Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious
commune
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** Communes of ...
in the
Paris
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ian area, located from its
centre
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. It is a
subprefecture
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Albania
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of the
Hauts-de-Seine department and thus the seat of the larger
arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt
The arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt is an Arrondissements of France, arrondissement of France in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France (region), Île-de-France Regions of France, region. It has 8 Commune ...
. Boulogne-Billancourt includes two large islands in the
Seine
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Île Saint-Germain
Île Saint-Germain is an island located in the Seine in Issy-les-Moulineaux in the département of Hauts-de-Seine near Paris, France. It once housed a military camp that was later abandoned, but the island was redeveloped in 1980. The island is ...
and
Île Seguin
Île Seguin (Seguin Island) is an island on the Seine river between Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres, in the west suburbs of Paris, France. It has a surface area of approximately 11.5 hectares (28 acres), and is positioned opposite Meudon, a sho ...
. With a population of 121,334 as of 2018, it is the most populous commune in Hauts-de-Seine and most populous suburb of Paris, as well as one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe.
Boulogne-Billancourt is one of the wealthiest regions in the Parisian area and in France. Formerly an important industrial site, it has successfully reconverted into business services and is now home to major communication companies headquartered in the
Val de Seine
The Val de Seine is one of the most important business districts of the Paris agglomeration. Located southwest of the city, it spreads along a bend of the Seine, mainly in the municipalities
of Boulogne-Billancourt and Issy-les-Moulineaux and in t ...
business district
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.
Etymology
The original name of the commune was Boulogne-sur-Seine (meaning "Boulogne upon
Seine
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Before the 14th century, Boulogne was a small village called ''Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud'' (meaning "Menuls near Saint-
Clodoald
Saint Clodoald ( la, C(h)lodoaldus, Cloudus; reconstructed Frankish: ''*Hlōdōwald''; 522 – 560 AD), better known as Saint Cloud (), was a Merovingian prince, grandson of Clovis I and son of Chlodomer, who preferred to renounce royalty and be ...
"). In the beginning of the 14th century, King
Philip IV of France ordered the building in ''Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud'' of a church dedicated to the virgin of the sanctuary of
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...
, then a famous pilgrimage center in northern France. The church, meant to become a pilgrimage centre closer to Paris than the distant city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, was named Notre-Dame de Boulogne la Petite ("Our Lady of Boulogne the Minor"). Gradually, the village of ''Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud'' became known as ''Boulogne-la-Petite'', and later as ''Boulogne-sur-Seine''.
In 1924, ''Boulogne-sur-Seine'' was officially renamed Boulogne-Billancourt to reflect the development of the industrial neighbourhood of Billancourt annexed in 1860.
As for the name Billancourt, it was recorded for the first time in 1150 as ''Bullencort'', sometimes also spelled ''Bollencort''. It comes from
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. Latin functioned ...
''cortem'',
accusative
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In the English language, the only words that occur in the accusative case are pronouns: 'me,' 'him,' 'her,' 'us,' and ‘the ...
of ''cors'', meaning "enclosure", "estate", suffixed to the Germanic
patronym Buolo (meaning "friend, brother, kinsman"), thus having the meaning of "estate of Buolo".
History
![Église Notre Dame Boulogne Billancourt 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/%C3%89glise_Notre_Dame_Boulogne_Billancourt_1.jpg)
On 1 January 1860, the City of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighbouring communes. On that occasion, the communes of
Auteuil Auteuil may refer to:
Places
* Auteuil, Oise, a commune in France
* Auteuil, Paris, a neighborhood of Paris
** Auteuil, Seine, the former commune which was on the outskirts of Paris
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and
Passy were disbanded and divided between Boulogne-Billancourt (then called ''Boulogne-sur-Seine'') and the city of Paris. ''Boulogne-sur-Seine'' received a small part of the territory of Passy, and about half of the territory of Auteuil (including the area of Billancourt, which belonged to the disbanded commune of Auteuil).
