Port-de-Bouc

Port-de-Bouc is a common French, located in the department of the Rhone delta and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure. Its inhabitants is called the Port of Boucains (or also buciportains).

Geography

Port-de-Bouc is located at the mouth of the Canal of Caronte which connects the Pond of Berre to the Mediterranean.

History

The September 2nd 1866, Port-de-Bouc became a commune.

Embracing the sea, the city affirms its calling industrial and maritime, it becomes marine ground. The art of the boats, of the transformation of energies resulting from the sea found its home port.

In 1850 for the development of the commercial port, as well as industrial activities such as the saline ones, the factory lead, we are in 1876 for the installation of drying room Cabissol the cod of Lèque, we are in 1894 for the opening of the oil refinery “Phocéenne”. We are finally in 1899, with the door of the 20th century when the Building sites and Workshops of Provence, specialized in naval construction are established in Port-de-Bouc. A few years later, two factories of chemicals, Saint-Gobain and Kuhlman, choose they also Port-de-Bouc. During this period, the population increases and diversifies. It acquired its statute of hospital city there. In 1966, the city records 14 000 inhabitants of thousand horizons. French, Spaniards, Maltese, Italians, Greeks… Wearing of Goat is a country where the voice of the men to the songs of hope, life, freedom reasons.

First fracture, which has occurred in 1966, the shipyards which forged the identity of the city, whose streets today still carry indelible traces, closes their doors. A major economic event which destabilizes all the city. Two thousand employment disappears carrying with them dreams from boats, ships and of ocean. The closing of the building sites remains a wound, whose scar is not closed again.

As of this first undergone shock, with him the fol hope raised by the creation of the industrial park of Fos flies away. In the Seventies all the area lives from the point of view of the gigantic industrial complex of Fos-sur-Mer. One expects the creation of thousands of employment, of the Lorraine steelmakers arrive in the area, decided to contribute to the promised development.

Port-de-Bouc has land reserves, and pushed by the national authorities faces the arrival of 7 500 new inhabitants by building infrastructures of reception… This hope for the city and the whole of the families will have lasted only a few years.

Disillusion occurs in 1975 with the stop of the development of the Z.I of Fos, follow-up of near by the crisis of the iron and steel industry which strikes at once the units of Solmer and Ugine Acier.

An opposed destiny, and as many memories of courage and fights, Port of Goat starts the third millennium with considerable assets. Its geographical location, crossroads maritime and terrestrial is impossible to circumvent.

Single Shouted public of all area PACA for the sale of fish, its two fishing ports accommodate an important fleet of trawlers. The more so as the city knew with coherence to introduce the establishment of companies of transformation of the products of the sea.

Neighbor of the linked activities to fishing, pleasure; the port shelters boats from all Europe. Wearing of Goat plays the chart reception for thousands of visitors attracted by the sea.

Requalification urban undertaken since ten years gave a new face to Port of Bouc.Tout by improving the framework of life of the Port of Boucains, the attractivity of the city was reinforced.

Administration

|- | align=right| July 1887 - November 1896 || Antoine Landrivon || ? || Mayor |- |- | align=right| February 1941 - August 1944 || Jules Crétinon || ? || Mayor |- |- | align=right| August 1944 - May 1990 || Rene Rieubon || PCF || Mayor |- |- | align=right| May 1990 - June 2005 || Michel Vaxès || PCF || Mayor |- | align=center| June 2005 || Patricia Fernandez || PCF || Mayor

Demography

Places and monuments

the channel of Arles with Bouc, inaugurated in 1834.
the fort of Goat (12th - 17th centuries)

Personalities related to the commune

Song

Sophie Pondjiclis (mezzo-soprano)
the Large Sophie (French pop singer)
François Valéry (singer)
Kanjar' oc (committed rock group)
Sam Karpénia (singer Mediterranean songs/occitans)

Literature

Franck Membribe (writer)
Paul Valéry (poet/writer)
Charles Crétinon (writer)

Painting and sculpture

Raymond Morals (sculptor on metal works)
Olive (painter)
Maurice Fanciello (painter)
Emile Persiani (artist sculptor on metal)
Emile Bellet (painter)
Georges Coulomb (painter)

Celebrate footballer

Jacques Rémy
Andre-Pierre Gignac

See too

- Sophie Pondjiclis (Mezzo-soprano) It Large Sophie (French Pop singer) - François Valéry (Singer) - Franck Membribe (Writer) - Paul Valéry (Poet/Writer) - Kanjar' oc (committed Rock group) - Museum Morals: 600 metal sculptures on 5.000m2 of exposure

Common of the Rhone delta

External bonds

Port-de-Bouc on the site of the national geographical Institute
Port-de-Bouc on the site of INSEE
Port-de-Bouc on the site of Quid
Localization of Port-de-Bouc on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Port-de-Bouc on Mapquest
Official site of Port-de-Bouc

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