The commune is known for its famous porcelain production at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, which was also where the abortive Treaty of Sèvres was signed.

Sèvres is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.9 kilometres (6.2 miles) from the centre of Paris and is in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the region of Île-de-France.

Sights

Places and monuments

• The commune includes many listed monuments in the general inventory of French cultural heritage.
• International pedagogical centre
• National porcelain manufactory, 4 Grand-Rue: The six ovens
• Sèvres Espace Loisirs [fr], 47 Grand-Rue: Former covered market
• House of Jardies and Memorial of Gambetta (museum)
• National school of ceramics
• Building and gate, 17 Grande-Rue
• Building, 16 Rue Troyon
• Façades, roofs, gate, 14 rue Ville-d’Avray
• Former hôtel, 164 Grande-Rue: Main body, first span of both wings, closing on street, ground of the court, and interior decoration of the chapel, 33 rue
• Armenian College
• Wood of Fausses-Reposes
• Banks of the Seine
• Domain of Saint-Cloud with the Villeneuve-l’Etang Park
• Banks of the Seine

The Church of Saint-Romain-de-Blaye

The church offers an amalgam of Gothic, redesigned and damaged by the 17th century: Outdoors, there is a clerestory tower which was disfigured. The rounded roof has been largely preserved, but it is much uncovered. The Way of the Cross, painted on porcelain, comes from the Manufacture de Sèvres, and stained glass windows, more than a century old. This church was inaugurated several times.

It was founded by the Merovingian King Dagobert II in the 7th century, it was a Royal Parish under Marie Leszczyńska. The first municipal assembly, created by the edict of 1787, consisted of two members: The lord, namely King Louis XVI, and the priest, as well as nine other elected members. This assembly met in the church at the end of vespers or high mass.

The Church of Our Lady of Bruyères

This chapel was built in 1930, on the edge of the Route des Gardes. Established as a parish in 1962, destroyed in 1971, it was rebuilt at 23 rue du Docteur Roux in 1968.

The Armenian College

This building, located 26 Rue Troyon, was given to the Pompadour for a school for girls. It was rebuilt for Bacler d’Albe between 1816 (cadastre) and 1824 (death of general). Occupied in 1898 by a convalescent home for colonial soldiers, it is currently the Samuel Moorat Armenian College, but it is currently threatened, taking into account its state.

The manufacture of crystals of the Queen

The building of this factory, located at 16 Rue Troyon and built in 1744, was classified in the inventory of historical monuments on 1 December 1986.

The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres

The current building dates from 1876. This building was classified in the inventory of historical monuments on 30 October 1935. The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres is a public establishment manufacturing ceramic in the tradition of the 18th century.

The Maison des Jardies

The Maison des Jardies is the home of Balzac, Corot and Gambetta who died there on 31 December 1882. This house, located 14 Avenue Gambetta, had been bought by Balzac, which he occupied from 1837 to 1840, and was then leased by Gambetta in 1878.

National Ceramic Museum

Founded in 1824 by Alexandre Brongniart, director of the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, under the name of Ceramic and Vitric Museum. Anxious to present the history of the techniques of ceramics and vitreous materials, through the world and eras, the latter was one of the collections of ceramics of the most varied. The Museum brings together an exceptional selection of pottery, ceramics and porcelain.

Tinh Tam Buddhist Temple

The magnificent Buddhist temple or Tinh Tam pagoda is one of the busiest in France.

Stone quarries

These stone quarries were dug into the hillside and used for wine storage in 1740, divided into 30 galleries including one called Royal Gallery; converted into a brasserie in 1840, which burned down in 1880 and was rebuilt in 1898.

Religious institutions

• Boarding school of the Dominicans:
• Novitiate of the Assumptionists:

Cultural heritage

Sèvres and artworks

Sèvres, near Paris but very rustic, attracted the greatest painters:

• Samuel William Reynolds painted Saint-Cloud et le pont de Sèvres (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
• The Douanier Rousseau painted in 1908 a Vue du pont de Sèvres (The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
• Sisley, who lived in Grand-Rue, painted the former factory, the bridge and the banks of the Seine, paths
• Corot is painted his famous Chemin de Sèvres (Musée du Louvre)
• Paul Huet painted are tasty and country views as possible (Musée de l’Île-de-France, Sceaux)
• Marie Bracquemond, wife of Félix Bracquemond (Le Chemin des Coutures à Sèvres, National Gallery of Canada) linked to the Group of impressionists and employed at the factory, is painted Sèvres. His most famous work: Sur la terrasse de Sèvres avec Fantin-Latour (leg. Caillebotte).
• Constant Troyon born in Sèvres in 1810, first painter of the Barbizon school are painted Chemin de forêt and the Maison Colas, the Prise de la culée du pont de Sèvres. Constant Troyon’s parents worked at the manufacture de Sèvres, his father as a painter decorator, and his mother as a buffer.
• Wassily Kandinsky lived for a year in Sèvres, in 1906-1907, at the Rue des Ursulines and then small Rue des Binelles, became Rue Théodore Deck. He painted the La Vie Mélangée.
• Alain Azémar, a painter from Sèvres, living in the Rue de Caves, a street which was the theatre of many “squats” protest-painted scenes of Sèvres on many occasions. Many of his watercolours were commissioned and are displayed by the city hall.

Events

On the last Saturday of September is “The Dictation of Sèvres” writing competition. This has been held since 2007.