Some of the
shooting
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events of the
1900 Summer Olympics took place in Boulogne-Billancourt.
In 1929, the
Bois de Boulogne
The Bois de Boulogne (, "Boulogne woodland") is a large public park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. The land was ceded to the city of Paris by t ...
, which was hitherto divided between the communes of Boulogne-Billancourt and
Neuilly-sur-Seine, was annexed in its entirety by the city of Paris. On that occasion, Boulogne-Billancourt, to which most of the Bois de Boulogne belonged, lost about half of its territory. Since then, Boulogne-Billancourt has been surrounded to the west, south and east by the
Seine
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and to the north and north-east by the
16th arrondissement of Paris.
Boulogne-Billancourt is known for being the birthplace of three major French industries. It was the location, in 1906 for the very first
aircraft
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factory, that of
Appareils d'Aviation Les Frères Voisin
Aéroplanes Voisin was a French aircraft manufacturing company established in 1905 by Gabriel Voisin and his brother Charles, and was continued by Gabriel after Charles died in an automobile accident in 1912; the full official company name then ...
,
which was then followed by those of many other aviation pioneers, and the tradition continues with several aviation related companies still operating in the area.
The
automobile
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industry had a large presence with
Renault
Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured ...
on
Île Seguin
Île Seguin (Seguin Island) is an island on the Seine river between Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres, in the west suburbs of Paris, France. It has a surface area of approximately 11.5 hectares (28 acres), and is positioned opposite Meudon, a sho ...
, as well as
Salmson
Salmson is a French engineering company. Initially a pump manufacturer, it turned to automobile and aeroplane manufacturing in the 20th century,
returning to pump manufacturing in the 1960s, and re-expanded to a number of products and services ...
building both cars and aircraft engines. Finally, the French film industry started here and, from 1922 to 1992 it was the home of the
Billancourt Studios
Billancourt Studios was a film studio in Paris which operated between 1922 and 1992. Located in Boulogne-Billancourt, it was one of the leading French studios. It was founded in the silent era by Henri Diamant-Berger. During the Second World War ...
, and since becoming a major location for French
film production
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...
. It was used as the setting of the TV show ''
Code Lyoko
''Code Lyoko'' () is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by Antefilms Production (season 1) and MoonScoop Group (seasons 2-4) for France 3 and Canal J, with the participation of Conseil ...
''.
Demographics
Urbanism
![Quartiers de Boulogne-Billancourt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Quartiers_de_Boulogne-Billancourt.png)
* The ecologic neighbourhood of the ''Trapèze'' in Boulogne-Billancourt: the district stands on 74 hectares and will be able to house up to 18,000 inhabitants at the end of its construction. 65% of the district's energy is brought by geothermal power, which heats and freshens the buildings. Solar panels and a vegetable greenhouse were installed in the aim to link the district to sustainable energies. Bicycle and "soft" travels will of course be put first to reduce the pollution caused by cars, as well as other vehicles which do not run on electricity.
* The
Ambroise Paré Hospital is located in the city.
Administration
With the city of
Sèvres
Sèvres (, ) is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France region. The commune, which had a population of 23,251 as of 2018, is known for ...
, Boulogne-Billancourt is part of the ''
communauté d'agglomération
An agglomeration community (french: communauté d'agglomération) is a government structure in France, created by the Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of intercommunality, less integrated than a métropole or a communauté urb ...
'' Val de Seine.
Transport
Boulogne-Billancourt is served by two stations on
Paris Métro Line 10:
Boulogne–Jean Jaurès and
Boulogne–Pont de Saint-Cloud. It is also served by three stations on
Paris Métro Line 9
Paris Métro Line 9 is one of 16 lines of the Paris Métro. The line links Pont de Sèvres in Boulogne in the west with Mairie de Montreuil in the east via the city center of Paris, creating a parabola type shape to its route. It is the third b ...
