Drancy

Drancy
Drancy
Commune
	From upper left: City Hall, Castle of Ladoucette, National Memorial of Deportation
	Coat of arms
	Paris and inner ring departments
	Location of Drancy
	Drancy Drancy
	Coordinates: 48°56′N 2°27′E / 48.93°N 2.45°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Le Raincy
Canton	Drancy and Le Blanc-Mesnil
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Aude Lagarde
Area 1	7.76 km2 (3.00 sq mi)
Population (2021)	71,363
• Density	9,200/km2 (24,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	93029 /93700
Elevation	39–54 m (128–177 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Drancy (French pronunciation: [dʁɑ̃si] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in northern France. It is located 10.8 km (6.7 mi) from the center of Paris.

History

Toponymy

The name Drancy comes from Medieval Latin Derenciacum, and before that Terentiacum, meaning "estate of Terentius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

Origins to 20th century

In the 17th century, Drancy was divided into two distinct villages: Drancy le Grand and le Petit Drancy. The quarter "Village Parisien" is built on the old location of the hamlet of Groslay, which was surrounded by the Forest of Bondy: hence the name of rue des Bois de Groslay.

The end of nineteenth century was marked by industrialisation and the development of rail transport. During the Franco-Prussian war, Le Bourget was the site of an important battle and the castle of Ladoucette in Drancy was destroyed.

20th and 21st centuries

During World War II, Drancy was the site of the Drancy internment camp where Jews, Gypsies, and others were held before being shipped to the Nazi concentration camps. In 1976, the Memorial to the Deportation at Drancy was created by sculptor Shlomo Selinger to commemorate the French Jews imprisoned in the camp. In 2009 the memorial was vandalised. The French government vowed to find those responsible for painting swastikas on it.^[3]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	399	—
1800	193	−9.86%
1806	218	+2.05%
1821	207	−0.34%
1831	258	+2.23%
1836	315	+4.07%
1841	308	−0.45%
1846	352	+2.71%
1851	296	−3.41%
1856	310	+0.93%
1861	420	+6.26%
1866	534	+4.92%
1872	456	−2.60%
1876	446	−0.55%
1881	606	+6.32%
1886	934	+9.04%
1891	1,104	+3.40%
1896	1,096	−0.15%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	1,247	+2.62%
1906	1,776	+7.33%
1911	4,190	+18.73%
1921	15,582	+14.04%
1926	31,489	+15.11%
1931	51,156	+10.19%
1936	42,938	−3.44%
1946	42,166	−0.18%
1954	50,654	+2.32%
1962	65,890	+3.34%
1968	68,467	+0.64%
1975	64,430	−0.86%
1982	60,183	−0.97%
1990	60,707	+0.11%
1999	62,263	+0.28%
2007	65,843	+0.70%
2012	67,181	+0.40%
2017	71,318	+1.20%

Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Drancy in 1999
Born in metropolitan France	Born outside metropolitan France
75.0%	25.0%
	Born in overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹	EU-15 immigrants²	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	2.1%	2.2%	6.1%	14.6%
¹ This 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), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. 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. ² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. 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.

Heraldry

arms of Drancy	The arms of Drancy are blazoned : Azure, on a chevron Or a gothic letter 'D' sable at its summit, between two mullets and a sheep passant argent.

Geography and cityscape

Climate

Data climate for Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis) 1971-2000^[6]^[7]

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Déc	Year
Average low °C	0,9	1,3	2,9	5	8,3	11,2	12,9	12,7	10,6	7,7	3,8	1,7	6,6
Average °C	4	4,5	7,3	9,7	13,7	16,5	18,9	18,8	15,5	11,5	7	5	11,9
Average high °C	6	7,6	10,8	14,4	18,2	21,5	24	23,8	20,9	16	10,1	6,8	15
Precipitation mm	54.3	46.1	53.5	46.5	63.3	57.8	53.6	51.6	53.8	55.5	55.8	55.6	647.3
Sunshine hours	55.6	87.5	129.4	172.8	201.4	218.8	239.1	221.1	173.3	125.8	75.2	50.6	1749.5

Architecture

Drancy's buildings are too diverse to be characterised by any particular architectural style. Some of them with a style Art Nouveau are typical of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are housing estates and a garden city.

Park and Castle of Ladoucette

The parc de Ladoucette^[8] is the only park of Drancy. It contains a pond, a small educational farm and the castle of Ladoucette.^[9] The castle was built in 1533 by Pierre Séguier.^[10] In the 19th century, the castle was the property of the senator Charles-Loetitia de Ladoucette. In 1874 his wife, la Baronne de Ladoucette, died and her body was placed in the Mausoleum de la Baronne de Ladoucette. Today she is buried in the Parisian cemetery.

Urbanism

Typology

Drancy is an urban commune, as it is one of the dense or intermediate density communes, as defined by the Insee communal density grid.^[a]^[11]^[12]^[13] It belongs to the urban unit of Paris, an inter-departmental conurbation comprising 411 communes^[14] and 10,785,092 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is a suburban commune.^[15]^[16]

The commune is also part of the functional area of Paris^[b] where it is located in the main population and employment centre of the functional area. This area comprises 1,929 communes.^[17]^[18]

Administration

Part of the commune forms the canton of Drancy. The other part belongs to the canton of Le Blanc-Mesnil.

