The earliest reference to Villejuif appears in a bill signed by the Pope Callixtus II on 27 November 1119. It refers to Villa Judea, the Latinized version of the Old French expression meaning 'Jewish settlement'. During the following centuries, the toponym appears as Villejuifve, that is, following the archaic French spelling of the expression with the same meaning, cognate to modern French Villejuive. The French author from the 17th century Louis Moréri indicates that the settlement was founded by Jews expelled from Paris. This idea, however, remains speculative as available medieval Christian and Jewish sources do not mention the existence of the Jewish community in this place. An alternative explanation is that the name is a corruption of some earlier, similar-sounding name.[3]
Geography
Climate
Villejuif has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classificationCfb). The average annual temperature in Villejuif is 12.4 °C (54.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 670.1 mm (26.38 in) with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 20.5 °C (68.9 °F), and lowest in December, at around 4.9 °C (40.8 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Villejuif was 40.5 °C (104.9 °F) on 6 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −12.2 °C (10.0 °F) on 8 February 1991.
Climate data for Villejuif (1981–2010 normals, extremes 1989–2014)
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1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.