:
Marcel Sembat
Marcel Sembat (, 19 October 1862 – 5 September 1922) was a French Socialist politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 1893 to 1922, and as Minister of Public Works from August 26, 1914, to December 12, 1916.
B ...
,
Billancourt and
Pont de Sèvres
The pont de Sèvres is a bridge above the Seine that links the cities of Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres, in France. The current bridge was put in service in 1963.
The bridge is also above the RD 1 and RD 7 roads, and the Île-de-France tramway ...
.
Politics
Boulogne-Billancourt is represented by two
constituencies
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and therefore two
Members of Parliament
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.
Economy
Boulogne-Billancourt hosts the global headquarters of several multinational companies, including:
*
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel–Lucent S.A. () was a French–American global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being a su ...
*
Boursorama
*
Carrefour
Carrefour () is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France. The eighth-largest retailer in the world by revenue, it operates a chain of hypermarkets, groceries stores and convenience stores, whic ...
*
Française des Jeux
*
Pika Édition Pika Édition is a French publisher headquartered in Vanves, specializing in manga. Founded as a daughter company of Media System Editions, it was taken over by Hachette Livre in 2007.
Distribution
''Pika Édition'' publications are distributed ...
*
Renault
Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured ...
*
TF1 (
TF1 Tower
The TF1 Tower (french: Tour TF1) is a building in the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris, used as the headquarters of the French TV channel TF1 and several subsidiaries of the TF1 Group since 1992.
Location
The TF1 Tower is located at the cor ...
)
*
Vallourec
Vallourec S.A. is a multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Meudon, France. Vallourec specializes in hot rolled seamless steel tubes, expandable tubular technology, automotive parts, and stainless steel, which it provides to energ ...
*
Yoplait
Yoplait ( , ) is the world's largest franchise brand of yogurt. It is jointly owned by American food conglomerate General Mills and French dairy cooperative Sodiaal.
History
In 1964, 100,000 French farmers agreed to merge six regional dairy coo ...
Prior to 2000
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational company that specializes in digital automation and energy management. It addresses homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries, by combining energy technologies, real-time automatio ...
's head office was in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Main sights
![Jardin du Musée Albert-Kahn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Jardin_du_Mus%C3%A9e_Albert-Kahn.Le_village_japonais_02_by_Line1.JPG)
* The
Musée Albert-Kahn at 14, Rue du Port, Boulogne-Billancourt is a national museum and includes four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions. The museum also includes historic photographs and film.
* The
Musée des Années Trente
The Musée des Années Trente (Museum of the 1930s) is a municipal museum specializing in the fine arts, decorative arts, and industrial arts of the 1930s. It is located in the Espace Landowski at 28, Avenue André-Morizet, Boulogne-Billancourt, a ...
is a museum of artistic and industrial objects from the 1930s.
Education
The public ''collèges'' (middle schools) in the commune include Jacqueline-Auriol, Bartholdi, Paul-Landowski and Jean-Renoir. The public high schools are the
Lycée Jacques-Prévert and the Lycée Polyvalent Étienne-Jules-Marey. Prior to the September 1968 opening of Prévert, the first high school/sixth-form in Boulogne, an annex of
Lycée La Fontaine served the city.
The private school
Groupe Scolaire Maïmonide Rambam covers maternelle through lycée. There is also the private high school Notre-Dame. The latter's performance and ranking in Boulogne-Billancourt are given by its success of baccalaureate rate in different series. According to the ranking of ''L'Express'' in 2015, the national rank of Notre-Dame de Boulogne was 170 out of 2301 and 7 out of 52 at department level. The private schools Dupanloup and Saint-Joseph-du-Parchamp serve maternelle through collège. Private maternelle and élémentaire schools include Saint-Alexandre and Saint-François d’Assise. Jardin de Solférino and La Maison de l'Enfant are private maternelles.
