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28-716: Sceaux is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine , in the Hauts-de-Seine département , known for the Château de Sceaux Sceaux, Yonne , in the Yonne département Sceaux-d'Anjou , in the Maine-et-Loire département Sceaux-du-Gâtinais , in the Loiret département Sceaux-sur-Huisne , in

56-496: A Louis XIII style , is now the museum of Île-de-France open for visits. Housing costs in the area are very high, higher than in many districts of the Paris area, especially with streets facing the Parc de Sceaux. Sceaux is served by three stations on Paris RER line B : Sceaux , Robinson , and Parc de Sceaux . The latter station is located at the border between the commune of Sceaux and

84-440: A middle school and highly ranked " classes préparatoires " undergraduate training. French scientists and writers have graduated from lycée Lakanal , such as Nobel Prize winners Maurice Allais , Jean Giraudoux , Alain-Fournier and Frédéric Joliot-Curie . There is also a public vocational senior high, Lycée des métiers Florian . There is a private junior high school, Externat Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc. The Faculté Jean Monnet,

112-460: A seven-stop Lockheed Constellation (1049G model) via India. Air France's ten flights a day to London were almost all Vickers Viscounts ; the only other London flight was Alitalia 's daily Douglas DC-6B (BEA was at Le Bourget). A development project voted in 2012 planned to merge the airport's south and west terminals with the construction of an 80,000-square-metre (860,000 sq ft) building to create one great terminal. On 14 April 2016,

140-468: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine Sceaux ( French pronunciation: [so] ) is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the southern suburbs of Paris , France . It is located 9.7 km (6.0 mi) from the centre of Paris . In 2019, Sceaux had a population of 20,004. Sceaux

168-512: Is located on level 1 with more stores and restaurants located here. This central departures area is connected to three gate areas split between Orly 1 (A and B gates) and Orly 2 (C gates). 23 stands at this terminal are equipped with jet-bridges, with several of them also able to handle wide-body aircraft. Inaugurated in April 2019, Terminal 3 is a junction building between Terminals 1, 2 and 4. The terminal allows customers to travel between all areas of

196-511: Is one of the most affluent areas of France and is known for its very high housing costs. Sceaux is famous for the Château de Sceaux , set in its large park ( Parc départemental de Sceaux ), designed by André Le Nôtre , measuring 2 km (0.77 sq mi). The original château was transformed into a School of Agriculture during the Revolution and lost much of its luster. It was demolished at

224-551: The Groupe ADP rolled out the Connect 2020 corporate strategy and the commercial brand Paris Aéroport was applied to all Parisian airports, including the Orly airport. On 7 November 2015, the failure of a two-decade-old Windows 3.1 system which was responsible for communicating visual range information in foggy weather to pilots caused a temporary cease of operations. Whether the failure

252-532: The lycée Marie Curie and the lycée Lakanal . The lycée Marie Curie was named after the scientist who was married in, lived in, and was originally interred in Sceaux with her husband Pierre Curie . The lycée Lakanal was named after a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France, Joseph Lakanal and has remained one of the most prestigious and hardest schools of Île-de-France. The school also offers

280-474: The 6,140-foot (1,870 m) 27/207 (degrees magnetic) runway (later 03R) with 5,170-foot (1,580 m) 81/261 runway (later 08L) crossing it at its north end. The November 1953 Aeradio diagram shows four concrete runways, all 197 feet (60 m) wide: 03L 7,874 ft (2,400 m), 03R 6,069 ft (1,850 m), 08L 5,118 ft (1,560 m) and 08R 6,627 ft (2,020 m). The American United States Army Air Forces 1408th Army Air Force Base Unit

308-684: The Festival de l'Orangerie, takes place in the Orangery built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for the Marquis de Seignelay in 1686, in the Park at Sceaux. The Park also houses an open air opera every summer at the end of June. The Parc de Sceaux was the location of Madonna 's Parisian first visit with her Who's That Girl World Tour 29 August 1987, front 131,000 people, the largest crowd of any concert in French history. In

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336-588: The Germans. After the Battle of Normandy and the retreat of German forces from the Paris area in August 1944, Orly was partially repaired by USAAF combat engineers and was used by Ninth Air Force as tactical airfield A-47. The 50th Fighter Group flew P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber aircraft from the airport until September, then liaison squadrons used the airfield until October 1945. The USAAF diagram from March 1947 shows

364-538: The Sarthe département [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sceaux&oldid=1116795237 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

392-532: The airport under one roof. It includes around 5,000 sqm of duty-free shopping along with several restaurants and lounges. It houses gates D and E, with direct access to Orly 4 departure gates. Formerly known as the South Terminal this innovative 1961 steel-and-glass terminal building consists of six floors. While the smaller basement level −1 as well as the upper levels 2, 3 and 4 contain only some service facilities, restaurants and office space, level 0 features

420-419: The airport, however, is solely under the authority of Aéroports de Paris , which also manages Charles de Gaulle Airport , Le Bourget Airport , and several smaller airports in the suburbs of Paris. Originally known as Villeneuve-Orly Airport , the facility was opened in the southern suburbs of Paris in 1932 as a secondary airport to Le Bourget . Before this two huge airship hangars had been built there by

