commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.
, in the northern suburbs of
Paris
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A tragedy occurred in the town in the early evening of March 25, 1818, when a cracked 6,000 pound (2721 kg) bell being removed from a belfry came crashing down, killing approximately 25 onlookers. Workers who remained hanging from collapsed steeple were able to be rescued.Annual Register, 1818 p. 52 (Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, pubs., London, 1819)(9 June 1818) Foreign ''The Reflector'' (Milledgeville, Georgia), p. 2 col. 3, near bottom(29 March 1818) France ''
Journal des débats
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Journal de Paris
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'', p.1 (seems to report that death toll was 19 and not 25)
In the 1950s the commune had about 5,000 residents but it urbanized from 1950 to 1974. As of 2007 the commune had 26,000 people. () ""Nous avons grandi à la vitesse d'une ville nouvelle, souligne Jean-Louis Marsac (PS), premier adjoint au maire." and "Pour François Pupponi, maire (PS) de Sarcelles, ..privait la commune de taxe professionnelle.""
In 2007 the mayor at the time,
François Pupponi
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, stated that the city became a "social ghetto" suffered from planning errors made in the 1950s, as the community did not gain the businesses necessary to support the population. Jean-Louis Marsac, the first deputy mayor, stated that the commune grew without gaining the proper infrastructure.
2007 riots
On the night of 25 November 2007, gangs attacked a police station in Villiers-le-Bel, torched cars, and vandalized stores. The violence was prompted by the deaths of two adolescents after a crash between their motorbike and a police patrol car at an intersection. The disturbances spread to neighbouring towns on the night of 26 November. 82 police officers were injured, four of them seriously, by shotgun blasts.
Transport
The
Paris Métro
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, RER, serves through the Villiers-le-Bel - Gonesse - Arnouville station on Paris RER line D. However, this station is located in the neighboring commune of
Arnouville-lès-Gonesse
Arnouville () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.
Previously known as Arnouville-lès-Gonesse, the name was officially renamed to Arnouville on 11 July 2010.
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Education
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, from the town center of Villiers-le-Bel.
Population
47% of the commune's population was under the age of 30.
Economy
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is the primary employer of the area. Within Villiers-le-Bel itself the largest employers were the Charles-Richet Hospital, the Flopak conditioning company, Gilson medical material company, and public services.
Education
The commune has 30 educational institutions, including 11 preschools and 11 elementary schools along with four junior high schools and a vocational high school.Les écoles à Villiers-le-Bel " Villiers-le-Bel. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. the commune does not have its own general high school/sixth-form college.
* Junior high schools include Collège Léon Blum, Collège
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, and Collège Saint Exupéry along with the private Collège privé Saint Didier
* Lycée Mendès France (vocational high school) is in the commune
Two nearby senior high schools are in
Sarcelles
Sarcelles () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the arrondissement of Sarcelles.
In the south of the commune ...
University of Paris 8
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It is one of the th ...
Arnouville-lès-Gonesse
Arnouville () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.
Previously known as Arnouville-lès-Gonesse, the name was officially renamed to Arnouville on 11 July 2010.
Population
Education
Public primary s ...
Écouen
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Gonesse
Gonesse () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
The commune lies immediately north of Le Bourget Airport, and it is six kilometres (four miles) south- ...
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Sarcelles
Sarcelles () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the arrondissement of Sarcelles.
In the south of the commune ...
Marie-Laure Delie
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Mike Maignan
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Maignan came through the youth teams at Paris Saint-Germain, he was an unused substitute sev ...