The ''Association Eveil Japon'' (エベイユ学園 ''Ebeiyu Gakuen''), a
supplementary Japanese education programme, is located in Boulogne-Billancourt. A campus of the
École supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers ESSCA School of Management is a French grande école and business school. Historically based in Angers, it now has campuses in Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon, Bordeaux, Cholet, Budapest and Shanghai.
The school offers several programmes, including ...
is also located in the city.
Notable people
Boulogne-Billancourt was the birthplace of:
*
Pape Badiane
Pape Badiane (10 February 1980 – 23 December 2016) was a French professional basketball player who played 23 times for the men's France national basketball team, French national basketball team between 2007 and 2008. He died on 23 December 2016 ...
(1980–2016), basketball player
*
Pierre Bellemare
Pierre Bellemare (21 October 1929 – 26 May 2018) was a French writer, novelist, radio personality, television presenter, TV producer, director, and actor.
Television
* '' La Tête et les Jambes''
* '' La Caméra invisible''
* '' J'ai un Secr ...
(1929–2018), actor and writer
*
Pierre Bleuse
Pierre Bleuse (born 6 November 1977) is a French violinist and conductor.
Biography
Bleuse was born in Boulogne-Billancourt into a family of musicians: his father Marc Bleuse is a composer, his mother Anne Fondeville is an opera singer, his brot ...
(born 1977), music conductor
*
Bertrand Blier
Bertrand Blier (; born 14 March 1939) is a French film director and writer. His 1978 film '' Get Out Your Handkerchiefs'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.
He is the son of famous French actor Bern ...
(born 1939),
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
; son of
Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor.
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time.
Life and career
His rotund features and ...
*
Hubert Le Blon
Hubert Le Blon (21 March 1874 – 2 April 1910) was a French automobilist and pioneer aviator. He drove a steam-powered Gardner-Serpollet motorcar in the early 1900s, and then switched to Hotchkiss for both the world's first Grand Prix at Le Ma ...
(1874–1910), automobilist and pioneer aviator
*
Christophe Boltanski
Christophe Boltanski (born 10 July 1962) is a French journalist, writer and chronicler, laureate of the prix Femina 2015 for his novel ''La Cache''.
Biography
Christophe Boltanski is the son of sociologist Luc Boltanski and the nephew of lingui ...
(born 1962), writer and journalist
*
Booba
Élie Yaffa (; born 9 December 1976), better known under his stage name Booba, is a French rapper. After a brief stint as a break dancer in the early 1990s, Booba partnered with his friend Ali to form Lunatic. The duo released a critically ac ...
(born 1976),
rapper
Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...
*
Daniel Buren (born 1938),
conceptual art
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...
ist
*
Guillaume Canet
Guillaume Canet (; born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper.
Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like '' Joyeux Noël'', '' Love Me I ...
(born 1973), actor, screenwriter and director
*
Leslie Caron
Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (; born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress and dancer. She is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. She is one ...
(born 1931), film actress and dancer
*
Benjamin Castaldi
Benjamin Castaldi (; born 28 March 1970) is a French television host, columnist, radio host and producer. He is the former host of '' Secret Story'' which is a spinoff of '' Loft Story'' that he hosted as well.
Biography Family
Benjamin Castald ...
(born 1970), TV presenter and producer; son of actor
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Jean-Pierre Castaldi (born 1 October 1944) is a French actor. He is the father of French TV presenter
A television presenter (or television host, some become a "television personality") is a person who introduces, hosts television program ...
, former husband of fellow TV presenter
Flavie Flament
Flavie Flament (née Lecanu, born 2 July 1974) is a French television and radio presenter.
Early life
She was born in Valognes, Normandy, the daughter of Jean-Paul Lecanu, a former professional football player (1970–1974) for Stade Ma ...
*
Matthieu Chedid
Matthieu Chedid (born 21 December 1971), better known by his stage name -M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player. Since 2018, he has been the most awarded artist at the Victoires de la Musique Awards with 13 awards, tied with A ...
