Bouvines

Bouvines
Coat of arms of Bouvines Coat of arms
Bouvines
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Bouvines
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Lille
Canton	Cysoing
Intercommunality	Lille Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Alain Bouvard
Area1	2.71 km2 (1.05 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	713
• Density	260/km2 (680/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59106 / 59830
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.

Bouvines is a commune in the Nord department in northern France, and a village, on the French-Belgian frontier between Lille and Tournay.

It was the site of the Battle of Bouvines, on 27 July 1214. It was fought between the forces of Philip Augustus, king of France, and those of the coalition formed against him, of which the principal members were the emperor and King John of England.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	300	—
1800	327	+9.0%
1806	443	+35.5%
1821	480	+8.4%
1831	521	+8.5%
1836	548	+5.2%
1841	551	+0.5%
1846	563	+2.2%
1851	575	+2.1%
1856	588	+2.3%
1861	579	−1.5%
1866	590	+1.9%
1872	602	+2.0%
1876	601	−0.2%
1881	565	−6.0%
1886	591	+4.6%
1891	577	−2.4%
1896	544	−5.7%
1901	561	+3.1%
1906	589	+5.0%
1911	598	+1.5%
1921	586	−2.0%
1926	623	+6.3%
1931	625	+0.3%
1936	612	−2.1%
1946	679	+10.9%
1954	604	−11.0%
1962	564	−6.6%
1968	560	−0.7%
1975	611	+9.1%
1982	577	−5.6%
1990	683	+18.4%
1999	773	+13.2%
2006	723	−6.5%
2009	713	−1.4%

Heraldry

Arms of Bouvines

The arms of Bouvines are blazoned : Bendy Or and azure. (Baisieux, Bouvines and Cysoing use the same arms.)

Notable residents

• General Achille Pierre Deffontaines was born there.

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file