Le Pré Saint-Gervais
Commune
Rue André Joineau, in Pré Saint-Gervais
Rue André Joineau, in Pré Saint-Gervais
Coat of arms of Le Pré Saint-Gervais
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring departments
Paris and inner ring departments
Location of Le Pré Saint-Gervais
Le Pré Saint-Gervais is located in France
Le Pré Saint-Gervais
Le Pré Saint-Gervais
Le Pré Saint-Gervais is located in Île-de-France (region)
Le Pré Saint-Gervais
Le Pré Saint-Gervais
Coordinates: 48°53′00″N 2°24′00″E / 48.8833°N 2.4000°E / 48.8833; 2.4000
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-Saint-Denis
ArrondissementBobigny
CantonPantin
IntercommunalityGrand Paris
Government
 • Mayor (2021–2026) Laurent Baron[1]
Area
1
0.70 km2 (0.27 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2021)[2]
16,865
 • Density24,000/km2 (62,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
93061 /93310
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Pré-Saint-Gervais (French pronunciation: [lə pʁe sɛ̃ ʒɛʁvɛ] ⓘ; simply known by locals as Le Pré, i.e. "the meadow") is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 5.2 km (3.2 mi) from the center of Paris. With a density of 25,643 inhabitants per square kilometres as of 2017,[3] Le Pré-Saint-Gervais is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe.

History

Town hall of Pré-Saint-Gervais

In 1767, Johann Schobert, a German composer at the Palace of Versailles went mushroom picking with his family in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, and died after insisting on eating them in a soup after two chefs told him that they were poisonous.[4]

On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occasion, a large part of the commune of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais was annexed to Paris, and forms now the neighborhood of Pré-Saint-Gervais, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, leaving Le Pré-Saint-Gervais as a rump commune.

Heraldry

Arms of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais
Arms of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais
 The arms of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais are blazoned :
Vert, 5 barrulets wavy in base and a ram's head argent, horned Or.



Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 14,772—    
1975 13,271−1.52%
1982 13,078−0.21%
1990 15,373+2.04%
1999 16,377+0.71%
2007 17,244+0.65%
2012 18,025+0.89%
2017 17,950−0.08%
Source: INSEE[3]

Transport

No station of the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network is in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais. The closest Métro stations are Hoche on Line Paris Métro Line 5 to the north, and Pré-Saint-Gervais on Line Paris Métro Line 7bis to the southwest, each a few hundred metres outside the commune.

Education

Schools in the commune:[5]

  • Public preschools (maternelles): École Baudin, École Rosa-Parks, École Suzanne-Lacore, École Nelson-Mandela
  • Public elementaries: École Anatole-France, École Jean-Jaurès, École Pierre-Brossolette
  • Public junior high school: Collège Jean-Jacques-Rousseau
  • Private preschool through junior high school: École et collège Saint-Joseph
  • Private preschool: École maternelle Montessori

Personalities

Le Pré-Saint-Gervais is the birthplace of Louis Wagner, winner of the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup and the 1908 American Grand Prize.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  4. ↑ Schaechter, Moselio (1998). In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist's Tale. Harvard University Press. pp. 15, 18. ISBN 9780674445550.
  5. ↑ "Les adresses des écoles." Le Pré-Saint-Gervais. Retrieved on September 9, 2016.
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