(born 1971), composer, singer, guitarist; son of fellow singer and composer
Louis Chedid
Louis Chedid (born 1 January 1948, in Ismaïlia) is a French singer-songwriter of Lebanese and Egyptian origin.
Biography
Louis Chedid is the son of the writer Andrée Chedid and the father of Matthieu Chedid (better known as -M-).
As a child ...
and grandson of writer and poet
Andrée Chedid
Andrée Chedid ( ar, أندريه شديد) (20 March 1920 – 6 February 2011), born Andrée Saab Khoury, was an Egyptian- French poet and novelist of Syrian/Lebanese descent. She is the recipient of numerous literar ...
*
Michel Combes
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(born 1962), French businessman; the current CEO of
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel–Lucent S.A. () was a French–American global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being a su ...
*
Guillaume Connesson
Guillaume Connesson (One can hear Connesson pronouncing his name in thiinterview) is a French composer born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Biography
Connesson studied the piano, music theory, music history and choir conducting at the Conserva ...
(born 1970), composer
*
Jean-François Copé
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(born 1964), politician
*
Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson (; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician from the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so. She was the only woman to be prime minister until 2022, whe ...
(born 1934), politician, former
Prime Minister of France
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The prime minister ...
under the presidency of
François Mitterrand
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*
Xavier de Roux (born 1940), politician
*
Michel Deville
Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and int ...
(born 13 April 1931),
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
*
Françoise Deslogères
Françoise Deslogères (born 9 May 1929 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French ondist.
Career
She studied music ( harmony, piano) with Henri Challan, Geneviève Joy and Jeanne Blancard. She began working on the ondes Martenot in 1957 with inven ...
(born 1929),
ondist
*
Laurent Garnier
Laurent Garnier (born 1 February 1966), also known as Choice, is a French electronic music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJing in Manchester during the late 1980s. He became a producer in the early 1990s and recorded several albums.
Early influ ...
(born 1966), electronic music producer and DJ
*
Anna Gavalda
Anna Gavalda (born 23 May 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French teacher and award-winning novelist.
Referred to by '' Voici'' magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class sub ...
(born 1970), novelist
*
Hippolyte Girardot
Hippolyte Girardot (born Frédéric Girardot; 10 October 1955) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the father of actress Ana Girardot.
Selected filmography
* 1973: '' La Femme de Jean'', directed by Yannick Bellon, Rémi
* ...
(born 1955), actor
*
André Glucksmann
André Glucksmann (; 19 June 1937 – 10 November 2015) was a French philosopher, activist and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers.
Glucksmann began his career as a Marxist, but went on to reject communism in the popular bo ...
(1937–2015), political philosopher and writer
*
David Hallyday
David Hallyday (born David Michael Benjamin Smet; 14 August 1966) is a French singer, songwriter and amateur sports car racer.
Early life
Hallyday was born in Boulogne-Billancourt and is the son of the French singers Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie ...
(born David Smet, 1966), composer, pop rock singer; son of singers
Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France.
During a career spanning 57 ...
(born Jean-Philippe Smet) and
Sylvie Vartan
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, brother of actress
Laura Smet
Laura Huguette Smet (; born 15 November 1983) is a French actress. She is the daughter of rock musician Johnny Hallyday and actress Nathalie Baye. In 1986, Johnny Hallyday recorded in her honor the song "Laura", written by Jean-Jacques Goldman.
E ...
, cousin of actor
Michael Vartan
Michael S. Vartan (born November 27, 1968) is a French-American actor, known for his role as Michael Vaughn on the ABC television action drama ''Alias'', his role on the TNT medical drama '' Hawthorne'', and his role on the '' E!'' drama '' The A ...
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Raphaël Hamburger
Raphaël Michel Hamburger (born 2 April 1981) is a French producer and a soundtrack music supervisor.
Career
After studying sound engineering, Hamburger produced albums for several French artists, including the pop-rocke singer Adrienne Pauly, ...
