13th district of Paris

General information

Demography

The district counted 171.533 inhabitants (census of 1999) on a surface of 715 hectares, that is to say 23.991 hab/km ².

History

The 13th district was created after the extension of Paris carried out in 1860 by integrating parts of the old 12 {{E}} district, of Gentilly and Ivry. A first diagram of classification was to allot number 13 to current the 16 {{E}} district, but was rejected there because of the expression “to marry with the town hall of the 13th district”, which meant “food in cohabitation”, therefore out of good conventions. The distribution of the districts from left to right and from top to bottom was thus abandoned for the current diagram, the shape in spiral.

The districts of the 13th district were pilot of some major technological advancements. It is on the Butte with the Ruails that landed Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d' Arlandes during the first human flight in Aérostat. In 1891, Panhard and Levassor created the first factory of cars close to the Porte of Ivry.

During the 19th century and of part of the 20th century, the 13th district knew a strong industrial activity with for example the presence of the chocolate factory Lombart, the factories Say or SUDAC, factory producing of the compressed air used in the networks of the capital.

The part of the district located at the south of the Place of Italy was the subject of a major transformation in second half of the 20th century. As of before the Second world war, the city Jeanne d' Arc (Boulevard Vincent-Auriol) is partly rebuilt. Others unhealthy small islands are the subject of restorations: the small island n° 13 (Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui), the small island n°4 (around the National Place), the small island Beaver.

The most important operation is however the operation Italy 13. Inspired by the urban theories of Le Corbusier, it was to reorganize a zone going of the Hillock to Ruails with the street Nationale and of the Vincent-Auriol boulevard to the door of Italy. It left in 13th more than thirty turns of a hundred meters height, of which in particular the district on flagstone of the Olympiads.

It is at the time when this operation stopped, in the middle of the years 1970, that the first Vietnamese refugees arrived in the district, where they occupied the new but mainly unoccupied towers. Other waves of refugees or immigrants of Southeast Asia, especially Kampuchean and Laotian, then from China came to transform part of the south of the district into Asian truth district, without however forming a quasi-ghetto as in some Chinatown S.

New great work was undertaken in the east of the district as from the years 1990 with the construction of the National library of France and the vast new district Paris Left bank. It is still about the one of the largest building sites of France.

The August 26th 2005, a fire made 17 died, including 14 children, in a building occupied by African families with 20, boulevard Vincent-Auriol.

Geography and equipment

The heart of the district is the Place of Italy. Of circular form, it constitutes the convergence point of the principal avenues and boulevards of the district, as well as underground lines. It is there that meet the districts of the district: Hillock with the Ruails, Goblins, Asian district.

The only district which really escapes attraction from the place from Italy is the zone Paris Left bank, in the course of construction along the Seine. Separated from the remainder of the district by the railways, partially covered, this district turns to Right Bank via the park of Bercy and the line 14 of the subway. It should in the long term occupy all bank of the Seine from the station of Austerlitz to the ring road.

Districts

Administrative districts

Each Parisian district is divided administratively into four districts. For the 13th district, they are the following districts:

District of Salpêtrière, limited to north by the boulevards Saint-Marcel and of the Hospital, in the east by the the Seine, in the south by the Boulevard Vincent-Auriol and in the east by the Which occurred of the Goblins. In this sector, one finds in particular the Hôpital of Pity-Salpêtrière and the northern part of Paris Left bank.
District of the Station, limited to north by the Boulevard Vincent-Auriol, to the east by the the Seine, to the south by the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine and of the the Kremlin-Bicêtre and to the east by the Which occurred of Choisy. In this sector one finds in particular the southern Asian district and part of Paris Left bank.
District of the White House, limited to north by the Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, to the east by the Which occurred of Choisy, to the south by the communes of the the Kremlin-Bicêtre and of Gentilly and to the west by the streets of the Admiral-Mouchez and Health.
District of Croulebarbe, limited to north by the Boulevard of Port-Royal, to the east by the Which occurred of the Goblins, to the south by the Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui and to the west by the street of Health. Avenue of the Goblins are the Manufacture of the Goblins as well as many restaurants and cinemas.

Districts with the common direction of the term

the Hillock with the Ruails
the Asian district
the Suburb Saint-Marcel
Paris Left bank or the Seine Left bank: one of the largest building sites of France, which occupies all the oriental party of the district along the Seine.

Streets, places, green areas

Green areas:

Park of Choisy
Park Kellermann
Garden of the Mill of the Point

For a list of ways and places of the 13th district, see category “Ways of the 13 {{E}} district of Paris”.

Monuments

National library of France (BNF)
Swimming pool of the Ridge-with-Ruails
Station of Austerlitz
Manufacture of the Goblins
Hospital of Pity-Salpêtrière: built on the site of an old explosives magazine, the hospital consists of a whole of buildings built during the centuries. In the medium is the Saint-Louis church of Salpêtrière.

