Chatou, town, Yvelines département, Île-de-France région, north-central France, on the Seine River. Chatou is a northwestern residential suburb of Paris, with some light manufacturing. It is the birthplace (1880) of the painter André Derain. Pop. (1999) 28,588; (2014 est.) 30,876.

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