Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis)

Montreuil is a commune with 103 068 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Seine- Saint- Denis, Ile- de -France region. It belongs to Arrondissement Bobigny and is the capital of three cantons. After Villeurbanne Montreuil is the most populous cities in France those who are not a department prefecture or sub-prefecture of an arrondissement.

Geography

The city is located in the east of Paris agglomeration five miles from Notre Dame.

History

The city was home to among the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV. the Murs à pêches. Later, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès had their workshops in the old town of Montreuil.

Today Montreuil is divided into five districts ( district ):

Le bas Montreuil ( the old town ( adjacent to Saint- Mandé ), the flea market ( Marché aux puces, in Paris, Porte de Montreuil, adjacent ) )
Le Quartier de la Mairie ( the pedestrian street, La Croix de Chavaux, the mayor's office, the church ),
La Noue ( Parc des Guilands, Cite de La Noue, Robespierre, at Bagnolet adjacent )
Le Bel Air ( Cité Jean Moulin, Parc des Beaumonts, Cité du Bel Air, Cite des Grands Pêchers )
La Boissiere (north of Montreuil, adjacent to Noisy- le -Sec, Rosny -sous -Bois and Fontenay -sous -Bois ).

Montreuil is a working-class and immigrant community since the late 19th century. The largest group is now next to the migrants from the Maghreb those from sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Mali, which is why the place is nicknamed Bamako -sur -Seine. The building fabric is now 80 percent of apartment buildings and 20% of smaller houses, mostly dating back to previous centuries, about one-third are social housing (HLM - Habitation à loyer modéré ) of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The HLM property to be revived at the time by the construction of some houses with a more human and less systematic architecture. 5 percent of the municipality is sports fields and parks, 5 percent of abandoned factories and workshops, which were now often bohemian bourgeoisie transformed into lofts for massively flowing into the city's new, so the place is a prime example of gentrification. In Montreuil is the headquarters of the largest French trade union CGT and the France and the European headquarters of the anti-globalization NGO Attac. After completion of the new building and the German - French Youth Office will receive its French headquarters here. Moreover, the French Book Fair takes place every year in Montreuil.

Management

From 1984 to 2008, Jean -Pierre Brard, party affiliation after his resignation from the French Communist Party, the mayor of Montreuil. Since 2008, Dominique Voynet, Member of the Greens, the mayor.

The city is divided into three cantons:

The canton of Montreuil -Est has (2006) 35 724 inhabitants;
The canton of Montreuil- Nord (2006) 32 844 inhabitants;
The canton of Montreuil- Ouest (2006) 33,019 inhabitants.

Twinning

Montreuil is twinned with

Cottbus in Germany, since 1959
Circle Yelimane in Mali, since 1985
Bistrita in Romania, since 1993

Sons and daughters of the town

Émile Reynaud (1844-1918), Photographer
Gilbert Trigano (1920-2001), entrepreneur
Michel Vermeulin ( b. 1934 ), cyclist
Niels Arestrup ( born 1949 ), theater and film actor
Jean -Pierre Jouyet ( * 1954), politician
Marie Rivière ( born 1956 ), actress
Éric Zemmour (born 1958 ), political journalist
Pierre Monnet ( born 1963 ), historian
Sandrine Roux (born 1966 ), football player
Thierry Neuvic (born 1970 ), theater and film actor
Élodie Bouchez (born 1973 ), film actress
Olivier Dacourt ( b. 1974 ), football player
Djamel Abdoun ( born 1986 ), football player
Scott Tixier ( born 1986 ), jazz musician

Those who worked on the spot or even act

Johann Friedrich Dübner (1802-1867), German classical scholar, spent his evening in the village

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