Bobigny

Geography and town planning

Bobigny is a city of the North-eastern suburbs of Paris located at three kilometers of the doors of Paris, on Northern bank of the Canal of Ourcq. It is established in a plain at an average altitude of 55 meters altitude. The south and the west of the commune are primarily occupied by zones of economic activity, the downtown area consists of a dense collective habitat (tower blocks) surrounding of the utility services (town hall, prefecture, center-commercial Bobigny 2) and the north and the North-East of the city (bordering on Drancy) preserve a habitat of the suburban type old, built at the beginning of the 20th century.

Communes bordering

The city is surrounded of the communes of:

in North: Drancy
in the North-West: Courneuve
in the West: Puppet
in the South: Romainville and Noisy-the-Dryness
in the East: Bondy

Heraldic

History

Bobigny draws its name from Balbinius , name of a Roman former general which created a villa in old the Forêt of Bondy. The name evolved/moved in Balbiniacum then in Baubigny then Bobigny.

The human presence in this place as of the Gallic time is attested by the discovery of an archeological site to the locality “the Cow at Ease”. The Fouille S put at the day a Gallic statue of fourth century BC, first discovered in France.

To the the Middle Ages, the territory belongs partly to the lords of Livry and to the Abbaye of Saint-Denis. The village is composed of a castle, a church and some modest dwellings of peasants. Some noble big families follow one another during the centuries: Perdriel at the 16th century and 17th century, Jacquier de Vieumaison at the 18th century, which have a castle.

In 1789, Bobigny becomes a small commune of two hundred hearts, living primarily of the cereal culture. In 1870, at the time of the seat of Paris, the commune is entirely destroyed. The population takes refuge in Paris, whereas the Prussian invade the ruins of the village. The Ferret abbot reports: The majority of the houses have neither roof any more, nor floor; the church is absolutely battered. In the street, it rains tiles and chimney flues .

The arrival of the Railroad at the end of the 19th century, brings a new rise to the commune. The market-gardening village becomes a working city with the installation of companies calling upon a strong labor. The housing shortage brings the construction of several allotments. As of 1920, the inhabitants elect communist municipalities, and the city forms integral part of the “red suburbs” of Paris.

In 1933, Bobigny becomes famous for the high tower of the workshops of the newspaper the Illustration , installed in the middle of the cultivated fields. The city is besides at that time one of the rare market-gardening cities of the area, having resisted industrialization. From now on, IUT of Bobigny occupies the site of the old printing works of the newspaper. In the same way, just beside this IUT (a few tens of meters) the Medical college of Bobigny, also named is established FR Léonard de Vinci. The building even of the Illustration is used by the first-year students of medicine (PCEM1), because they have course in the R600 amphitheater there since 2006.

During the Second world war, fifteen thousand Juifs will leave the station of Bobigny towards the camp of Auschwitz. The place became since a memorial.

In one decade, of 1954 with 1964, population of double Bobigny, passing from: 18500 with: 37000 inhabitants. This fast increase brings the installation of a vast program of construction of equipment and social housing:
In 1954, Georges Candilis builds the Emmaüs city of Étoile
In 1957, the architect Emile Aillaud is seen entrusting the realization of the city of the Feeding trough on the territory of Bobigny and of the city of Courtillières on the territory of Puppet on behalf of the public office of H.L.M. of the department of the Seine
In 1958, Charles-Gustave Stoskopf, Arthur Heaume and Alexandre Persitz carry out the city of the Bridge-of-Pierre.

January 1st 1968, Bobigny becomes the chief town of the new department of the Seine-Saint-Denis with the creation of the department S of the small-crown. The prefecture is built in 1971. In October and November 1972 took place the Procès of Bobigny, lawsuit of minor having fallen through after a rape, which became a platform for the women's right and the de-penalization of the Avortement. In 1978 the appearance of UFO in the city of the friendship is related in imaginary the balbynien to the multiplication of known personalities of whole France coming from Bobigny. More seriously, it should be noted that Bobigny remains impossible to circumvent in the characterization of the phenomenon suburbs and more precisely of the “neuf-trois”.

The subway arrives at Bobigny in 1985, the tram in 1992 and the has 86 is inaugurated in 1998 by Jean-Claude Gayssot, former deputy of Bobigny and then Ministre for the Equipment, Transport and Housing.

At this beginning of 21e century, the municipality sets up of many projects for the future, in particular the rehabilitation of residences by the destruction of some towers and their replacement by new constructions on more human scale, or a “City of the Earth” devoted to the environment and the Sustainable development on banks of the channel.

At the time of the urban riots of November 2005, the city, chief town of the department where violences started, was relatively preserved, situation which the municipality explains by the frequent meetings of districts and the many structures of dialog installation since 1998. Nevertheless, the city has a high rate of criminality for the Seine-Saint-Denis, and among highest of France, the town hall tries to limit violence and to encourage the dialog by the multiplication of the meetings of district and the organization of “sat city” with the inhabitants every two years.

Demography

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Administration

At the departmental level

It lodges the prefecture of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis like various administrations: the Departmental records, the Chamber of commerce and of industry as well as a Court of Bankruptcy.

