Ville-d'Avray is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the western suburbs of Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

France

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. It is located 11.9 km (7.4 mi) from the center of Paris

Kilometre Zero

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. The commune is served by the Boulogne-Billancourt

Boulogne-Billancourt

Boulogne-Billancourt is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Boulogne-Billancourt is a sub-prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt....

 prefecture

Prefecture

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, of the Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine is designated number 92 of the 101 départements in France. It is part of the Île-de-France region, and covers the western inner suburbs of Paris...

 department.

Transport

Ville-d'Avray contains no station of the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Ville-d'Avray is Sèvres – Ville d'Avray

Gare de Sèvres – Ville-d'Avray

Sèvres - Ville-d'Avray is a train station in the commune of Sèvres .- The Station :The station is served by line L trains of the Transilien Paris - Saint Lazare network. There is a train in each direction every 15 minutes during the day, and every 30 minutes in the evening...

 station on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line. This station is located in the neighboring commune of Sèvres

Sèvres

Sèvres is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.The town is known for its porcelain manufacture, the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, making the famous Sèvres porcelain, as well as being the location of the International Bureau of Weights...

, 0.8 km (0.497098189319845 mi) from the town center of Ville-d'Avray.

Personalities

Landscape painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century...

 maintained a residence in the village and used the area as a subject for several paintings including Ville d'Avray (painting)

Ville d'Avray (painting)

Ville d’Avray is a 1865 painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting is an Oil on canvas is currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.....

 in 1867. Actress Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...

 spent her childhood in Ville-d'Avray. French author and musician Boris Vian

Boris Vian

Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their...

 was born in the town in 1920. Literary historian and critic, essayist, novelist and poet, member of the French Academy and the Académie de Saintonge, Pierre-Henri Simon

Pierre-Henri Simon

Pierre-Henri Simon was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet and literary critic...

lived in Ville d'Avray and is buried there.

External links

• Ville-d'Avray town council website (in French)
• Villedavray.info (in French, English and German)