Bobigny () is a
commune, or town, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris,
Île-de-France, France. It is located from the
centre of Paris. Bobigny is the
prefecture
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(capital city) of the
Seine-Saint-Denis department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
, as well as the seat of the
Arrondissement of Bobigny. It is the 11th most populous ''commune'' in Seine-Saint-Denis (2019).
Inhabitants are called ''Balbyniens''. Bobigny is the seat of the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture. The first
IKEA
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store in France was located in this commune.
Transport
Bobigny is served by two stations on
Paris Métro Line 5:
Bobigny – Pantin – Raymond Queneau and
Bobigny – Pablo Picasso. It can also be reached from the outer terminus of
Paris Métro Line 7 at
La Courneuve.
Economy
Valeo
Valeo is a French global automotive supplier headquartered in France, listed on the Paris Stock Exchange ( CAC-40 Index). It supplies a wide range of products to automakers and the aftermarket. The Group employs 113,600 people in 33 countries wo ...
has management branches (Valeo Transmissions group and Valeo Friction Materials group) here. It was also the manufacturing base used by
Meccano for French ''
Dinky Toys'' from 1933 until 1970, when the factory was closed and later demolished. Production of Dinky Toys was then transferred to the Meccano factory in
Calais
Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. Th ...
until 1972, when the last new model, a Renault 4 la poste, was produced.
Toponymy
Its name is derived from Roman-period ''Balbiniacum'', "the place of Balbo or Balbinus or Balbinius"; or "of the dumb or silent man/men" (
Gaulish:
Irish Gaelic
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''balbh'' = "dumb, silent").
History
During World War II, approximately 20,000 Jews were shipped from a railway station in Bobigny. Their ultimate destinations were the Nazi camps.
Population
List of mayors
Education
The commune has 14 public preschools (''écoles maternelles''), 15 public elementary schools, four public junior high schools, three public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges, and one private school.
Scolarité et enseignements
" Bobigny. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.
* Junior high schools: Collège Auguste Delaune, Collège Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Collège Pierre Sémard, and Collège République et SEGPA
" Bobigny. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.[
* École, collège et lycée Charles Péguy is a private school from elementary to senior high/sixth-form][
There is also a school of hotel management, École hôtelière de Bobigny.][
The Bobigny campus of Paris 13 University is its second-largest. It focuses on the medical sciences, and hosts a strong medical degree.
]
Personalities
Bobigny is the birthplace of:
* Charles Itandje (born 1982), football goalkeeper
* Gaël Monfils, tennis player
* Valentin Courrent
Valentin Courrent (born August 16, 1982 in Bondy) is a French rugby union player for FC Grenoble in the Top 14 competition. He plays as a fly-half. He has won both the Guinness Premiership and the Top 14, and was the first player to achieve this fe ...
, rugby player
* Odsonne Edouard, football player
Bobigny is the place of death of:
• Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter.
Heraldry
International relations
Bobigny is twinned
Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to:
* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
* Serpukhov
Serpukhov ( rus, Серпухов, p=ˈsʲɛrpʊxəf) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Oka and the Nara Rivers, south from Moscow ( from Moscow Ring Road) on the Moscow—Simferopol highway. The Moscow— T ...
, Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...
(Russia)
See also
* Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department
* Bobigny cemetery
References
External links
Official website
(in French)
{{Authority control
Communes of Seine-Saint-Denis
Prefectures in France