Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

Urbanism

Le Kremlin-Bicêtre 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

Toponymy

The name has roots both in England and Russia. Le Kremlin-Bicêtre was originally a hamlet called simply Bicêtre and located within the commune of Gentilly. The name Bicêtre comes from the manor built there by John of Pontoise, Bishop of Winchester (England), in the end of the 13th century. The name of this Manor of Winchester was corrupted into Vinchestre, then Bichestre, and eventually Bicêtre. The Bicêtre Hospital was built starting in 1634 on the ruins of the manor.

In 1813, the Bicêtre Hospital acted as a major reception point for evacuated casualties of the Grande Armée from the French invasion of Russia. Veterans of the invasion of Russia used to gather in a tavern near Bicêtre Hospital. This tavern was soon renamed Au sergent du Kremlin ("At the Kremlin sergeant") in reference to the Moscow Kremlin where the veterans had camped.

Gradually the name Kremlin was used for the whole neighborhood around the Bicêtre Hospital, and appeared for the first time officially in an ordnance map of 1832. Later the names Kremlin and Bicêtre were joined together and became the official name of the area.

History

The commune of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre was created on 13 December 1896 by detaching its territory from the commune of Gentilly.

Population

| graph-pos = bottom |1896 |10804 |1901 |11830 |1906 |13018 |1911 |14907 |1921 |16830 |1926 |18911 |1931 |17453 |1936 |17038 |1946 |14072 |1954 |15618 |1962 |18834 |1968 |20798 |1975 |20061 |1982 |17543 |1990 |19348 |1999 |23724 |2007 |25859 |2012 |26119 |2017 |25334

Transport

Le Kremlin-Bicêtre is served by Le Kremlin-Bicêtre station on Paris Métro Line 7, and Hôpital Bicêtre station on Paris Métro Line 14.

Education

Public primary and secondary schools:

• Five preschools: Benoît-Malon, Jean-Zay, Pauline-Kergomard, Robert-Desnos, Suzanne-Buisson
• Five elementary schools: Benoît-Malon A, Benoît-Malon B, Charles-Péguy, Pierre-Brossolette

Secondary schools:

• Public junior high schools: Collège Jean-Perrin and Collège Albert-Cron
• Public senior high schools: Lycée intercommunal Darius-Milhaud and Lycée Pierre-Brossolette

There is one private elementary and junior high, Jeanne-d'Arc.

Le Kremlin-Bicêtre also has the computer science schools EPITA and EPITECH. The computer programming school Coding Academy, IONIS School of Technology and Management, the Web@cademie and the school E-Artsup are also located in the commune.

Notable residents

• Roger Caillois (1913–1978), writer, sociologist, and literary critic.
• Suzanne Flon (1918–2005), actress and comedian, born at Kremlin-Bicêtre.
• Kamelancien (aka Kamelanc'), rap artist of Moroccan origin, who debuted in 1993.
• (Émile Charles Jean Aldéric Lavialle) was an actor, who died 16 October 1965 in this town.
• Lazare Ponticelli, the last surviving French and Italian veteran of World War I, Resistance member and industrialist, died here in 2008.
• , seven-time French table tennis champion and creator of the Secrétin-Purkart Show, a humorous look at the sport broadcast on television.
• Jean-François Revel, intellectual, lived in this town during the latter part of his life, and he died here in April 2006.

Gallery

File:Kremlin-bicetre-france-mairie-03.jpg|Townhall File:Kremlin-bicetre-france-conservatoire-01.jpg|Music School & cultural center "André Malraux"

Notes

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