16th arrondissement of Paris

History

The 16th arrondissement was created by the Law of 16 June 1859 which incorporated the villages (now neighborhoods) of Auteuil, Passy and Chaillot into Paris; these villages had become communes after the French Revolution and had been in the Seine department ever since. When the law of 1859 was drafted, it was planned that these villages would form a new arrondissement that would be numbered the 13th arrondissement, but "The rich and powerful moving in did not like the number. They pulled strings and became the 16th, the unlucky association and postmark being transferred to the blameless but less influential folks around Porte d'Italie."

Geography

The land area of this arrondissement is 16.305 km2 (6.295 sq mi or 4,029 acres), slightly more than half of which consists of the Bois de Boulogne park. Excluding the Bois de Boulogne, its land area is 7.846 km2 (3.029 sq mi or 1,939 acres). It is the largest arrondissement in Paris in terms of land area.

The arrondissement consists of four quarters:

• Quartier Auteuil (61)
• Quartier Muette (62)
• Quartier Porte-Dauphine (63)
• Quartier Chaillot (64)

File:90 boulevard Flandrin, Paris 16e.jpg|Apartment buildings on Boulevard Flandrin File:Parc des Princes.jpg|Stade Français rugby union fans at the Parc des Princes

Demographics and politics

The population of the 16th arrondissement peaked in 1962, when it had 227,418 inhabitants. At the last census (2009), the population was 169,372. The 16th arrondissement contains a great deal of business activity; in 1999 it hosted 106,971 jobs.

The 16th arrondissement is commonly thought to be one of the richest parts of Paris (as the saying Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy popularised); it features some of the most expensive real estate in France including the famous Auteuil "villas";The foremost Auteuil villas are: Villa Montmorency, Hameau Boileau, Villa de la Réunion and Villa Victorien Sardou; all of which are inhabited by some of France's wealthiest and most famous citizens including First Lady Carla Bruni (and President Nicolas Sarkozy) or multibillionaires Vincent Bolloré, Arnaud Lagardère, Dominique Desseigne and Alain Afflelou and famous singers Mylène Farmer and Sylvie Vartan heirs to 19th century high-society country houses, they are exclusive gated communities with huge houses surrounded by gardens, which is extremely rare in Paris. It is also the only arrondissement in Paris to be divided into two separate postal codes. The southern part of the arrondissement carries a postal code of 75016, while the northern part has the code of 75116.

Politics

The 16th arrondissement used to be one of the strongest areas in the country for the French political right. At the 2017 French presidential election, for example, it gave over 58% of its votes in the first round to right-wing candidate François Fillon, compared to his national result of 20%.

However, after the political realignment in French politics in the late 2010s, which saw emerging polarization between Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition and the populist-right National Rally, the 16th began breaking for Macronist parties like En Marche! and Renaissance by large margins. Both of the arrondissement’s current representatives in the National Assembly, for instance, are from Renaissance.

Historical population

Immigration

| EU-15 = 6.7 | non-EU-15 = 12.5

Economy

Notable companies that have their head offices in the arrondissement include Lacoste, PSA Peugeot Citroën and Lagardère.

At one time Aérospatiale, Technip, Veolia and Lafarge also had their head offices in the arrondissement.

Filming location

In one of the opening scenes of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, character Emilio Largo is seen arriving at the headquarters of The International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons. This scene was shot on Avenue d'Eylau in the 16th arrondissement.

The 1972 film Last Tango in Paris was filmed at various locations in the 16th arrondissement, with the apartment the characters stayed in being located in Passy.

A scene of the 2018 action film Mission: Impossible – Fallout was filmed under the elevated Métro station Passy in the arrondissement. Other scenes of the film included ones shot at the Grand Palais (8th arrondissement) and under the Cité de la mode et du design on the Seine (13th arrondissement).

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Here is a list of domestic French sixth-form colleges/high schools in the arrondissement

• Lycée Saint-Jean de Passy
• Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
• Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
• Lycée Claude-Bernard
• Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say
• Lycée Gerson
• Lycée Molière
• Lycée La Fontaine (Lycée Jean-de-la-Fontaine)
• Lycée Octave-Feuillet
• Lycée Notre-Dame des Oiseaux
• Institut de La Tour
• Lycée René-Cassin
• École normale israélite orientale (Paris) (fr
• Cours privé Beauséjour
• École d'esthétique Yves Rocher
• Ipécom Paris
• Lycée Moria-Diane Benvenuti
• Lycée Passy-Saint-Honoré
• Lycée Sainte-Thérèse

International schools:

• Russian Embassy School of Paris, on the grounds of the .
• Colegio Español Federico García Lorca, a Spanish international primary school owned by the Spanish government The Spanish secondary school, Liceo Español Luis Buñuel, is located in Neuilly sur Seine.
• The two campuses of the International School of Paris
• Kingsworth International School

Undergraduate and postgraduate studies

The Paris Dauphine University is in the arrondissement, as well as Paris Institute of Technology, part of Paris Descartes University, one of Paris biggest public universities.

The renowned "classes préparatoires" establishment Intégrale : Institut d'enseignement supérieur privé have one of their campuses in the arrondissement.

Supplementary schools

The École de langue japonaise de Paris (パリ日本語補習校 Pari Nihongo Hoshūkō), a supplementary Japanese education programme, is held at the École Maternelle et Primaire Saint Francois d'Eylau in the 16th arrondissement. The school has its offices at the Association Amicale des Ressortissants Japonais en France (AARJF) in the 8th arrondissement.

Cityscape

Neighbourhoods

• Auteuil
• Chaillot
• Passy

Places of interest

• Louis Vuitton Foundation
• Cimetière de Passy
• Parc des Princes
• Palais de Tokyo
• Pavillon de l'eau
• Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
• Maison de Radio France
• Maison de Balzac
• Fondation Le Corbusier
• Guimet Museum
• Saint Honore d'Eylau church
• Jardin d'Acclimatation
• Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil
• Mona Bismarck American Center
• Musée Arménien de France
• Musée d'Art Dentaire Pierre Fauchard
• Musée Baccarat
• Musée Clemenceau
• Musée de la Contrefaçon
• Musée d'Ennery
• Musée Galliera
• Musée Marmottan Monet
• New York University's distinguished Paris campus
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Ohel Abraham Synagogue
• Château de la Muette
• International School of Paris
• Tenniseum

Main streets and squares

• Trocadéro
  • Musée national de la Marine
  • Musée de l'Homme
  • Musée national des Monuments Français
  • Musée du Cinéma Henri Langlois
  • Théâtre national de Chaillot
• Avenue Foch
  • 84 Avenue Foch
• Place de l'Étoile and Arc de Triomphe (partial)
• Rue Nungesser et Coli, named after the disappeared aviators of the 1927 biplane L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird).
  • avenue Bugeaud
• Place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud

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