Transport

Railways and buses

Drancy is in Zone 3 of the Carte orange. The city is served by Le Bourget station and by Drancy station on Paris RER line B. Le Bourget station is situated near Drancy as well as the métro station La Courneuve–8 mai 1945 on the Line 7.^[19] The RER B is one of the five lines in the RER Rapid transit system serving Paris and its suburbs.

Drancy is also served by the Paris Tramway Line 1 with five stops^[20] and by twelve bus lines.

By the RER B, Drancy is near many Parisian railway stations, Gare du Nord is now just 10 minutes away, Gare Saint-Lazare and Gare de Lyon can be reached in 30 minutes. Charles de Gaulle Airport can also be reached in 30 minutes.

Roads

Drancy is served by the A3 motorway and the A86 motorways.

Education

Schools:^[21]

17 public preschools (écoles maternelles)
19 public elementary schools
Six public junior high schools (collèges): Paul Bert, Anatole France, Jorissen, Paul Langevin, Liberte, Pierre Samard
One private junior high school, Collège Saint-Germain
Two public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges: Lycée Eugène Delacroix and Lycée Paul le Rolland

International relations

Drancy is twinned with:

Willenhall

Eisenhüttenstadt

Gorée

Notes

^ According to the zoning of rural and urban municipalities published in November 2020, in application of the new definition of rurality validated on November 14 2020 by the Interministerial Committee for Rural Areas.
^ In October 2020, the concept of functional area replaced that of urban area in order to enable consistent comparisons with other European Union countries

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Davies, Lizzy. "Holocaust memorial in France defaced with swastikas". The Guardian.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Drancy, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Site de météorologie et de climatologie". lameteo.org (in French). Archived from the original on 2011-07-27.
^ "Site de climatologie et de météorologie". infoclimat.fr/accueil/ (in French).
^ Nicolas Grenier, french poet, has written a poem about this parc de Ladoucette
^ "Exhibition of the French artist Gerard Stricher in the Castle of Ladoucette to Drancy (France)". Artsy.
^ "Parc de Ladoucette". TRFIHI Parks.
^ "Typologie urbain / rural". observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
^ "Commune urbaine - définition". Insee website. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
^ "Comprendre la grille de densité". observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
^ "Unité urbaine 2020 de Paris". insee.fr. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
^ "Base des unités urbaines 2020". insee.fr. October 21, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
^ Costemalle, Vianney (October 21, 2020). "Toujours plus d'habitants dans les unités urbaines". website of Insee. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
^ "Liste des communes composant l'aire d'attraction de Paris". Insee website. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
^ Marie-Pierre de Bellefon; Pascal Eusebio; Jocelyn Forest; Olivier Pégaz-Blanc; Raymond Warnod; (Insee) (October 21, 2020). "En France, neuf personnes sur dix vivent dans l'aire d'attraction d'une ville". Insee website. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
^ "Site de la RATP - Drancy-Le Bourget" (in French).
^ "Site de la RATP - Le tramway 1" (in French).
^ "Education Archived 2016-09-28 at the Wayback Machine." Drancy. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.

External links

Official website (in French)

[11] According to the zoning of rural and urban municipalities published in November 2020, in application of the new definition of rurality validated on November 14 2020 by the Interministerial Committee for Rural Areas.

[18] In October 2020, the concept of functional area replaced that of urban area in order to enable consistent comparisons with other European Union countries

[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.

[popleg2021-2] "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[3] Davies, Lizzy. "Holocaust memorial in France defaced with swastikas". The Guardian.

[ehess-4] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Drancy, EHESS (in French).

[pophist-5] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

[6] "Site de météorologie et de climatologie". lameteo.org (in French). Archived from the original on 2011-07-27.

[7] "Site de climatologie et de météorologie". infoclimat.fr/accueil/ (in French).

[8] Nicolas Grenier, french poet, has written a poem about this parc de Ladoucette

[9] "Exhibition of the French artist Gerard Stricher in the Castle of Ladoucette to Drancy (France)". Artsy.

[10] "Parc de Ladoucette". TRFIHI Parks.

[12] "Typologie urbain / rural". observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[13] "Commune urbaine - définition". Insee website. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[14] "Comprendre la grille de densité". observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[15] "Unité urbaine 2020 de Paris". insee.fr. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[16] "Base des unités urbaines 2020". insee.fr. October 21, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[17] Costemalle, Vianney (October 21, 2020). "Toujours plus d'habitants dans les unités urbaines". website of Insee. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[19] "Liste des communes composant l'aire d'attraction de Paris". Insee website. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[20] Marie-Pierre de Bellefon; Pascal Eusebio; Jocelyn Forest; Olivier Pégaz-Blanc; Raymond Warnod; (Insee) (October 21, 2020). "En France, neuf personnes sur dix vivent dans l'aire d'attraction d'une ville". Insee website. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[21] "Site de la RATP - Drancy-Le Bourget" (in French).

[22] "Site de la RATP - Le tramway 1" (in French).

[23] "Education Archived 2016-09-28 at the Wayback Machine." Drancy. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.

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