, (born 1981), music supervisor, son of singers
Michel Berger
Michel Berger (born Michel Jean Hamburger; 28 November 1947 – 2 August 1992) was a French singer and songwriter. He was a leading figure of France's pop music scene for two decades as a singer; as a songwriter, he was active for such artists ...
(born Michel Hamburger) and
France Gall
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall, was a French ''yé-yé'' singer. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. Between 1973 and 1992, ...
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Raphaël Haroche
Raphaël Haroche (born 7 November 1975), professionally known under his mononym Raphael, is a French singer–songwriter and actor.
Personal and media life
Raphael was born as Raphaël Haroche on 7 November 1975 in Paris, France, and was rais ...
, (born 1975), singer, songwriter and actor
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Sébastien Akchoté-Bozović, known mononymously as Sebastian (born 1981), electronic music producer and DJ;
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Jacques Huntzinger Jacques Gabriel Huntzinger is a former French ambassador to Israel, Estonia (1991-1994), and Macedonia (1996-1999), and has served as an ambassador at large for the Mediterranean Union and the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust ...
(born 1943), ambassador
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Henri Kagan
Henri Boris Kagan (born 15 December 1930) is currently an emeritus professor at the Université Paris-Sud in France. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of asymmetric catalysis. His discoveries have had far-reaching impacts on the ...
(born 1930), chemist
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Jean Keraudy
Jean Keraudy (1920–2001) was the stage name of Roland Barbat, a French prisoner, later came to fame playing himself in the French film The Hole (1960 film), ''The Hole'' (French: ''Le Trou''). He was one of five inmates involved in a 1947 esc ...
(1920-2001) prison escape artist
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Keny Arkana
Victoire Monnier (born December 20, 1982 in Boulogne-Billancourt), professionally known by her stage name Keny Arkana, is an Argentine- French rapper who is active in the alter-globalization and civil disobedience movements. In 2004 she founded a ...
(born 20 December 1982), Argentinian-French rapper and co-founder of the social movement La Rage du peuple
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Sandrine Kiberlain (born 1968), actress; wife of fellow actor
Vincent Lindon
Vincent Lindon (born 15 July 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker. For his role in the film '' The Measure of a Man'' (2015), Lindon won Best Actor at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor at the 41st César Awards and the IFFI Best Actor A ...
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Louise L. Lambrichs
Louise L. Lambrichs (born 2 May 1952) is a French novelist and essayist.
Lambrichs was born into a family of writers in Boulogne-Billancourt. Her father Georges Lambrichs (along with Jean Paulhan and Jérôme Lindon) was considered one of the gr ...
(born 1952), novelist and screenwriter
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Gérard Lanvin
Gérard Lanvin (; born 21 June 1950) is a César Award-winning French actor. He quit his studies when he was 17 to become an actor. He took on a role in '' Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine'' in 1977 on an offer from the actor Coluche. H ...
(born 1950), actor
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Corinne Lepage
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage (born 11 May 1951) is a French politician. She served as French Minister of the Environment in the Alain Juppé cabinets 1 and II 1995–1997 and as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) 2009–2014 for t ...
(born 1951), politician
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Marc Levy
Marc Levy (born 16 October 1961) is a French novelist.
Career
Levy was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, and studied management and computers at Paris Dauphine University.
In the late 1990s, Levy wrote a story that his sister, th ...
(born 1961), novelist
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Thierry Lhermitte
Thierry Lhermitte (; born 24 November 1952) is a French actor, director, writer and producer, best known for his comedic roles. He was a founder of the comedy troupe '' Le Splendid'' in the 1970s, along with, among others, Christian Clavier, Gé ...
(born 1952), actor, co-writer (usually with the band of the
Splendid), director, producer
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Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut (; born 21 January 1982) is a French professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a five-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having completed the career Grand Slam with victories at the ...
(born 1982), tennis player
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Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano (; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.