Culture and company

Religion

13th is a district where the cultural mixture is important. It is there many places of worship for various religions.

catholic Worship:

Notre-Dame church of the Station, place Jeanne d' Arc
Vault Notre-Dame of Wisdom, 15 rue Abel Gance
church Holy-Anne of the Ridge-with-Ruails, 186/188 rue de Tolbiac
church Saint-Hippolyte, 27 avenue de Choisy
church Saint-Marcel, 82 boulevard de l'Hôpital
church Holy-Rosalie, 50 boulevard Auguste Blanqui
Midsummer's Day church of the Two-Mills, 185/187 rue du Château des Rentiers
church Saint-Albert Large the, 123 rue de la Santé

protesting Worship:

church reformed of Royal Port, 18 boulevard Arago
evangelic church Lutheran of the Trinity, 172 boulevard Vincent Auriol
evangelic reformed church, 83 rue de l'Amiral Mouchez
evangelic church of the Goblins, 3 bis rue des Gobelins

orthodoxe Worship:

orthodoxe church of France, parish Saint-Irenee, 96 boulevard Auguste Blanqui

Worship Jew:

Synagog Sidi Fredj Halimi, 61 rue Vergniaud
Synagog Avoth ouvanim, 66 avenue d'Ivry

Buddhist Worship

two pagodas, one on the flagstone of the Olympiads and the other below (street of the Disc)

Music

The 13th district presents a certain concentration of young people poured in the world of event-driven, the cinema and the music as the group of Rap Mafia Trece , the association Jab which promotes the realization of short films, PG creative Crew of Jepsounds.com , site devoted to the universe of the electronic musics, the D12 TEAM which represents one of the bastions of the videogame of the Paris region (as well as an enormous capacity to make ball) and finally Cathare prod , production company of the new generation in the line of the '' Nuls ''.

Public transport

The district is served by five lines of subway, a line of the RER and a line of tram:

line 5 ( Place of Italy - Bobigny ): district of the Hospital and the place of Italy.
line 6 ( Charles of Gaulle-Star - Nation ): crossed district of the west in the east.
line 7 ( Villejuif-Town hall of Ivry - Courneuve ): crossing of the district of north in the south.
line 10 ( Boulogne/Door of St Cloud - Station of Austerlitz ): park of Austerlitz.
line 14 ( Olympiades - Station Saint-Lazare ): Library François Mitterrand and Olympiades.
THE RER C : along the Seine.
T3 (tram), open on December 16th, 2006: Boulevards of the Marshals in the south of the district.

The line 14 was prolonged on June 26th, 2007 of Library François Mitterrand in Olympiades. According to the Information system strategic plan of the area Ile-de-France adopted in 2007, the line should, in the long run, join the station White House and ensure the correspondence with line 7.

Many buses serve the 13th district: lines 21,27,47,57,62,64,67,83,89,132,325, PC2.

The North-East of the district, the network the SNCF of the Gare of Austerlitz makes it possible to reach the south of the France. In the south of the district, the Line of Small Belt, closed down today, was used formerly with transport as freight.

Life of the district

Education

The 13th district counts:

33 nursery schools
30 elementary schools
16 colleges of which:

college Claude Monet

college Gabriel Fauré

college Gustave Flaubert

college Thomas Mann, open in 2002

And some private colleges like:

Notre Dame de France
Saint-Anne
Notre-Dame of the Station

15 colleges :

Public

College Claude Monet
College Gabriel Fauré
College Rodin
College Tolbiac

Deprived

College Jacob Kaplan
College Notre-Dame

Some university centres :

Medical college Paris VI Pitié Salpêtrière (Medicine)

University Paris VII - Denis Diderot (Letters and Social sciences - Sciences - Health)

the House of the economic scenes (economic scenes)

Center Rene-Cassin University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (Right)

Center Pierre-Mendès-France University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (Social sciences - Economy - Management - Arts)

10 schools of higher education :

physical National school of chemistry and biology of Paris

School of the Goblins

Estienne University of Arts and Graphic Industries

School of the Nurses of Pity-Salpêtrière IFSI

3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of arts and trades

3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of telecommunications

Arts

The 13th district profits from a certain dimension on the artistic level thanks to the presence of many galleries of avant-garde on the street Louise-Weiss. In the same district, immense the Refrigerators, old cold stores, lodges many workshops of artists since the beginning of the Années 1980.

In architecture, few districts provided as many opportunities to the modern architects. The 13th account consequently of the achievements of the great names of the 20th century and the contemporary time, among which:

two of the very rare buildings built by Le Corbusier in Paris: the Planeix house of the 26, Boulevard Masséna (1924) and the Salvation Army, located between the street Cantagrel and the street of Chevaleret (1934).
the important whole of residences of the High-Forms, of Christian de Portzamparc (1975), which precedes the concept of “open small island” that the architect uses now in the district Paris Left bank.
the first construction of Norman Foster in Paris: an office building to the angle of the street New-of-Tolbiac and Which occurred of France (2004).

Sports equipment

The 13th district has approximately 50 sports complexes, which does of him one of the districts best equipped. Many is located where are also less than 20 years and the others are dispersed in the district. Inter alia, we can find there many stages, gymnasia and swimming pools of which:

the Swimming pool of the Ridge-with-Ruails.
the very new Joséphine-Baker swimming pool, floating swimming pool on the Seine.
the Stage Charléty, with the limit of 14th.
the Stage Carpentier, Masséna boulevard.

Association

the Barge of the Heart, association accommodating the homeless persons sent by the social services

Literary evocations

Part of the Misérables of Victor Hugo proceeds in current the 13th district (Boulevard of the Hospital). One can also quote Brouillard with the bridge of Tolbiac of Léo Malet (neighborhood of the Rue Watt).

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