Le Bourget (French pronunciation: [lə buʁʒɛ] (listen)) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.6 km (6+9⁄16 mi) from the center of Paris.

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Le Bourget
Commune
The town hall of Le Bourget
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs
Location of Le Bourget
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Coordinates: 48°56′07″N 2°25′32″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Le Raincy
Canton	La Courneuve
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Baptiste Borsali[1]
Area 1	2.08 km2 (0.80 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	15,905
• Density	7,600/km2 (20,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	93013 /93350
Elevation	38–48 m (125–157 ft)
Website	www.le-bourget.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The commune features Le Bourget Airport, which in turn hosts the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace (Air and Space Museum).[3] A very small part of Le Bourget Airport lies on the territory of the commune of Le Bourget, which nonetheless gave its name to the airport. Most of the airport lies on the territory of the communes of Dugny, Bonneuil-en-France, and Gonesse.^{[citation needed]} The Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile is also headquartered on the airport grounds and in Le Bourget proper.[4]

Transport

Rail

Le Bourget is served by Le Bourget station on Paris RER line B. There is also an extensive freight rail yard with international traffic to Belgium, among others. Progressively, Le Bourget is planned to one of the principal transportation hub in the Paris North suburb : The Tangentielle Nord is an express tramway planned to enter in service in 2014,[5] and two train stations are planned in the long term as part of the Grand Paris Express project with the future lines 16 and 17.

Highways

The town is served by two major Highways (Autoroutes), A1 autoroute in the north of the town, and A86 autoroute in the south of the city. Those two highways ensure a direct connection to major Paris Region hubs like La Defense (A86 West), Bobigny (A86 East), Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport (A1 North), Paris (A1 South).

Air

Paris–Le Bourget Airport is the first business flights airport in Europe. It connects with 800 destinations in Europe.[6]

On May 8, 1927, the White Bird took off from Le Bourget and its pilots, Charles Nungesser and François Coli, hoped to reach New York City without stopovers. Unfortunately the plane disappeared without a trace. It was finally Charles Lindbergh who made the first air crossing of the North Atlantic between New York and Paris on May 21, 1927. He was welcomed as the "victor" of the North Atlantic, posing on his Spirit of St. Louis. An enormous crowd also welcomed Edouard Daladier on September 29, 1938, after the signing of the Munich Agreement signed between Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy represented respectively by Adolf Hitler, Edouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain and Benito Mussolini (who had acted as intermediary).

Population

Culture

The world-renowned Gagosian Gallery is located in Le Bourget airport area.

Government and infrastructure

Le Bourget houses the Crèche intercommunale Maryse Bastié, an intercommunal daycare.[8]

Education

École maternelle Saint-Exupéry is the sole maternelle public nursery school in Le Bourget, while École primaire Louis Blériot is the sole élémentaire- only public school in Le Bourget. Two municipal schools, Groupe scolaire Jean Jaurès and Groupe scolaire Jean Mermoz, serve both the maternelle and élémentaire levels. Collège Didier Daurat is the sole municipal collège (junior high school). There is one public high school, Lycée Germaine Tillion (Lycée du Bourget). Institution Privée Sainte-Marie, serving the maternelle, élémentaire and collège levels, is the sole private school in Le Bourget.[9]

The 350-square-metre (3,800 sq ft) Le Bourget Public Library has 45,000 books and almost 100 magazines. It is located within the Urban Community of Le Bourget Airport (Communauté d'Agglomération de l'Aéroport du Bourget).[10]

Notable inhabitants

• Germinal Pierre Dandelin (12 April 1794 – 15 February 1847) was a mathematician, soldier, and professor of engineering.
• Vizeadmiral Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (March 18, 1886 – February 24, 1941), born in Posen (now Poznań, Poland) and of French-German descent, was a German U-boat commander during World War I.
• Bernard Tapie (1943), lived at the Bourget in the years 1950/1960 where he attended the Edgard-Quinet school (now Didier-Daurat college). He lived with his parents and his younger brother Jean-Claude, at 11 Avenue Baudoin, in a very modest building that still exists.
• Vincent Capo-Canellas (born 1967) is a French politician. He serves as a Senator for Seine-Saint-Denis.
• Franck Silvestre (1967), former French footballer, was trained at the Bourget football school from 1975 to 1983.

International relations

Le Bourget has been twinned with Amityville, New York, since 1979[11] and Zhukovsky in Russia.

Gallery

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  Le Bourget Airport
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  Le Bourget Library
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  Building 153, the head office of the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA) at Le Bourget Airport

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis).

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Le Bourget.

• Commune of Le Bourget (in French)

На других языках

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[fr] Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis)

[ru] Ле-Бурже (Сен-Сен-Дени)