Bondy

For other uses, see Bondi (disambiguation).

Bondy
The commercial zone of Bondy on the N3 road
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring départements
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Bobigny
Canton	Bondy
Area1	5.47 km2 (2.11 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	53,503
• Density	9,800/km2 (25,000/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	93010 / 93140
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bondy (French pronunciation: ​[bɔ̃.di]) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.9 km (6.8 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Name

The name Bondy was recorded for the first time around AD 600 as Bonitiacum, meaning "estate of Bonitius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

History

During the Middle Ages Bondy was primarily forest. The forest of Bondy was a well-known haunt of bandits and robbers and was extremely dangerous.

On 3 January 1905, a third of the territory of Bondy was detached and became the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois.

On 30 October 2007, a gas explosion killed one person and injured 47 people.

Bondy and its integration into Paris is the subject of part of the second-last chapter of Graham Robb's book Parisians.

Personalities

• Frederic Bakekolo, handball player
• Élodie Fontan, actress
• Serge Gakpe, footballer
• Max Hilaire, footballer
• Muriel Hurtis, track and field, athlete
• Steeven Joseph-Monrose, footballer
• Kevin Lafrance, footballer
• David Larose, judoka
• André Malraux, spent much of his childhood in Bondy
• Sylvain Meslien, footballer
• Guy Moussi, footballer
• Michael Nicoise, footballer
• Maureen Nisima, fencer
• Birthplace of Claude-Carloman de Rulhière (1735–1791), poet and historian.
• Lalya Sidibe, basketball player
• Doriane Tahane, basketball player
• Audrey Tcheumeo, judoka
• Teddy Tinmar, athlete
• Bakaye Traoré, footballer
• Fodie Traore, footballer
• Jimmy Vicaut, athlete
• Thierry Zig, basketball player
• Elisa Doughty, singer, actress, model
• David Bondy, cartographer

Demographics

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Bondy in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France 72.2% 27.8% Born in Overseas France Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants 3.6% 2.7% 3.4% 18.1% ¹This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. ²An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Administration

Bondy is part of the canton of Bondy, created in 2015.

Transport

Bondy is served by Bondy station on Paris RER line E and the Line 4 (T4) of the Tramways in Île-de-France.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Town council website (in French)