In the 17th century, Drancy was divided into two distinct villages: Drancy le Grand and le Petit Drancy. The quarter "Village Parisien" is built on the old location of the hamlet of Groslay, which was surrounded by theForest of Bondy: hence the name of rue des Bois de Groslay. TheHôtel de Ville was completed in 1859.[3]
DuringWorld War II, Drancy was the site of theDrancy internment camp whereJews,Gypsies, and others were held before being shipped to theNazi concentration camps. In 1976, the Memorial to the Deportation at Drancy was created by sculptorShlomo Selinger to commemorate the French Jews imprisoned in the camp. In 2009 the memorial was vandalised. The French government vowed to find those responsible for painting swastikas on it.[4]
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1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such aspieds-noirs inNorthwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.
Drancy's buildings are too diverse to be characterised by any particular architectural style. Some of them with a styleArt Nouveau are typical of the 19th and 20th centuries. There arehousing estates and agarden city.
The parc de Ladoucette[9] is the only park of Drancy. It contains a pond, a small educationalfarm and the castle of Ladoucette.[10] The castle was built in 1533 byPierre Séguier.[11] In the 19th century, the castle was the property of the senator Charles-Loetitia de Ladoucette. In 1874 his wife, la Baronne de Ladoucette, died and her body was placed in the Mausoleum de la Baronne de Ladoucette. Today she is buried in the Parisian cemetery.
Drancy is an urban commune, as it is one of the dense or intermediate density communes, as defined by theInsee communal density grid.[a][12][13][14] It belongs to theurban unit ofParis, an inter-departmental conurbation comprising 407 communes[15] and 10,785,092 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is asuburban commune.[16][17]
The commune is also part of thefunctional area of Paris[b] where it is located in the main population and employment centre of the functional area. This area comprises 1,929 communes.[18][19]
^According to the zoning of rural and urban municipalities published in November 2020, in application of the new definition of rurality validated on November 14, 2020 by the Interministerial Committee for Rural Areas.
