Drancy

Drancy is a town of France, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, in Seine-Saint-Denis. Its inhabitants name Drancéens. From 1941 to 1944, the city was the site of the camp of internment of Drancy , principal place of deportation of the Juif S towards the death camps Nazi S, for the majority of the convoys towards Auschwitz.

Geography

The town of Drancy is located at ten kilometers in the North-East of the center of Paris, in the south of the flat of France, strongly urbanized today since the beginning of the 20th century in its southernmost half. The septentrional limit of the commune with the Blanc-Mesnil was marked by a small brook now channeled and underground, the Molette.

It is accessible by the RER B, stations of Le Bourget and Drancy, the Ligne 1 of the Parisian tram which skirts it on its south-western limit as by the highway A3 to the east or the highway A86 to the west and in the south which partly cross the city thanks to a covered viaduct.

The commune is bordering on Bobigny, Bondy, the Blanc-Mesnil, Le Bourget and Courneuve.

Districts

The city is divided into nine districts:

Quartier Parisian Future (in the west)
Quartier Small Drancy (in the south)
Quartier Drancy Centers (downtown area)
Quartier the Pond (in south-east, bordering on Bobigny)
Quartier the Economy (in north, around the station)
Quartier Paris Campagne (in the North-West, bordering on the Le Bourget)
Quartier the Dumb woman (with center-is)
Quartier the Birds (in the North-East)
Quartier Parisian Village (in the east)

History

The name of the city comes from Terentiacum , field of Terentius, Gallo-Roman owner. Name which is transformed thereafter into Derentiacum, then Drancy.

With the construction of the school Dulcie September, a pit filled by residues of work of metal as well as a burial in which the skeleton of a woman lengthened on the belly rested attest occupation of the place at the time of the Gaulois, about fourth century BC.

In the same way, a zone of habitat was well updated, but dating from first century BC. at the 5th century. The remainders of a stone cellar were there to testify some.

At the 17th century, Drancy was divided into two villages: Drancy the Large one and Small Drancy. The current district of the “Parisian Village” corresponds to the hamlet of Groslay which was surrounded by the Forêt of Bondy (from where the street name of wood of Groslay). Divided into two by the railway line and the station (the RER B), the city had a strong historical social link with the railwaymen (Institut of social history, IHS). Drancy was a communist bastion of the " a long time besides; girdle rouge" Paris region.

Second world war: to see Camp of Drancy.

Demography

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Administration

Since 2001, the Maire of Drancy is Jean-Christophe Lagarde (Nouveau Center). It is also Député of the 5th district of the Seine-Saint-Denis (Bobigny /Drancy) since 2002 Vice-Président of the National Assembly of February 1st 2006 at June 19th, 2007. June 17th, 2007 he was re-elected Député with 60% of the voices on Drancy Bobigny. He was regional adviser of 1998 with 2002 and general adviser of 2001 with 2003.

Part of the common form the Canton of Drancy (Southern of Drancy) whose general adviser is Stephan Salini (UMP) since 2004. The other part belongs to the Canton of Le Bourget (Northern Drancy) whose General adviser is Vincent Capo-Grooved (Nouveau Center) since 2003.

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Twinnings

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Economy

Transport

the RER B, stations of Le Bourget and Drancy
Line 1 of the Parisian tram
Highway A3 or highway A86.

Monuments

The town of Drancy has some monuments, of center town:

The quoted of the Dumb woman (streets Auguste-Blanqui, Arthur-Fountain and Jean-Jaurès) was built in 1933 by Eugene Beaudouin and Marcel Lods within the framework of the law Loucheur and then was as admired as criticized: made of parallel buildings of four floors and five turns of fourteen stages (the comb), it highest were carried out in France during the Années 1930. The precasted concrete panels are installed on a metal framework. But the utility services envisaged were not produced. The disadvantages of this type of housing being too important (defects of insulation and sound-proofing), the first inhabitants quickly deserted the places.

This pilot city, announcing the futures great units built with haste without equipment, nevertheless was quickly reconverted: the city became sadly famous then because refitted considering its “ideal” configuration in Concentration camp during the Second world war. Nearly 80.000 Jews were interned there before their deportation, max Jacob was interned there and there died on March 5th 1944. The philosopher Jean Wahl, the Rumanian writer of German language Benjamin Fondane and his sister Line, the French writer Tristan Bernard, Louise Jacobson were interned there.

The turns were destroyed in 1950 in order to leave room to a military city, which will leave the places in 1976.

The commemorative Coach-Witness , in the district of the Dumb woman, behind the monument of Shelomo Selinger, is symbolic system in the district of the occupation Nazi.

the park of Ladoucette was of 1976 with 2006 baptized Jacques Duclos in the honor of the communist deputy of the district of 1945 with 1956. It contains on its 5,5 hectares of surface a basin, a sporting course, a teaching farm and the mausoleum of the baroness of Ladoucette, built in 1874 (its body was transferred to the Parisien cemetery). Arranged with the site of the feudal mound of the 11th century, the field was two centuries later surrounded by a wall and equipped with a strengthened entry. At the 14th century, then at the 18th century, the entirely rebuilt castle was decorated of a English Jardin. A long time property of the family of Ladoucette, the baroness will put a term at this family tradition in June 1892 yielding it to the asylum of Drancy which it had founded before. The park was gradually repurchased by the commune between 1969 and 1974, was opened with the public in June 1976 and was inaugurated three months afterwards, in September 1976. The park is the gathering place of Drancéens at the time of the Fête of the Music, the July 14th or at the time of concerts.

The castle of Ladoucette was destroyed at the time of the war of 1870 and was then rebuilt by the baroness. It will be center of convalescence during the First World War for the soldiers wounded with the Face. The new building will be him even victim of destruction during the two world wars.

the church Saint-Jean-the evangelist was built out of bricks on a reinforced concrete framework.

With the accesses of the nautical stage a statue , work of Jean and Christian Moisa, now commune with the inhabitants of Drancy and of Gorée, set up here like over there in memory of the victims of slavery, on May 23rd was inaugurated. It represents two slaves intertwining, of the remainders of coldly broken chains still blocking the fragile wrists of the man, the hands raised towards the sky. This work in the middle of Drancy is today one of the places in memory of the victims of slavery.

the Cité-jardin (street of the Republic, known as Drancy-1) was built between 1920 and 1922 by the Office of HBM of the Seine. Inspired by the theories of the English Ebenezer Howard, it was one of the first examples built in the old department of the the Seine. The Garden city counts 210 residences in the form of houses, generally out of red brick. One second wave of work will take place in 1929 and 1930, including this time of small collectives.

Personalities related to the commune

Michel Jonasz, type-setter and interprets born in Drancy in 1947
Akrem Hamdi, player of Rugby to XV born in Drancy in 1987
Maurice Nilès, French politician, elected seven times mayor of the commune (it fills this mandate of 1959 in January 1997)

Daniel Balavoine remained there, it was in Salengro.

Henri Oulevay, painter and draftsman, born on July 19th, 1834.

To see

Internal bonds

Common of the Seine-Saint-Denis

External bonds

the site of the Town of Drancy
the historical academy of the camp of Drancy

Notes, sources and references

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