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Clamart
	Commune of Clamart
	Clamart townhall
	Location
	Paris and inner ring départements
Coordinates	48°47′57″N 2°15′45″E / 48.79917°N 2.2625°E
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Antony
Intercommunality	Sud de Seine
Mayor	Philippe Kaltenbach (PS); (2001–2007)
Statistics
Elevation	64–175 m (210–570 ft)
Land area1	8.77 km2 (3.39 sq mi)
Population2	49,800 (2005 )
- Density	5,678 /km2 (14,710 /sq mi)
	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°47′57″N 2°15′45″E / 48.79917°N 2.2625°E / 48.79917; 2.2625

Clamart is a commune in the south-western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 8.7 km (5.4 miles) from the center of Paris.

The city is divided into two parts, separated by a forest: bas Clamart, the historical centre, and petit Clamart with urbanization developed in the 1960s replacing pea fields.

[edit] Administration

The canton of Clamart includes only a part of the commune. The other part of the canton belongs to the commune of Le Plessis-Robinson.

[edit] Transport

Clamart is served by Clamart station on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line.

[edit] Nearest places

Fontenay-aux-Roses

[edit] Twinned municipalities

Lüneburg, Germany since 1975
Scunthorpe, United Kingdom since 1976
Majadahonda, Spain since 1988
Artashat, Armenia since 2003
Penamacor, Portugal since 2006

[edit] Notable residents

Henri Matisse lived in Clamart before the First World War.^[2]

[edit] See also

Hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy. Yasser Arafat died in this hospital in 2004.
Jean Bastien-Thiry and the assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle on August 22, 1962 at Petit-Clamart.
Nikolai Berdyaev died here in 1948.
Hatem Ben Arfa was born here in 1987.

[edit] References

^ 2005 estimate, 48,572 at the 1999 census
^ Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, New York City: The Bodeley Head, Reprint: London: Penguin Classic, 2001, p. 102