The commune of Malakoff was created on 8 November 1883 by detaching its territory from the commune of Vanves. Its name was taken from an inn signÀ la Tour de Malakoff ("At the Malakoff Tower"); the inn was so named in 1855 to commemorate the Battle of Malakoff, fought during the Crimean War.[3]
Population
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1886
8,118
—
1891
9,144
+2.41%
1896
11,027
+3.82%
1901
14,341
+5.40%
1906
16,630
+3.01%
1911
19,789
+3.54%
1921
22,494
+1.29%
1926
23,817
+1.15%
1931
27,464
+2.89%
1936
28,439
+0.70%
1946
27,459
−0.35%
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1954
28,876
+0.63%
1962
33,603
+1.91%
1968
36,198
+1.25%
1975
34,121
−0.84%
1982
32,553
−0.67%
1990
30,959
−0.63%
1999
29,402
−0.57%
2007
30,735
+0.56%
2012
30,420
−0.21%
2017
30,720
+0.20%
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Christian Boltanski, sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker, lives and works in Malakoff
Charles Bourseul (1829–1912), scientist, a pioneer in development of the telephone, lived at 62 Rue d'Arcueil (renamed Rue Paul Vaillant-Couturier).
Sophie Calle, artist, lives and works in Malakoff.
Eugène Christophe (1885–1970), cyclist, winner of the Milan-San Remo race and first wearer of the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934), was a psychiatrist, an ethnologist, and a photographer. Lived in a fine villa on Rue Vincent Moris.
Pierre Curie (1859–1906) and Marie Curie (1867–1934) rented a house on Rue du Marché (renamed Rue Gabriel-Crié). They used a shed on the property for their radium experiments (1900 to 1904).
Edmond Lachenal, (1855–1948), potter who opened his first pottery works (from 1880 to 1887) in the city.[1]
Henri Désiré Landru (1869-1922), notorious serial killer, ran a car repair shop on Avenue de Châtillon (renamed Avenue Pierre Brossolette) in the 1910s.
Henri Rousseau, called "The Customs Agent", (1844–1910), painter, took his nickname from the fact that his full-time job was as a Paris customs agent (the octroi) at the Porte de Vanves in Malakoff.
^Dictionnaire des noms de lieux de France (name on cover) alias Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France (name on front endpaper), by A. Dauzat and Ch. Rostaing, publ. 1963 by Librairie Larousse