Bondy

Bondy is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.9 km from the centre of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department.

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

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

On 30 October 2007, a gas explosion killed one person and injured 47 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.

Population growth
The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Bondy proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Bondy ceded the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois in 1905.

Notable people

 * Sylvie Bouchet Bellecourt, politician
 * 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
 * William 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