448-701: The arrivals facilities as well as several shops and service counters. The airside area and departure gates are located on the upper level 1. The waiting area, which features several shops as well, houses gates E and F. 15 of the terminal's departure gates are equipped with jet-bridges, some of which are able to handle wide-body aircraft. The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Orly Airport: AOM French Airlines had its head office in Orly Airport Building 363 in Paray-Vieille-Poste . After AOM and Air Liberté merged in 2001,

476-468: The beginning of the 19th century following its sale by the then French government. Sceaux castle was originally built by Jean-Baptiste Colbert , the minister of finance to Louis XIV and purchased by Louis' illegitimate son, the Duke of Maine in 1699. His duchesse held court in a glittering salon at Sceaux in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The present-day château, rebuilt between 1856 and 1862 in

504-608: The classic French O-Level textbook series for English-speaking pupils, Le Francais d'Aujourd-hui , the Bertillon family move out to Sceaux from inner-city Paris during the course of the book's main narrative. The mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy died in Sceaux in 1857. Alain Delon (actor, singer, filmmaker, and businessman) was born in Sceaux in 1935 The Parc de Sceaux is home to a population of red squirrels estimated to number between 100 and 120. Paris-Orly Airport Before

532-593: The college of Law and Management of University of Paris-XI (Orsay), the Institut Universitaire de Technologie of this university and L'Ecole Polytechnique Féminine (EPF) are also located in Sceaux. The Bibliothèque municipale de Sceaux is the communal library. Sceaux is home to one highly active national theatre, the Théâtre des Gémeaux, located in the Blagis quarter, which is part of the "Scène Nationale" network of

560-610: The commune of Antony , on the Antony side of the border. It is also close to Paris-Orly Airport . Sceaux is connected to the A86 motorway that circles around Paris. The commune also offers a developed network of buses which are often used by the Scéens (the name given to the residents of Sceaux). The commune has the following primary schools: Sceaux hosts two cités scolaires, combined junior high schools and public high schools/sixth-form colleges,

588-550: The engineer Eugène Freyssinet from 1923 on. As a result of the Battle of France in 1940, Orly Airport was used by the occupying German Luftwaffe as a combat airfield, stationing various fighter and bomber units at the airport throughout the occupation. Consequently, Orly was repeatedly attacked by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), destroying much of its infrastructure, and leaving its runways with numerous bomb craters to limit its usefulness to

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616-716: The major theatres in France. The Théâtre des Gémeaux attracts audiences from all over Île-de-France and Paris. Its main event is the Spring dance festival with an international program of the highest quality. The commune also has a small movie theatre, the Trianon, where international movies are released in their respective language and subtitled in French. The theater is also known for showing independent films and hosting special events. Various music events take place at Sceaux. The classical music festival established by Alfred Loewenguth in 1969,

644-463: The new airline, Air Lib, occupied building 363. Orly Airport is directly served by one metro line, a tram line and a people mover, which offer connections to the larger Paris transportation network: As part of the Grand Paris Express project, Aéroport d'Orly station on the metro opened on 24 June 2024. It is by a new extension of Line 14 , linking the airport directly to Paris. From 2027,

672-551: The opening of CDG in 1974, Orly was the main airport of Paris. Even with the shift of most international traffic to CDG, Orly remains the busiest French airport for domestic traffic and the second busiest French airport overall in passenger traffic, with 33,120,685 passengers in 2018. The airport is operated by Groupe ADP under the brand Paris Aéroport . Orly Airport covers 15.3 km (5.9 sq mi) of land. The airport area, including terminals and runways, spans over two départements and seven communes : Management of

700-595: The station will also be served by Line 18 , connecting the airport to Massy-Palaiseau and Paris-Saclay . Orly Airport is connected to the A106 autoroute ( spur of the A6 autoroute ). Paris Aéroport reported in 2023 that a tree-planting project in the vicinity of the airport, along the route of the route nationale 7 , was being undertaken. The scheme involved planting 900 tree species and 14,000 forest seedlings. Paris Aéroport anticipates capturing 329 tonnes of carbon per year through

728-531: Was announced that Air France will largely cease using Orly Airport by summer 2026, with only one public service obligation flight to Corsica to remain. Known as the West Terminal until March 2019, these two terminals consist of two floors and a gate area of four "fingers" rather than a brick-style layout. The ground level 0 features the arrivals facilities including eight baggage reclaim belts as well as several service facilities and shops. The departures area

756-542: Was hardware- or software-based is not specified, though the highlighting of the operating system suggests a software failure. As part of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on aviation , the airport was closed to all commercial traffic from 1 April 2020 to 25 June 2020. During this period, commercial traffic and flights were relocated to Charles de Gaulle Airport , while Orly was still used for State flights, emergency diversions, and medical evacuations. In October 2023, it

784-778: Was the primary operator at Orly Field until March 1947 when control was returned to the French Government. (The United States Air Force leased a small portion of the Airport to support Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) at Rocquencourt ). The Americans left in 1967 as a result of France's withdrawal from NATO's integrated military command, and all non-French NATO forces were asked to leave France. In May 1958, Pan Am Douglas DC-7Cs flew to Los Angeles in 21 hr 56 min; Trans World Airlines , Air France and Pan Am flew nonstop to New York in 14 hrs 10–15 min. Air France flew to Tokyo in 31 hr 5 min via Anchorage or 44 hr 45 min on

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