Joinville-le-Pont is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the southeastern suburbs of Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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. It is located 9.4 km (5.8 mi) from the center of Paris

Kilometre Zero

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History

The commune was created in 1791 under the name La Branche-du-Pont-de-Saint-Maur (literally "The Branch of Saint-Maur's Bridge") by detaching its territory from the commune of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés

Saint-Maur-des-Fossés

Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 11.7 km. from the center of Paris.-The abbey:...

. The commune was renamed Joinville-le-Pont (literally "Joinville the Bridge") on 29 August 1831. Under Louis-Philippe of France

Louis-Philippe of France

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, the Redoute de Gravelle

Redoute de Gravelle

The redoute de Gravelle is a fort in Joinville-le-Pont, situated to the south-east of Vincennes in Paris. Built under Louis-Philippe, from 1968 it housed the École nationale de police de Paris , before becoming an illegal immigrants detention centre...

 was built in the commune.

In 1929, the commune of Joinville-le-Pont lost more than a third of its territory when the city of Paris annexed the Bois de Vincennes

Bois de Vincennes

The Bois de Vincennes is a park in the English landscape manner to the east of Paris. The park is named after the nearby town of Vincennes....

, a part of which belonged to Joinville-le-Pont.

Transport

Joinville-le-Pont is served by Joinville-le-Pont

Joinville-le-Pont (Paris RER)

Joinville-le-Pont is a railway station in the French commune of Joinville-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne, a southeastern suburb of France.-History:Joinville-le-Pont station opened in its current form on 14 December 1969 as part of the initial segment of the RER network with service between Nation in...

 station on Paris RER line A

RER A

The RER A is one of the five lines in the RER rapid transit system serving :Paris, France.The line runs from the western terminuses Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Cergy Le Haut , and Poissy to the eastern terminuses Boissy-Saint-Léger and Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy .* First inauguration: 12 December 1969*...

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