Drancy
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Drancy |
| commune status | Commune |
| image | Drancy multiview 2.png |
| image coat of arms | Blason_Drancy_93.svg |
| image size | 250px |
| caption | From upper left: Hôtel de Ville, Castle of Ladoucette, National Memorial of Deportation |
| map | Drancy_map.svg |
| map caption | Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs |
| coordinates | |
| arrondissement | Le Raincy |
| canton | Drancy and Le Blanc-Mesnil |
| INSEE | 93029 |
| postal code | 93700 |
| mayor | Aude Lagarde |
| term | 2020–2026 |
| intercommunality | Grand Paris |
| elevation min m | 39 |
| elevation max m | 54 |
| area km2 | 7.76 |
| population | |
| population date | |
| population footnotes | |
| :: |
::callout[type=note] the town north of Paris ::
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Drancy () is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in northern France. It is located 10.8 km (6.7 mi) from the center of Paris.
History
Toponymy
The name Drancy comes from Medieval Latin Derenciacum, and before that Terentiacum, meaning "estate of Terentius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.
Origins to 20th century
In the 17th century, Drancy was divided into two distinct villages: Drancy le Grand and le Petit Drancy. The quarter "Village Parisien" is built on the old location of the hamlet of Groslay, which was surrounded by the Forest of Bondy: hence the name of rue des Bois de Groslay. The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1859.
The end of nineteenth century was marked by industrialisation and the development of rail transport. During the Franco-Prussian War, Le Bourget was the site of an important battle and the castle of Ladoucette in Drancy was destroyed.
20th and 21st centuries
Main article: Drancy internment camp
During World War II, Drancy was the site of the Drancy internment camp where Jews, Gypsies, and others were held before being shipped to the Nazi concentration camps. In 1976, the Memorial to the Deportation at Drancy was created by sculptor Shlomo Selinger to commemorate the French Jews imprisoned in the camp. In 2009 the memorial was vandalised. The French government vowed to find those responsible for painting swastikas on it.
Population
| align = none | cols = 2 | percentages = pagr | source = EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017) | graph-pos = bottom |1793 |399 |1800 |193 |1806 |218 |1821 |207 |1831 |258 |1836 |315 |1841 |308 |1846 |352 |1851 |296 |1856 |310 |1861 |420 |1866 |534 |1872 |456 |1876 |446 |1881 |606 |1886 |934 |1891 |1104 |1896 |1096 |1901 |1247 |1906 |1776 |1911 |4190 |1921 |15582 |1926 |31489 |1931 |51156 |1936 |42938 |1946 |42166 |1954 |50654 |1962 |65890 |1968 |68467 |1975 |64430 |1982 |60183 |1990 |60707 |1999 |62263 |2007 |65843 |2012 |67181 |2017 |71318
Immigration
|collectivity_name=Drancy |census_year=1999 |metropolitan_France=75.0 |outside_metropolitan_France=25.0 |overseas_France=2.1 |foreign_French=2.2 |EU-15=6.1 |non-EU-15=14.6
Heraldry
|img1=Blason_Drancy_93.svg |legend1=arms of Drancy |text= The arms of Drancy are blazoned : Azure, on a chevron Or a gothic letter 'D' sable at its summit, between two mullets and a sheep passant argent.
Geography and cityscape
Climate
[[File:Nuvola apps kweather.png|20px]] Data climate for Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis) 1971-2000{{cite web |url = http://www.lameteo.org/LEBOURGETtmoy.html |title = Site de météorologie et de climatologie |work = lameteo.org |language = fr |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110727130458/http://www.lameteo.org/LEBOURGETtmoy.html |archive-date = 2011-07-27 | url=http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/index.php?s=07150&d=2009-08-20 | title=Site de climatologie et de météorologie | work=infoclimat.fr/accueil/ |language=fr}} ::data[format=table]
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Déc | Year | Average low °C | Average °C | Average high °C | Precipitation mm | Sunshine hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0,9 | 1,3 | 2,9 | 5 | 8,3 | 11,2 | 12,9 | 12,7 | 10,6 | 7,7 | 3,8 | 1,7 | 6,6 | ||||||
| 4 | 4,5 | 7,3 | 9,7 | 13,7 | 16,5 | 18,9 | 18,8 | 15,5 | 11,5 | 7 | 5 | 11,9 | ||||||
| 6 | 7,6 | 10,8 | 14,4 | 18,2 | 21,5 | 24 | 23,8 | 20,9 | 16 | 10,1 | 6,8 | 15 | ||||||
| 54.3 | 46.1 | 53.5 | 46.5 | 63.3 | 57.8 | 53.6 | 51.6 | 53.8 | 55.5 | 55.8 | 55.6 | 647.3 | ||||||
| 55.6 | 87.5 | 129.4 | 172.8 | 201.4 | 218.8 | 239.1 | 221.1 | 173.3 | 125.8 | 75.2 | 50.6 | 1749.5 | ||||||
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Architecture
Drancy's buildings are too diverse to be characterised by any particular architectural style. Some of them with a style Art Nouveau are typical of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are housing estates and a garden city.
