La Grande Borne is a

housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular throughout the United States ...

, in the

Essonne Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety ...

on the southern outskirts of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

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. The estate is located in both the communes of Grigny and

Viry-Châtillon Viry-Châtillon () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Population Inhabitants of Viry-Châtillon are known as ''Castelvirois'' in French. Sports The town is home to the women's f ...

. The architect Émile Aillaud designed this housing estate.

Notable residents

Amedy Coulibaly Amedy Coulibaly (; 27 February 1982 – 9 January 2015) was a Malian-French man who was the prime suspect in the Montrouge shooting, in which municipal police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe was shot and killed, and was the hostage-taker and gu ...

, Islamist main suspect for the Montrouge shooting, and hostage-taker and gunman in the

Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two TT pistol, Tokarev pistols, entered and attacked a Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in Paris, France. There, Coulibaly murdered four ...

Patrice Quarteron Patrice "The Dark Ronin" Quarteron (; born in Sevran on 20 March 1979) is a French heavyweight kickboxer, fighting out of Évry, Essonne. He is two time French and European Muay Thai champion and current IKF Muay Thai Super Heavyweight World cham ...

, born in 1979,a French super heavyweight kickboxer, has lived in this neighbourhood. He is two time French and European Muay Thai champion and current IKF Muay Thai Super Heavyweight World champion

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* {{coord, 48, 39, 9, N, 2, 22, 32, E, scale:2000_source:frwiki, display=title Neighbourhoods in France Buildings and structures in Essonne