In ...
(born 1945), writer, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Nelson Monfort
Nelson Monfort (born March 12, 1953) is a French sports journalist, linguist and television host.
TV and radio career
After his studies at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Monfort began his career as a sports journalist by commenting fi ...
(born 1954), television presenter, translator, sports commentator for French public television
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Thibault de Montaigu
Thibault Tassin de Montaigu (born 21 December 1978 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer and journalist.
Biography
Thibault de Montaigu was born on 21 December 1978 in Boulogne-Billancourt to Françoise Gallimard and Emmanuel Tassin de ...
(born 1978), writer and journalist
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Roger Monteaux
Roger Monteaux (1879–1974) was a French stage and film actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such a ...
(born 1879), actor
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Joachim, 8th Prince Murat
Joachim Louis Napoléon Murat, 8th Prince Murat (born 26 November 1944) is a member of the House of Bonaparte, Bonaparte-Prince Murat, Murat family and the current head of the Murat family. He is an important figure in the Napoleonic circles and ...
(born 1944), aristocrat
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Charles, Prince Napoléon
Charles, Prince Napoléon (''Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon''; born 19 October 1950 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) is a French politician, who is the disputed head of the Imperial House of France and as such, heir to the rights and le ...
(born 1950), aristocrat and descendant of
Jerome Bonaparte
Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is comm ...
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Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier (born Marie-France Thielland; 9 August 1939) is a French actress and screenwriter. She adopted the professional surname Ogier, which was her mother's maiden name. Her first appearance on screen was in ''Voilà l'Ordre'', a short film ...
(born Marie-France Thielland, 1939), actress
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Florence Parly
Florence Parly (born 8 May 1963) is a French politician who served as Minister of the Armed Forces under President Emmanuel Macron from 2017 to 2022. A former member of the Socialist Party (PS), she previously served as Secretary of State for t ...
(born 1963), politician, Minister of the Armed Forces
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Claude Pinoteau
Claude Pinoteau (25 May 1925 – 5 October 2012) was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. (in French) His sister was the actress ...
(born 1925), actor, director, writer and producer
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François Polgár
François Polgár (born 19 October 1946) is a contemporary French choral conductor, organist, composer and musicologist.
Biography Family
Polgár was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of André Polgár, an engineer, CEO and Catherine Ga ...
(born 1946),
choir conductor
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duties ...
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Jérôme Pradon (born 1964), stage actor
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Jean-François Ricard
Jean-François Ricard (born 14 July 1956) is a French magistrate, and since 25 June 2019 the first prosecutor of the National Terrorism Prosecution Office (; PNAT) a '' parquet'' for the prosecution of terrorism in France.
Early life and education ...
(born 1956), prosecutor of the National Terrorism Prosecution Office for the prosecution of
terrorism in France
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Thierry Roland
Thierry José Roland (; 4 August 1937 – 16 June 2012) was a French sports commentator who was France's leading football commentator for 59 years. He began his career as a radio journalist for the ORTF when he was just 16 years old. Roland the ...
(1934–2012), football specialist, sports journalist, television commentator and presenter
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Edmond James de Rothschild
Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (Hebrew: הברון אברהם אדמונד בנימין ג'יימס רוטשילד - ''HaBaron Avraham Edmond Binyamin Ya'akov Rotshield''; 19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French memb ...
(1845–1934), philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs
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Véronique Sanson
Véronique Marie Line Sanson (; born 24 April 1949) is a three-time Victoires de la Musique award-winning French singer-songwriter and record producer with an avid following in her native country.
Ten years after Barbara, Véronique Sanson beca ...
(born 1949), singer
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Alain Sarde
Alain Sarde is a French film producer and actor.
Early life
Alain Sarde was born on 28 March 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
Career
David Lynch's ''Mulholland Drive'', a film Sarde co-produced, received the Online Film Critics Society ...
