Drancy

Coordinates: 48°56′N 2°27′E / 48.93°N 2.45°E / 48.93; 2.45
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Drancy
From upper left: City Hall, Castle of Ladoucette, National Memorial of Deportation
From upper left: City Hall, Castle of Ladoucette, National Memorial of Deportation
Coat of arms of Drancy
Paris and inner ring departments
Paris and inner ring departments
Location of Drancy
Map
Drancy is located in France
Drancy
Drancy
Drancy is located in Île-de-France (region)
Drancy
Drancy
Coordinates: 48°56′N 2°27′E / 48.93°N 2.45°E / 48.93; 2.45
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-Saint-Denis
ArrondissementLe Raincy
CantonDrancy and Le Blanc-Mesnil
IntercommunalityGrand Paris
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Aude Lagarde[1]
Area
1
7.76 km2 (3.00 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
71,363
 • Density9,200/km2 (24,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
93029 /93700
Elevation39–54 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: [dʁɑ̃'si] ) 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[edit]

Toponymy[edit]

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

Origins to 20th century[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Historical population
YearPop.±% 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%
YearPop.±% 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[edit]

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[edit]

arms of Drancy
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[edit]

Climate[edit]

  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[edit]

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[edit]

The parc de 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.

Administration[edit]

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

Transport[edit]

Railway station of Drancy

Railways and buses[edit]

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.[11] 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[12] 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[edit]

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

Education[edit]

Schools:[13]

  • 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[edit]

Drancy is twinned with:

United Kingdom Willenhall
Germany Eisenhüttenstadt
Senegal Gorée

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ Davies, Lizzy. "Holocaust memorial in France defaced with swastikas". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Drancy, EHESS (in French).
  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.
  11. ^ "Site de la RATP - Drancy-Le Bourget" (in French).
  12. ^ "Site de la RATP - Le tramway 1" (in French).
  13. ^ "Education Archived 2016-09-28 at the Wayback Machine." Drancy. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.

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