List successive mayors

Twinnings

Economy

August 1st

Delegation of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Paris.

Transport

Bobigny is served by the stations Bobigny - Puppet - Raymond Queneau, with the limit of Pantin to South-east, and Bobigny - Pablo Picasso serving the downtown area. The line (Saint-Denis - Noisy-the-Dryness) crosses the commune over all its length of West in East.

The railroad of Grande Belt crosses the west and the south of the commune. Currently limited to the traffic freight, the line could reopen with the passenger traffic in the form of a Tram-train, within the framework of the reopening envisaged of this axis towards 2014 (Project Tangentielle North).

The commune is also crossed by RN3 in the south, and by the highway A86, the latter primarily in distinct glaze. The highway A3 mark the limit Is commune (bridge of Bondy).

Parks and green areas

The departmental park of the Shepherdess was arranged on northern bank of the Canal of Ourcq. Undulating with many ways, its flora is made up small timberings and solid masses of shrubs the such Sorbier of the bird-catchers, whose bays red are very appreciate frugivorous birds.

Tourist monuments and places

archaeological excavations on the site of the Cow at ease put at the day a Gallic city of a surface of at least 52 hectares, founded towards 350 before Jesus-Christ and gave up towards 110 after Jesus-Christ. This establishment, is established along the Ru of Montfort, with horse on a small hillock and wetter grounds. A necropolis of 521 tombs was discovered, it is acted of most important known to date as Europe for the Gallic period.

Avicenne hospital

the Hospital Avicenne , in the past Hospital Free-Moslem, was inaugurated in March 1935. The town of Paris not having wanted this structure, Bobigny was selected in order to shelter this hospital, intended to help the Moslem installed in France after the First World War, with the very precarious statute generally. The large gate of entry establishes the architectural link between the Eastern tradition, and the Western modernism, this establishment being regarded as very at a peak at the time.

The political ordering of a hospital free-Moslem and the recruitment of the of Algiers architect Mantout register this building with the forms néo-Moorishes in the colonial reality of the inter-war period.

The Hospital constitutes a CHU attached to the University Paris-North.

Cemetery free-Moslem

the cemetery free-Moslem was also opened in the vicinity in 1937. Its entry is consisted a Moorish arc. A Mosquée was built inside even cemetery.

A military square shelters a whole of tombs of Moslem soldiers died for France, in particular during the Release of Paris in 1944.

Famous personalities of the Muslim world are buried there.

Turn of the Illustration

the tower of the Illustration , sixty meters height was built in 1933 by the newspaper “the Illustration”, weekly magazine which bore this founded name because on the principle of the publication of various and many images in order to decorate its newspaper of sixteen pages. A new ultramodern printing works was then founded in Bobigny for this newspaper which drew then with more than 200.000 specimens. Rehabilitated by the architect Paul Chemetov, it accommodates in particular IUT of Bobigny. Part of the building will be transformed by CROUS into residence hall intended for invited students or researchers. The buildings should be delivered during 2008.

Prefecture and administrative center, built in 1971 by the architects Binoux and Folliasson.

Cité HLM of the Feeding trough 1960, by Emile Aillaud: 500 residences distributed between buildings and six turns with Bobigny and Puppet.

the labor market was inaugurated on May 2nd, 1978. It is the work of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, author of the plans of the town of Brasilia.

The city shelters a medallion of Lénine (on the frontage of the municipal academy Jean Wiener, place of the release), single effigy on a public building with the glory of the famous Russian revolutionist in France.

The city accommodates every two years the biennial of the environment in the departmental park of the Shepherdess.

Culture and artistic activities

August 1st

MC 93

The theater MC93 Bobigny has since a score of years varied programming and great quality in the field of the contemporary Théatre and the Contemporary dance. Large international directors, Peter Sellars, Peter Stein, Frank Castorf, Fiona Shaw, occurred there on several occasions.

It also accommodates many spectacles at the time of the international choreographic Rencontres of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Magic Cinema

the series The Incuisers . It is about the very first series diffused on the Net. Turned by balbiniens, this one recalls the history of a surprising experiment lived in the middle of the years 1970 and of testimony that they deliver to us later nearly a quarter century.

Personalities related to the city

Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny, creators of famous the Astérix
Jean-Claude Gayssot, former deputy of the district and Minister for the Jospin government of 1997 with 2002
the presenter hip hop Sidney
the Soft actor Diouf
the groupr rap Kabal
sprinteuse the Muriel Hurtis, world champion junior in 1998
the singer Wallen and the rappeurs
the rappor Ménélik
the singer Uncle David
the rappor Nakk
the boxer Jean-Marc Mormeck
the scenario writer Rachid Bouchareb
the Belgian singer Jacques Brel is deceased has Bobigny in 1978
the écrivaine Faïza Guène
the sprinter Oudéré Kankarafou, world champion of the 4-100
the tennis player Gaël Monfils

Bobigny in literature

The most famous literary character born in Bobigny is not other than Astérix. Indeed, it is in a HLM with 3, rue Rameau that met Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny and that “was born” in 1959 the famous Gallic one. A street of the city bears besides the name of Rene Goscinny.

Appendices

Internal bond

Common of the Seine-Saint-Denis

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