Hôtel de Ville, Issy-les-Moulineaux

The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, standing on Rue du Général Leclerc.

[1] In late 19th century, after the commune expanded to the west, the town council decided to acquire a more substantial building more to the centre of the enlarged area.

[2] The building was acquired from the Langlet family for FFr 185,000 and, after being converted for municipal use to a design by Louis Bonnier, it was officially re-opened by the minister for public works, Ludovic Dupuy-Dutemps, on 13 October 1895.

[4][5] In 1942, during the Second World War, a French Resistance group known as the "Mouvement de Libération Nationale" was secretly established in the town hall.

[7] A war memorial, created by the sculptor, Jean Joachim, intended to commemorate the lives of members of the French Liberation Army and the French Forces of the Interior who died in the Second World War, as well as other people transported to their deaths in concentration camps, was unveiled in the park behind the town hall in 1959.

"La Vie" by Victor Prouvé