Le Kremlin-Bicêtre is most famous as the location of the Bicêtre Hospital, where Superintendent Philippe Pinel is credited as being the first to introduce humane methods into the treatment of the mentally ill, in 1793. Its most notorious guest was the Marquis de Sade.
The Kremlin-Bicêtre is a municipality in the inner suburbs of Paris . It is located to the south-east of the capital, at the Porte d’Italie .
The name “Kremlin” comes from an inn sign, Au Sergent du Kremlin , a souvenir of the Russian campaign in 1812. “Bicêtre”, in old French bissêtre that we find used by Molière in L’Étourdi in 1658, means “sad fate, misfortune”. This toponym seems to derive from an old manor, now disappeared the Petit Winchester , francized Vincestre , then Bicestre , then by deformation Bissêtre (Bicêtre), which means “misfortune” in Old French, the manor having been burnt down by the Burgundians.
Sights
Places and monuments
The town is recent (1896), the architectural heritage is therefore reduced. Note however:
- The hospital Bicetre : some buildings are of the xvii th century
- The town hall: built in 1903 by Henri Rebersat (architect) and Forest (sculptor), built to affirm the identity of the new town. It was transferred in 1997 to the general inventory of historical monuments . This establishment houses a monument to those killed in the 1914-1918 war , built in the staircase in the form of a commemorative glass roof, installed in 1920 by Charles Champigneulle, master glassmaker.
- The fort of Bicêtre : It is one of the sixteen forts detached from the protection system of Paris .
Cultural facilities
The municipality has a performance hall : the ECAM (André-Malraux cultural space), a conservatory (dance, music and theater) and a media library , “l’Echo”, opened in 2012.
Personalities linked to the common
- Suzanne Flon is a French actress, born on January 28 , 1918 at the Kremlin-Bicêtre and died on June 15, 2005 in Paris.
- John Christoforou (1921-2014), expressionist painter belonging to the movement of New Figuration , lived in the Kremlin-Bicêtre from 1957 until his death.
- Kamelancien , French rapper who started in 1993 in the rap world .
- Lazare Ponticelli (1897-2008), the last French hairy , the last French fighter, survivor of the First World War .
- André Lamarre , Resistance fighter during the Second World War , shot at Mont Valérien.
- Vincent Purkart , 7 times French table tennis champion (including 2 times in singles in 1964 and 1965). 11 times French team champion with US Kremlin Bicêtre . 111 selections for the French team. Creator of the Secrétin -Purkart show, a humorous table tennis show.
- Farid Dms Debah , (1976-), film director and producer . He notably shot several sequences of his film Art’n Acte Production at the town hall and was awarded the town’s Medal of Honor in 2005.
- Laurent Maistret , (1982 -), model, and winner of the shows Koh-Lanta: The new edition in 2014, and Dance with the Stars in 2016. He has been a host sincemarch 2015from the program On n’est pas que des cobayes on France 5.
Events
The RussenKo festival , organized by the city of Kremlin-Bicêtre, is devoted to Russian and Russian-speaking arts and cultures. It takes place every last weekend of January since 2010.
Two festivals are organized every year in May by two student associations on the EPITA campus : Epitanime , convention on animation and Prologin , the final of the national programming competition .
In addition, certain festival performances in Val-de-Marne are held each year at ECAM (André-Malraux Cultural Space): in particular the winter sounds festival and the Val-de-Marne national dance biennial.
