Bondy

For other uses, see Bondy (disambiguation).

Bondy (French pronunciation: [bɔ̃di] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.9 km (6.8 mi) from the centre of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department.

Bondy
Commune
Church of Bondy
Coat of arms
Bondy (in red) on a map of Paris and its inner ring departments
Location of Bondy
Bondy Show map of France Bondy Show map of Île-de-France (region)
Coordinates: 48°54′08″N 2°28′58″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Bobigny
Canton	Bondy
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2022–2026)	Stephen Hervé[1] (LR)
Area 1	5.47 km2 (2.11 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	51,066
• Density	9,300/km2 (24,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	93010 /93140
Elevation	37–65 m (121–213 ft) (avg. 52 m or 171 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Name

The name Bondy was recorded for the first time around AD 600 as Bonitiacum, meaning "estate of Bonitius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

History

Bondy, c. 1780

The Hôtel de Ville

During the Middle Ages, Bondy was mostly forest, and the forest of Bondy was a well-known haunt of bandits and robbers and was considered extremely dangerous.

On 3 January 1905, a third of the territory of Bondy was detached and became the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois.

The current Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1970.^[3]

On 30 October 2007, a gas explosion killed one person and injured 46 people.

Bondy and its integration into Paris is the subject of part of the second-last chapter of Graham Robb's book Parisians.

Administration

Bondy is part of the canton of Bondy, created in 2015.

Transport

Bondy is served by Bondy station on Paris RER line E and the Line 4 (T4) of the Tramways in Île-de-France.

Education

As of 2016^[update] the commune had 27 state-funded primary schools, with 6,900 students. There were also three publicly funded lycées, or senior high schools, and five junior high schools.^[4]

• There are 13 écoles maternelles, or preschools,^[5] and 14 publicly funded elementary schools^[6]
• The junior high schools are named after: Pierre Brossolette, Henri Sellier, Jean Zay, Jean Renoir, and Pierre Curie^[7]
• There are three state-funded high schools: Lycée Léo-Lagrange, Lycée Marcel-Pagnol, and Lycée Jean-Renoir.^[8]

Bondy also has a private Roman Catholic high school, Institut privé de l'Assomption, which has its own elementary school.^[8]

Population growth

The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Bondy proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Bondy ceded the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois in 1906.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 650 —     1800 618 −0.72% 1806 653 +0.92% 1821 605 −0.51% 1831 650 +0.72% 1836 673 +0.70% 1841 719 +1.33% 1846 782 +1.69% 1851 815 +0.83% 1856 1,189 +7.85% 1861 1,458 +4.16% 1866 1,623 +2.17% 1872 1,677 +0.55% 1876 2,018 +4.74% 1881 2,280 +2.47% 1886 3,004 +5.67% 1891 3,638 +3.90% 1896 4,457 +4.14%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 6,353 +7.35% 1906 5,195 −3.94% 1911 7,496 +7.61% 1921 10,104 +3.03% 1926 15,282 +8.63% 1931 19,452 +4.94% 1936 20,539 +1.09% 1946 19,487 −0.52% 1954 22,411 +1.76% 1962 38,039 +6.84% 1968 51,652 +5.23% 1975 48,333 −0.94% 1982 44,301 −1.24% 1990 46,676 +0.65% 1999 46,826 +0.04% 2009 53,448 +1.33% 2014 53,074 −0.14% 2020 53,342 +0.08%
Source: EHESS[9] and INSEE (1968–2020)[10]

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Bondy in 1999

Born in metropolitan France	Born outside metropolitan France
72.2%	27.8%
	Born in overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1	EU-15 immigrants2	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	3.6%	2.7%	3.4%	18.1%
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. 2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Notable people

• Sylvie Bouchet Bellecourt, politician
• Élodie Fontan, actress
• Serge Gakpe, footballer
• Max Hilaire, footballer
• Muriel Hurtis, track and field, athlete
• Jonathan Ikone, footballer
• Steeven Joseph-Monrose, footballer
• Kevin Lafrance, footballer
• David Larose, judoka
• Lartiste, singer
• André Malraux, novelist, art theorist and minister of cultural affairs
• Kylian Mbappé, footballer and currently the captain of the France national football team
• Sylvain Meslien, footballer
• Randal Kolo Muani, footballer
• Guy Moussi, footballer
• Michael Nicoise, footballer
• Maureen Nisima, fencer
• Claude-Carloman de Rulhière, poet and historian
• Wiliam Saliba, footballer
• Lalya Sidibe, basketball player
• Alpha Sissoko, footballer
• Doriane Tahane, basketball player
• Audrey Tcheumeo, judoka
• Teddy Tinmar, athlete
• Karidja Touré, actress
• Bakaye Traoré, footballer
• Fodie Traoré, footballer
• Jimmy Vicaut, athlete
• Thierry Zig, basketball player
• Tiakola, rapper

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department