Charenton le Pont

Charenton le Pont is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is placed 6.2 km from the centre of Paris. It is one of the maximum densely populated municipalities in Europe. The Charenton Psychiatric Hospital is located within the neighboring commune Charenton Saint Maurice, which modified its call in 1842 to Saint Maurice. A Bronze Age hoard of weapons turned into discovered in the river Seine at Charenton within the past due 19th century.

Comprising swords, axes, spear heads and other miscellaneous items, it is now inside the British Museum. On 1 January 1860, the town of Paris was enlarged by using annexing neighboring communes. On that event, half of the commune of Bercy becomes annexed to the city of the Paris and the closing half turned into annexed to Charenton le Pont. In 1929, the commune of Charenton le Pont misplaced approximately a 3rd of its territory when the city of Paris annexed the Bois de Vincennes, a small a part of which belonged to Charenton le Pont.