Bagnolet

Bagnolet (French pronunciation: [baɲɔlɛ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 5.2 km (3.2 mi) from the center of Paris.

Bagnolet
Commune
The Mercurial Towers and Bagnolet town hall, in 2004
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring départements
Location of Bagnolet
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Coordinates: 48°52′09″N 2°25′05″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Bobigny
Canton	Bagnolet
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Tony Di Martino[1]
Area 1	2.57 km2 (0.99 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	41,776
• Density	16,000/km2 (42,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	93006 /93170
Elevation	57–119 m (187–390 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occasion, a small part of the commune of Bagnolet was annexed to the city of Paris. At the same time, the commune of Charonne was disbanded and divided between the city of Paris, Bagnolet, and Montreuil. Bagnolet received a small part of the territory of Charonne.

On 24 July 1867, a part of the territory of Bagnolet was detached and merged with a part of the territory of Romainville and a part of the territory of Pantin to create the commune of Les Lilas.

The town used to be the home of the Château de Bagnolet.

Population

Its inhabitants are called Bagnoletais.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,043 —     1800 953 −1.28% 1806 987 +0.59% 1821 878 −0.78% 1831 1,093 +2.21% 1836 1,090 −0.05% 1841 1,321 +3.92% 1846 1,327 +0.09% 1851 1,298 −0.44% 1856 1,556 +3.69% 1861 2,553 +10.41% 1866 2,924 +2.75% 1872 2,597 −1.96% 1876 2,861 +2.45% 1881 3,839 +6.06% 1886 5,280 +6.58% 1891 6,124 +3.01% 1896 7,116 +3.05%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 8,799 +4.34% 1906 11,770 +5.99% 1911 15,744 +5.99% 1921 20,406 +2.63% 1926 26,538 +5.40% 1931 28,112 +1.16% 1936 28,052 −0.04% 1946 25,059 −1.12% 1954 26,779 +0.83% 1962 31,591 +2.09% 1968 34,054 +1.26% 1975 35,906 +0.76% 1982 32,557 −1.39% 1990 32,600 +0.02% 1999 32,511 −0.03% 2007 34,269 +0.66% 2012 34,920 +0.38% 2017 35,674 +0.43%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Transport

Bagnolet is served by Gallieni station on Paris Metro line 3 and RATP buslines 76,102,115,122,318 545.

International and National coaches serve Bagnolet at Gallieni Metro station.

Notable people

• Jeanne-Marie Barbey (1876-1960), artist and photographer
• Sylvain Distin (born 1977), footballer
• Koffi Djidji (born 1992), footballer
• Henri Verneuil (1920–2002), filmmaker
• Cyril Kongo (born 1969), French graffiti artist

Photos

The old Town Hall.

Church Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles.

Support for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

In December 2013, the city's council voted to make Georges Ibrahim Abdallah an "honorary resident." The city council's motion, which did not mention Abdallah's murder of US diplomat Charles R. Ray and his role in the killing of Yacov Barsimantov, an Israeli diplomat, described him as a "communist activist" and a "political prisoner" who "belongs to the resistance movement of Lebanon" and is a "determined defender of the Palestinian just cause." The motion stated that Abdallah's release was being denied "primarily because of the intervention of the US government" and "To call for his liberation, the municipal council declares him an honorary citizen of Bagnolet."^[5]

In July 2014, the administrative court in Montreuil revoked the city's motion to grant Abdallah honorary citizenship.^[6]

Education

The commune has ten public preschools (maternelles), nine public elementary schools, two public junior high schools (collèges), and a comprehensive public senior high school (lycée polyvalent).^[7]

• Junior high schools: Georges-Politzer and Travail / Langevin
• Lycée général et professionnel Eugène-Hénaff

There is a private junior and high school, Lycée professionnel et technologique Saint-Besnoît de l'Europe.^[7]

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Bagnolet is twinned with:^[8]

• Akbou, Algeria
• Massala, Mali
• Oranienburg, Germany
• Le Robert, Martinique, France
• Shatila, Lebanon
• Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

See also

• France portal

• Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department