Canton of L'Haÿ-les-Roses

L'Haÿ-les-Roses (French: [laj.le.ʁoz] (listen)) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 8.5 km (5.3 mi) from the centre of Paris. L'Haÿ-les-Roses is a sous-préfecture of the Val-de-Marne département, being the seat of the Arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses. L'Haÿ-les-Roses owes the second part of its name to a famous rose garden located there.

The arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses (French: [laj le ʁɔz]) is an arrondissement of France in the Val-de-Marne department in the Île-de-France region. It has 18 communes. Its population is 558,539 (2016), and its area is 88.9 km2 (34.3 sq mi).

Roseraie du Val-de-Marne or Roseraie de L'Haÿ is a rose garden in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Val-de-Marne, France.

The canton of Cachan is an administrative division of the Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Cachan.It consists of the following communes: Arcueil Cachan

Cachan (French pronunciation: [kaʃɑ̃] (listen)) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 6.7 km (4.2 mi) from the center of Paris. The prestigious École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and École Spéciale des Travaux Publics are located there.

L'Haÿ-les-Roses station is underground station on Line 14 of the Paris Métro. It is part of the Grand Paris Express project. The station is located in the commune of L'Haÿ-les-Roses at the intersection of Rue de Bicêtre, Rue de Lallier and Rue Paul Hochart. The station opened on 24 June 2024 as part of the extension of Line 14 from Olympiades to Aéroport d'Orly.

The École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (also ENS Paris-Saclay or Normale Sup' Paris-Saclay), formerly ENS Cachan, is a grande école and a constituent member of Paris-Saclay University. It was established in 1892. It is located in Gif-sur-Yvette within the Essonne department near Paris, Île-de-France, France. ENS Paris-Saclay is one of the most prestigious and selective French grandes écoles. Like all other grandes écoles, this elite higher education institution is not included in the mainstream framework of the French public universities. Along with the École normale supérieure (Paris), ENS Lyon and ENS Rennes, the school belongs to the informal network of French écoles normales supérieures, forming the top level of research and education in the French higher educational system. In 2014, ENS Paris-Saclay became a founding member of the Paris-Saclay University, an initiative to integrate and combine resources from a number of different grandes écoles, public universities, and research institutions. The school moved in 2019 to a new campus located in the commune of Gif-sur-Yvette on the Saclay plateau, France's "Silicon Valley," where it will be near other members of the Paris-Saclay research-intensive and business cluster.

Villejuif–Gustave Roussy station is an upcoming underground station on Line 14 and Line 15 of the Paris Métro. It is part of the Grand Paris Express project. The station is located in the town of Villejuif near the Institut Gustave Roussy. The rest of Line 14 opened before the station on 24 June 2024. For the first few months of operation, Villejuif–Gustave Roussy will serve as an emergency exit, but trains will pass through without serving the station. The Line 14 platform is expected to open for service in December 2024 and the Line 15 platform is expected to be put into service with the rest of the line in late 2025.

Gustave Roussy is the first leader cancer-research hospital in Europe and ranked among the top 5 best specialized hospitals in the world . It is a centre for high quality patient care, research and teaching. It is highly-known for the treatment of (among others): skin cancers like melanoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer. It provides access to care with many expert doctors who have historically revolutionized the treatment of cancer and contributed to the surge of new molecules in the treatment of cancers and tumors. It is located in the Parisian area. It is named after Gustave Roussy, a Swiss-French neuropathologist.

The Sid Ahmed Ghlam case (French: Affaire Sid Ahmed Ghlam) concerns the April 2015 murder of Aurélie Châtelain and planning of an Islamic terrorist attack against a church in Villejuif, France, by an Algerian national, Sid Ahmed Ghlam. In November 2020, he was sentenced to life in prison by a Paris court. This sentence was upheld on appeal in October 2021. Ghlam had made journeys to Syria in October 2014 and February 2015. There, on at least one occasion he had met Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the terrorists who perpetrated the November 2015 Paris attacks.

Chevilly-Larue (French pronunciation: [ʃəviji laʁy] (listen)) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.3 km (5.8 mi) from the center of Paris.

The Battle of Chevilly was fought during the siege of Paris. The battle was the second French sortie from Paris against the German armies. On 30 September 1870 General Joseph Vinoy attacked the Prussian VI Corps at Chevilly and was easily repulsed. The Prussian VI Corps commanded by General Von Trumpling repulsed an attempt by the French army from Paris led by General Joseph Vinoy; The French army in the battle suffered greater losses than the Prussian army.General Vinoy - who commanded a corps includes all regular forces finally of France during the war , has conducted an "attack reconnaissance" nonsense on the left bank of the Seine on September 30, 1870: with Twenty thousand men, under the cannons of the fortresses of Bicêtre and Ivry, he proceeded to raid the villages of L'Hay, Chevilly and Thiaïs. The Prussian VI Corps had no difficulty crushing and forcing Vinoy's forces to flee in chaos. Due to large losses, the French requested a ceasefire for burialmartyrs and sending wounded soldiers to the rear.Two weeks after the defeat at the Battle of Chevilly, Vinoy launched another siege on October 13, 1870 in the Battle of Châtillon, which also ended with the defeat of the French.