Pre-Saint-Gervais

Pre-Saint-Gervais is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Saint-Denis and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants, Gervaisiens, call it the Pre .

Geography

The city is located in small North-eastern crown of Paris, in the south of the department of the Seine-Saint-Denis. It is bordering on Paris, Pantin and the Lilacs. The commune is built on the northern side of the hill of Belleville.

Pre-Saint-Gervais is, in surface, the smallest commune of the department of the Seine-Saint-Denis, with only 70ha.

History

The place bears the name of " Pre-Saint-Gervais" since 1217, this name comes from Latin pratum , meadow, and of Gervasius , martyr and saint Milanese whose relic was offered to the church of the place by the Abbaye of Saint-Denis.

The Village remained a long time a simple dependence of Pantin, as well at the level administrative as spiritual, which was at the origin of the combat of the inhabitants to obtain the independence of their parish as of 1588 by the construction of a Chapelle (devoted in 1613). This one was obtained only in 1787.

The common takes the name of " The-pre-Pelletier" in 1794 in homage to the revolutionist Louis-Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau assassinated to have voted the death of the king and to which the property was close to the village; it took again its name of origin in 1801.

In 1814, at the time of the Battle of Paris, the Pre one was devastated by the engagements against the troops wurtembourgeoises.

In 1840, the construction of the Fortifications of Paris isolated it from Belleville. January 1st, 1860, pursuant to the law of June 16th, 1859, the commune, already exiguous, loses twenty-seven Hectares annexed by the town of Paris beyond the fortifications of Paris. Its surface is then reduced to 109 Hectares, before being still limited to 72 Hectares in 1870 after the annexation by Paris of the army grounds.

The first plates of street appeared in Pre-Saint-Gervais in 1881.

In 1914, it is the day before the First World War that Jean Jaurès gave his famous speech on peace to Pre on the Colline of the Belvédère. It had already intervened with the Balcon of the Mairie in 1913 against the passage of the Military service at 3 years.

Demography

Sources:

Administration

Economy

Transport

No station nor subway station is located on the territory of the commune. Nevertheless, four stations are close to Pre Saint-Gervais:

  • Notch (line with Puppet)

  • Door of the Lilacs (lines and, Paris) or Town hall of the Lilacs (line, the Lilacs)
  • Pre Saint-Gervais (the most moved away, located at Paris in the 19th district on the line)

Three lines of bus of the RATP serve the city:

In addition, the commune is skirted by the Ring road of Paris and is served by the exits Porte of Pre-Saint-Gervais, Porte of the Lilacs or Porte of Puppet. Moreover, the Porte of Chaumont binds Paris to Pre-Saint-Gervais but without access to the peripheral.

Lastly, the city places at the disposal a service of bus circulating on its territory: , whose exploitation is ensured by the RATP.

Monuments and places of visit

  • Several sources whose four glances on the Aqueduc builds at the 13th century by the Léproserie of Saint-Lazare (in the place of old the Prison Saint-Lazare with Paris) to forward water of Pre to their establishments. They are classified historic buildings since 1899 whose fountain (place of the town hall) is most important. The Glance of the Hole-Morin , undoubtedly of origin medieval and restored at the 16th century like in 2004, drained water of the slopes of Romainville and the Lilas.
  • the Garden city of Pre-Saint-Gervais - Puppet - the Lilacs (1927-1933 then 1947-1952): it belongs to about fifteen garden cities built by Office HBM the the Seine then directed by Henri Sellier. Conceived by the architect Felix Dumail, it consists of: 1200 multifamily apartments and of 56 individual houses (against 243 envisaged in the beginning), primarily located on the communes of Puppet and Pre-Saint-Gervais. Part of the city is built in Pantin after the Second world war but in a very different style, part called nowadays " city of the auteurs" (228 residences). The city comprises like utility services of the shops, a school (current school Jean Jaurès) and a stage. But the project to build in more one house of the social services, a dispensary and a theater of outdoor will not be carried out. The city is partially protected under the sites.

Culture

Personalities

Twinnings

  • () - Site of the city

External bonds

  • Official site

Notes, sources and references

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