Villejuif

Villejuif
Villejuif
	Institut Gustave-Roussy - Main Building
	; Coat of arms
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	; Paris and inner ring departments
	Coordinates: 48°47′31″N 2°21′49″E / 48.7919°N 2.3636°ECoordinates: 48°47′31″N 2°21′49″E / 48.7919°N 2.3636°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	L'Haÿ-les-Roses
Canton	Villejuif-Est (Chef-lieu); Villejuif-Ouest (Chef-lieu)
Intercommunality	Val de Bièvre
Government
• Mayor	Franck Le Bohellec
Area1	5.34 km2 (2.06 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	53,240
• Density	10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	94076 / 94800
Elevation	62–130 m (203–427 ft)
Website	[1]
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Villejuif (pronounced: [vilʒɥif]) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 7 km (4.3 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Name[edit]

The name Villejuif can be literally translated as "Jewish Town", but the area has no historical connections with the Jewish population of Paris. The name is believed to be a corruption of a Gallo-Roman name, Ville Juvius, meaning the villa of Juvius.^[1]

Demographics[edit]

Population[edit]

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,362	—
1800	1,137	−16.5%
1806	1,320	+16.1%
1821	1,278	−3.2%
1831	1,377	+7.7%
1836	1,652	+20.0%
1841	1,503	−9.0%
1846	1,587	+5.6%
1851	1,514	−4.6%
1856	1,559	+3.0%
1861	1,813	+16.3%
1866	2,308	+27.3%
1872	1,917	−16.9%
1876	2,117	+10.4%
1881	2,678	+26.5%
1886	3,163	+18.1%
1891	4,294	+35.8%
1896	5,234	+21.9%
1901	5,835	+11.5%
1906	6,600	+13.1%
1911	8,671	+31.4%
1921	11,725	+35.2%
1926	18,751	+59.9%
1931	25,192	+34.4%
1936	27,540	+9.3%
1946	25,359	−7.9%
1954	29,280	+15.5%
1962	46,116	+57.5%
1968	51,120	+10.9%
1975	55,606	+8.8%
1982	52,448	−5.7%
1990	48,405	−7.7%
1999	47,384	−2.1%
2006	51,739	+9.2%

Immigration[edit]

Place of birth of residents of Villejuif in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France	Born outside Metropolitan France
76.1%	23.9%
	Born in Overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹	EU-15 immigrants²	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	2.8%	2.9%	5.6%	12.6%

¹This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest 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), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that 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.
²An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that 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.

Transport[edit]

Villejuif is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 7: Villejuif – Léo Lagrange, Villejuif – Paul Vaillant-Couturier, and Villejuif – Louis Aragon.

Personalities[edit]

Camille Loiseau, the Doyenne de France from 26 March 2005 to 12 August 2006, died at the Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif.
Issei Sagawa, the Japanese killer and cannibal, was an inmate at high-security Paul Guiraud hospital in Villejuif, in 1982–1984.
Komitas Vardapet, the founder of modern Armenian classical music.
Vladimir Ghika, Catholic parish priest from 1923-1930, killed in Romania in 1954, beatified 31 August 2013.