing developments for landowner André Noël on his land near La Planchette (in the commune of Clichy). The land developed by Nicolas-Eugène Levallois soon became known as Village Levallois.
In the 1860s, the village had grown to the point of forming a single builtup area. Several demands were made to the authorities for the incorporation of the area, as a commune.
On 30 June 1866, the commune of Levallois-Perret was eventually created by detaching that part of the territory of Clichy where the Village Levallois stood and merging it with that part of the territory of Neuilly-sur-Seine of Champerret.
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