La Courneuve

La Courneuve is a commune in Seine-Saint-Denis, France. It is located 8.3 km from the center of Paris.

History
Inhabited since pre-Roman times, the area is thought to have been a small village up through the Middle Ages. With its proximity to Paris, it soon became a fashionable country destination, with a number of gentry residing there. It had two notable châteaux - Sainte-Foi and Poitronville. Towards the end of Napoleon's reign, the entire area experienced large population growth. This along with improved methods of farming eventually transformed the area into the major legume producer for the Paris regional.

In 1863, the first major industrial enterprise was introduced and the area soon became a strange mix of factories and farmlands. Industrial estates were juxtaposed with bean plantations and that would continue until after World War II.

During the 1960s, as Paris could no longer meet the demands of a further exploding population (largely the result of immigration from former colonies), La Courneuve, like many other suburbs of Paris, was designated as one of the "zones à urbaniser en priorité" (areas to be urbanized quickly) and was built up at a very rapid pace, with the construction of large council estates and tower blocks and other HLM developments. Between 1962 and 1968 the population nearly doubled.

Typology
Pantin is an urban commune, as it is one of the dense or intermediate density communes, as defined by the Insee communal density grid. It belongs to the urban unit of Paris, an inter-departmental conurbation comprising 411 communes and 10,785,092 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is a suburban commune.

The commune is also part of the functional area of Paris where it is located in the main population and employment centre of the functional area. This area comprises 1,929 communes.

Education
Preschools and primary schools
 * Anatole-France
 * Charlie-Chaplin
 * Irène-Joliot-Curie
 * Louise-Michel
 * Paul-Doumer
 * Paul-Langevin / Henri-Wallon
 * Robespierre / Jules-Vallès
 * Saint-Exupéry
 * Raymond-Poincaré
 * Rosenberg
 * Joséphine-Baker
 * Angela Davis

High schools/junior high schools:
 * Collège Raymond-Poincaré
 * Collège Jean-Vilar
 * Collège Georges-Politzer

Sixth-form colleges/senior high schools:
 * Lycée Jacques-Brel
 * Lycée d'enseignement professionnel Denis-Papin
 * Lycée Arthur-Rimbaud

Transport
La Courneuve is served by La Courneuve – 8 Mai 1945 station on Paris Métro Line 7 and by La Courneuve–Aubervilliers station on Paris RER B.

Notable people

 * Haris Belkebla, Algerian footballer
 * Suzanne Masson, French resistance fighter, (1901-1943)
 * Dinos (rapper), French Rapper