Park and Castle of Ladoucette
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Parc_de_ladoucette.jpg" caption="The parc de Ladoucette."] ::
The parc de Ladoucette is the only park of Drancy. It contains a pond, a small educational farm and the castle of Ladoucette. The castle was built in 1533 by Pierre Séguier. In the 19th century, the castle was the property of the senator Charles-Loetitia de Ladoucette. In 1874 his wife, la Baronne de Ladoucette, died and her body was placed in the Mausoleum de la Baronne de Ladoucette. Today she is buried in the Parisian cemetery.
Urbanism
Drancy is an urban commune, as it is one of the dense or intermediate density communes, as defined by the Insee communal density grid. It belongs to the urban unit of Paris, an inter-departmental conurbation comprising 407 communes and 10,785,092 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is a suburban commune.
The commune is also part of the functional area of Paris where it is located in the main population and employment centre of the functional area. This area comprises 1,929 communes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4806694|title=En France, neuf personnes sur dix vivent dans l'aire d'attraction d'une ville |author1=Marie-Pierre de Bellefon|author2=Pascal Eusebio |author3=Jocelyn Forest |author4=Olivier Pégaz-Blanc |author5=Raymond Warnod |author6=(Insee) |date=October 21, 2020|website=Insee website|access-date=March 15, 2024}}
Administration
Part of the commune forms the canton of Drancy. The other part belongs to the canton of Le Blanc-Mesnil.
Transport
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Gare_de_Drancy_02.jpg" caption="Railway station of Drancy"] ::
Railways and buses
The city is served by Le Bourget station and by Drancy station on Paris RER line B. Le Bourget station is situated near Drancy as well as the métro station La Courneuve–8 mai 1945 on the Line 7. The RER B is one of the five lines in the RER Rapid transit system serving Paris and its suburbs.
Drancy is also served by the Paris Tramway Line 1 with five stops and by twelve bus lines.
By the RER B, Drancy is near many Parisian railway stations, Gare du Nord is now just 10 minutes away, Gare Saint-Lazare and Gare de Lyon can be reached in 30 minutes. Charles de Gaulle Airport can also be reached in 30 minutes.
Roads
Drancy is served by the A3 motorway and the A86 motorways.
Education
Schools:
- 17 public preschools (écoles maternelles)
- 19 public elementary schools
- Six public junior high schools (collèges): Paul Bert, Anatole France, Jorissen, Paul Langevin, Liberte, Pierre Samard
- One private junior high school, Collège Saint-Germain
- Two public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges: Lycée Eugène Delacroix and Lycée Paul le Rolland
International relations
Drancy is twinned with: :United Kingdom Willenhall :Germany Eisenhüttenstadt :Senegal Gorée :Serbia Svilajnac
Notes
References
References
- (2 December 2020). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires".
- "Hôtel de Ville de Drancy". Structurae.
- (12 April 2009). "Holocaust memorial in France defaced with swastikas".
- {{Cassini-Ehess. 15963. Drancy
- [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-93029#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
- Nicolas Grenier, french poet, has written a poem about this parc de Ladoucette
- (16 June 2016). "Exhibition of the French artist Gerard Stricher in the Castle of Ladoucette to Drancy (France)".
- "Parc de Ladoucette".
- "Typologie urbain / rural".
- "Commune urbaine - définition".
- "Comprendre la grille de densité".
- "Unité urbaine 2020 de Paris". INSEE.
- (October 21, 2020). "Base des unités urbaines 2020".
- Costemalle, Vianney. (October 21, 2020). "Toujours plus d'habitants dans les unités urbaines".
- "Aire d'attraction des villes 2020 de Paris". [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques.
- "Site de la RATP - Drancy-Le Bourget".
- "Site de la RATP - Le tramway 1".
- link. (2016-09-28 ." Drancy. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.)
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