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Châtenay-Malabry
	Commune of Châtenay-Malabry
	Location
	Paris and inner ring départements
Coordinates	48°45′58″N 2°15′39″E / 48.76611°N 2.26083°E
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Antony
Canton	Chief town of 2 cantons
Intercommunality	Hauts de Bièvre
Mayor	Georges Siffredi; (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	104 m (340 ft) avg.
Land area1	6.38 km2 (2.46 sq mi)
Population2	32,100 (2005 )
- Density	5,031 /km2 (13,030 /sq mi)
	Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	92019/ 92290
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
	2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°45′58″N 2°15′39″E / 48.76611°N 2.26083°E / 48.76611; 2.26083

Châtenay-Malabry is a commune in the south-western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.8 km (6.7 mi) from the center of Paris.

The commune includes the valley la vallée aux loups with green forests and pretty houses including the estate of French writer Chateaubriand. It also includes the Butte Rouge, its most populated area. The Garden City in the Butte Rouge, the Cité Jardins, is one of the earliest housing at moderated rents (HLM).

Châtenay is the location of École Centrale Paris, of an UFR de Pharmacie (Faculty of Pharmacy) and of French national laboratory of doping detection. The high-speed TGV Atlantique goes across the city through an underground railway covered with a park called Coulée verte (greenway).

Since 31 December 2002, it is part of the Communauté d'agglomération des Hauts de Bièvre

[edit] History

Originally called simply Châtenay, the name of the commune became officially Châtenay-Malabry in 1920.

The name Châtenay comes from castellanum = petit château (little castle) and Malabry comes from a deformation of badly located, spoiled ground.

[edit] Transportation

Châtenay-Malabry is served by Robinson station on Paris RER line B. This station is located at the border between the commune of Châtenay-Malabry and the commune of Sceaux, on the Sceaux side of the border.

[edit] Famous persons in Châtenay-Malabry

Voltaire spent time at Chatenay in 1719, and was probably born out of wedlock there in 1694
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) writer, politician and diplomat
Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907), french poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901
Jean Fautrier (1898-1964), painter and sculptor
Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950), Christian philosopher
Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), Christian philosopher
Jérôme Rothen (born 1978), French international football player
Clémence Poésy (born 1982), actress and model