Bagnolet

Bagnolet
Bagnolet
Commune
	The Mercurial Towers and Bagnolet town hall, in 2004
	Coat of arms
	Paris and inner ring départements
	Location of Bagnolet
	Bagnolet Bagnolet
	Coordinates: 48°52′09″N 2°25′05″E / 48.8692°N 2.4181°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Bobigny
Canton	Bagnolet
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Tony Di Martino
Area 1	2.57 km2 (0.99 sq mi)
Population (2021)	39,366
• Density	15,000/km2 (40,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	93006 /93170
Elevation	57–119 m (187–390 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bagnolet (French pronunciation: [baɲɔlɛ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 5.2 km (3.2 mi) from the center of Paris.

History

On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occasion, a small part of the commune of Bagnolet was annexed to the city of Paris. At the same time, the commune of Charonne was disbanded and divided between the city of Paris, Bagnolet, and Montreuil. Bagnolet received a small part of the territory of Charonne.

On 24 July 1867, a part of the territory of Bagnolet was detached and merged with a part of the territory of Romainville and a part of the territory of Pantin to create the commune of Les Lilas.

The town used to be the home of the Château de Bagnolet.

Population

Its inhabitants are called Bagnoletais.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,043	—
1800	953	−1.28%
1806	987	+0.59%
1821	878	−0.78%
1831	1,093	+2.21%
1836	1,090	−0.05%
1841	1,321	+3.92%
1846	1,327	+0.09%
1851	1,298	−0.44%
1856	1,556	+3.69%
1861	2,553	+10.41%
1866	2,924	+2.75%
1872	2,597	−1.96%
1876	2,861	+2.45%
1881	3,839	+6.06%
1886	5,280	+6.58%
1891	6,124	+3.01%
1896	7,116	+3.05%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	8,799	+4.34%
1906	11,770	+5.99%
1911	15,744	+5.99%
1921	20,406	+2.63%
1926	26,538	+5.40%
1931	28,112	+1.16%
1936	28,052	−0.04%
1946	25,059	−1.12%
1954	26,779	+0.83%
1962	31,591	+2.09%
1968	34,054	+1.26%
1975	35,906	+0.76%
1982	32,557	−1.39%
1990	32,600	+0.02%
1999	32,511	−0.03%
2007	34,269	+0.66%
2012	34,920	+0.38%
2017	35,674	+0.43%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Transport

Bagnolet is served by Gallieni station on Paris Metro line 3 and RATP buslines 76,102,115,122,318 545.

International and National coaches serve Bagnolet at Gallieni Metro station.

Notable people

Jeanne-Marie Barbey (1876-1960), artist and photographer
Sylvain Distin (born 1977), footballer
Koffi Djidji (born 1992), footballer
Henri Verneuil (1920–2002), filmmaker
Cyril Kongo (born 1969), French graffiti artist

Photos

The old Town Hall.

Church Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles.

Support for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

In December 2013, the city's council voted to make Georges Ibrahim Abdallah an "honorary resident." The city council's motion, which did not mention Abdallah's murder of US diplomat Charles R. Ray and his role in the killing of Yacov Barsimantov, an Israeli diplomat, described him as a "communist activist" and a "political prisoner" who "belongs to the resistance movement of Lebanon" and is a "determined defender of the Palestinian just cause." The motion stated that Abdallah's release was being denied "primarily because of the intervention of the US government" and "To call for his liberation, the municipal council declares him an honorary citizen of Bagnolet."^[5]

In July 2014, the administrative court in Montreuil revoked the city's motion to grant Abdallah honorary citizenship.^[6]

Education

The commune has ten public preschools (maternelles), nine public elementary schools, two public junior high schools (collèges), and a comprehensive public senior high school (lycée polyvalent).^[7]