Bondy () is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department (93).

Name

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

History

thumb|Bondy, c. 1780

thumb|The [[Hôtel de Ville, Bondy|Hôtel de Ville]]

During the Middle Ages, Bondy was mostly forest, and the forest of Bondy was a well-known haunt of bandits and robbers and was considered extremely dangerous.

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

The current Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1970.

On October 30, 2007, a gas explosion killed one person and injured 46 people.

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

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.

Education

, the commune had 27 state-funded primary schools, with 6,900 students. There were also three publicly funded lycées, or senior high schools, and five junior high schools.

  • There are 13 écoles maternelles, or preschools, and 14 publicly funded elementary schools
  • The junior high schools are named after: Pierre Brossolette, Henri Sellier, Jean Zay, Jean Renoir, and Pierre Curie
  • There are three state-funded high schools: Lycée Léo-Lagrange, Lycée Marcel-Pagnol, and Lycée Jean-Renoir.

Bondy also has a private Roman Catholic high school, Institut privé de l'Assomption, which has its own elementary school. and INSEE (1968–2023)

| graph-pos = bottom

|1793 |650

|1821 |605

|1846 |782

|1851 |815

|1856 |1189

|1861 |1458

|1866 |1623

|1872 |1677

|1876 |2018

|1881 |2280

|1886 |3004

|1891 |3638

|1896 |4457

|1901 |6353

|1906 |5195

|1911 |7496

|1921 |10104

|1926 |15282

|1931 |19452

|1936 |20539

|1946 |19487

|1954 |22411

|1962 |38039

|1968 |51652

|1975 |48333

|1982 |44301

|1990 |46676

|1999 |46826

|2007 |53159

|2012 |52787

|2017 |53353

|2023 |50595

Immigration

thumb|[[Bondy before detachment of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois in 1905]]

Notable people

  • Sylvie Bouchet Bellecourt, politician
  • Adama Camara, footballer
  • Élodie Fontan, actress
  • Serge Gakpe, footballer
  • Max Hilaire, footballer
  • Muriel Hurtis, track and field, athlete
  • Jonathan Ikone, footballer
  • Steeven Joseph-Monrose, footballer
  • Kevin Lafrance, footballer
  • David Larose, judoka
  • Lartiste, singer
  • André Malraux, novelist, art theorist and minister of cultural affairs
  • Kylian Mbappé, footballer and currently the captain of the France national football team
  • Sylvain Meslien, footballer
  • Randal Kolo Muani, footballer
  • Guy Moussi, footballer
  • Michael Nicoise, footballer
  • Maureen Nisima, fencer
  • Claude-Carloman de Rulhière, poet and historian
  • Wiliam Saliba, footballer
  • Lalya Sidibe, basketball player
  • Alpha Sissoko, footballer
  • Doriane Tahane, basketball player
  • Audrey Tcheumeo, judoka
  • Teddy Tinmar, athlete
  • Karidja Touré, actress
  • Bakaye Traoré, footballer
  • Fodie Traoré, footballer
  • Jimmy Vicaut, athlete
  • Thierry Zig, basketball player
  • Tiakola, rapper

See also

  • Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department

References

  • Town council website