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Cachan (Municipality, Val-de-Marne, France)

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Flag of Cachan - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 24 January 2023

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Presentation of Cachan

Cachan (30,592 inhabitants in 2021; 274 ha) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, in the department of Val-de-Marne. Cachan was originally a hamlet within the commune of Arcueil. The commune of Cachan was created on 26 December 1922.

The landscape of Cachan is deeply marked by the presence of the aqueducts which cross its territory:

  • The Vanne Aqueduct. Completed in 1874, the gritstone structure, the work of Eugène Belgrand, carries spring water from the Vanne to the Montsouris reservoir in Paris.
  • The Gallo-Roman aqueduct built between the 2nd and 3rd centuries probably supplied the thermal baths of Cluny in Paris. Some vestiges are still visible such as one of its pillars, embedded in one of the two wings of the Château des Arcs.
  • The Medici Aqueduct was built by order of Marie de Medici from 1613 to supply the Luxembourg Palace (garden and castle).
  • The Aqueduct of Loing and Lunain, built in 1900 in order to increase the volume of water intended for Paris by exploiting a tributary of the Seine.
  • The Rungis manholes: small stone constructions that allow you to check the quality of the water and the condition of the pipes of the Medici aqueduct.

The École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (also ENS Paris-Saclay or Normale Sup' Paris-Saclay), formerly ENS Cachan, left Cachan in 2019 and is now located in Gif-sur-Yvette within the Essonne department, on
the Saclay plateau, France's "Silicon Valley".

Olivier Touzeau, 24 January 2023

Flag of Cachan

The flag is white with logo: photo (2008), photo (2014), photo (2019), photo (2021).

On the logo of the commune, designed in 1987, at the top left, a leaf on a green background underlines the rural tradition of the old village and the presence in the current town of many green spaces. In the right part of the logo is the initial of the city, a "C" on a yellow background which also represents a sun. At the bottom, two lines and three arches on a red background evoke the aqueducts of the Vanne and the Loing-Lunain, the underground one of Rungis, and the river Bièvre, currently underground in Cachan. (source : official website).

Olivier Touzeau, 24 January 2023