Located in Clichy are the headquarters of the L'Oréal Group, the world's largest company in cosmetics and beauty; Bic, one of the biggest pen producers in the world; Monoprix, a major French retail chain; as well as Sony France, a large electronics and media company.
The name Clichy was recorded for the first time in the 6th century as Clippiacum, later corrupted into Clichiacum, meaning "estate of Cleppius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.
In the 13th century, the plain of Clichy was used as a garenne ("warren" in English), i.e. a hunting park and game preserve for the exclusive use of the king or a lord. Clichy became known as Clichy-la-Garenne ("Clichy the Warren" or preserve).
Between 1793 and 1795, during the French Revolution, Clichy-la-Garenne was renamed Clichy-la-Patriote (meaning "Clichy the Patriot"), perhaps because the word garenne reminded people of the feudal privileges that the new government abolished in 1789.
After the Revolution, the French administration officially recorded the name of the commune only as Clichy, dropping the "la-Garenne". This is the term in use in the 21st century. But, in many instances the municipality of Clichy refers to the commune traditionally as Clichy-la-Garenne, although this has not been the official name for more than 200 years.
The wharf and bridge of Clichy.Passage Berthier.Railway station.
Its church was built in the 17th century under the direction of St Vincent de Paul, who had previously been curé of Clichy.[3]
In 1830, part of the territory of Clichy was detached and became the commune of Batignolles-Monceau. On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris annexed neighboring communes, taking most of Batignolles-Monceau, which now forms the major part of the 17th arrondissement of Paris. A small part of the territory of Batignolles-Monceau was returned to Clichy.
On 11 January 1867, part of the territory of Clichy was detached and merged with a part of the territory of Neuilly-sur-Seine to create the commune of Levallois-Perret.
The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Clichy proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Clichy ceded the commune of Batignolles-Monceau in 1830, and reabsorbed part of it in 1859. In 1866 it ceded part of its territory to the new commune of Levallois-Perret.[4]
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1793
1,360
—
1800
1,606
+2.40%
1806
1,279
−3.72%
1821
3,018
+5.89%
1831
3,097
+0.26%
1836
3,605
+3.08%
1841
4,157
+2.89%
1846
5,911
+7.29%
1851
6,433
+1.71%
1856
12,270
+13.79%
1861
17,473
+7.33%
1866
13,666
−4.80%
1872
14,599
+1.11%
1876
17,354
+4.42%
1881
24,320
+6.98%
1886
26,741
+1.92%
1891
30,698
+2.80%
1896
33,895
+2.00%
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1901
39,521
+3.12%
1906
41,787
+1.12%
1911
46,676
+2.24%
1921
50,165
+0.72%
1926
50,427
+0.10%
1931
55,692
+2.01%
1936
56,475
+0.28%
1946
53,029
−0.63%
1954
55,591
+0.59%
1962
56,316
+0.16%
1968
52,477
−1.17%
1975
47,764
−1.34%
1982
46,895
−0.26%
1990
48,030
+0.30%
1999
50,179
+0.49%
2007
58,646
+1.97%
2012
59,240
+0.20%
2017
61,070
+0.61%
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1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirsinNorthwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.
^"Legal Notice." Bic. Retrieved on 7 February 2011. "Head office : 14, rue Jeanne d’Asnières 92611 Clichy cedex, France."
^L.C. "Le siège de la Fnac pressentiArchived 2012-10-29 at the Wayback Machine." Le Parisien. 2 November 2006. Retrieved on 10 March 2010. "Et c'est le siège social de la Fnac qui aurait décroché la timbale. Actuellement installé à Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine), le siège de l'agitateur culturel chercherait à déménager.
^"150 salariés de la Fnac arrivent encore à IvryArchived 2012-08-06 at the Wayback Machine." Le Parisien. 17 June 2008. Retrieved on 10 March 2010.『HIER, c'était le dernier jour d'aménagement au nouveau siège social de la Fnac, au bord de la Seine à Ivry-Port.』and "Ils rejoignent ainsi les 850 autres employés qui sont déjà installés depuis le début du mois à Ivry."
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