(born 1952), former actor, now writer and producer
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Catherine Spaak (born 1945), actress
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Agnès Spaak
Agnès Spaak (born 29 April 1944) is a French-Belgian actress and photographer. She appeared in more than twenty films since 1962. Her father is screenwriter Charles Spaak
Charles Spaak (25 May 1903 – 4 March 1975) was a Belgian screenwriter ...
(born 1944), actress
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Georgette Tissier
Georgette Tissier (1910–1959) was a French actress.Desrichard p.179 She was the wife of the actor Jean Tissier.
Selected filmography
* ''Metropolitan'' (1939)
* ''The Black Cavalier'' (1945)
* ''The Eleventh Hour Guest
''The Eleventh Hour Gue ...
(1910–1957), actress
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Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (; 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an acto ...
(1962–2003), actress
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Gaspard Ulliel
Gaspard Thomas Ulliel (; 25 November 198419 January 2022) was a French actor. He was known for having portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in ''Hannibal Rising'' (2007), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic '' Saint Laurent'' (2014 ...
, (1984-2022), actor, model
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Michael Vartan
Michael S. Vartan (born November 27, 1968) is a French-American actor, known for his role as Michael Vaughn on the ABC television action drama ''Alias'', his role on the TNT medical drama '' Hawthorne'', and his role on the '' E!'' drama '' The A ...
(born 1968), French-American actor
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Marin de Viry
Marin de Viry (born 30 January 1962, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer and literary critic. A member of the management committee of the ''Revue des deux Mondes'', he is also a professor at Sciences Po in Paris (born 1962), writer
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Zazie
Isabelle Marie Anne de Truchis de Varennes (born 18 April 1964), better known by her stage name Zazie, is a French singer-songwriter and former fashion model. Her greatest hits include " Je suis un homme", " À ma place" and "Speed". She co-produ ...
(Isabelle de Truchis de Varennes, born 1964), singer-songwriter
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Prince Lorenz of Belgium
Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (born 16 December 1955) is a member of the Belgian royal family as the husband of Princess Astrid of Belgium. He is the head of the House of Austria-Este, a cadet branch of the House of Habsburg- ...
Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Royal of Hungary (born 1955)
International relations
Boulogne-Billancourt is
twinned with:
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Anderlecht, Belgium
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Hammersmith and Fulham (London), England, United Kingdom
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Neukölln (Berlin), Germany
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Marino, Italy
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Pančevo, Serbia
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Ra'anana
Ra'anana ( he, רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is a city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important ...
, Israel
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Irving, United States
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Sousse, Tunisia
See also
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Communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department
The following is a list of the 36 communes of the Hauts-de-Seine department of France.
Since January 2016, all communes of Hauts-de-Seine are part of the intercommunality Métropole du Grand Paris
{{Communes of France
Hauts-de-Seine
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Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel–Lucent S.A. () was a French–American global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being a su ...
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AC Boulogne-Billancourt
Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt or A.C.B.B. is a French sports club based in the suburbs of Paris in the commune of Boulogne-Billancourt. The club offers a variety of sports, but is primarily known for cycling, rugby union, judo, figure s ...
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Boulogne-Billancourt Half Marathon
The Boulogne-Billancourt Half Marathon (french: Semi-marathon de Boulogne-Billancourt) is an annual road running event over the half marathon distance which takes place in November in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
The event was first organised in ...
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Raymond Couvègnes
Raymond Couvègnes (1893–1985) was a French sculptor and medallist.
Biography
Raymond Couvègnes was born in Ermont on 27 February 1893 and died in Paris on 15 December 1985. His father was Emile Couvègnes, a director of the "Compagnie des c ...
References
External links
Site officiel de Boulogne-Billancourt
Page Facebook de Boulogne-Billancourt
Compte Twitter de Boulogne-Billancourt
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Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt
Cities in Île-de-France
Communes of Hauts-de-Seine
Subprefectures in France
Venues of the 1900 Summer Olympics
Olympic shooting venues
Cities in France