2nd arrondissement of Paris | |
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 The formerParis Bourse | |
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 Location within Paris | |
| Coordinates:48°52′09″N2°20′26″E / 48.86917°N 2.34056°E /48.86917; 2.34056 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Paris |
| Commune | Paris |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Ariel Weil (PS) |
Area | 0.992 km2 (0.383 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 20,433 |
| • Density | 20,598/km2 (53,350/sq mi) |
| INSEE code | 75102 |
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The2nd arrondissement of Paris (IIe arrondissement) is one of the 20arrondissements of the capital city ofFrance. In spoken French, this arrondissement is colloquially referred to asdeuxième (second/the second). It is governed locally together with the1st,3rd and4th arrondissement, with which it forms the 1st sector of Paris.
Also known as Bourse, this arrondissement is located on theright bank of theRiver Seine. The 2nd arrondissement, together with the adjacent8th and9th arrondissements, hosts an important business district, centred on theParis Opéra, which houses the city's most dense concentration of business activities. The arrondissement contains the formerParis Bourse (stock exchange) and several banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as theSentier, and theOpéra-Comique's theatre, theSalle Favart. The 2nd arrondissement is the home of Grand Rex, the largest movie theater in Paris.[2]
The 2nd arrondissement is also the home of most of Paris's surviving 19th-century glazed commercial arcades. At the beginning of the 19th century, most of the streets of Paris were dark, muddy, and lackedsidewalks. A few entrepreneurs copied the success of thePassage des Panoramas and its well-lit, dry, and paved pedestrian passageways. By the middle of the 19th century, there were about two dozen of these commercial malls, but most of them disappeared as the Paris authorities paved the main streets and added sidewalks, as well as gasstreet lighting. The commercial survivors are – in addition to the Passage des Panoramas – theGalerie Vivienne, thePassage Choiseul, theGalerie Colbert, thePassage des Princes, thePassage du Grand Cerf, thePassage du Caire, thePassage Lemoine, thePassage Jouffroy, thePassage Basfour, thePassage du Bourg-L'abbé, and thePassage du Ponceau.
The 2nd arrondissement is Paris's smallest arrondissement, with a land area of just 0.992 km2, or 99.2 hectares (0.383 sq. miles, or 245 acres).
The 2nd arrondissement reached its peak of settlement in the years before 1861, although it has only existed in its current shape since the re-organization of Paris in 1860. As of the last census (in 1999), the population was 19,585, while the number of jobs provided there was 61,672 – this despite a land area of only 0.992 km2, making it the arrondissement with the densest concentration of commercial activity in the capital, with an average of 62,695 jobs per km2.
| Year (of French censuses) | Population | Density (inh. per km2) |
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| 1861(peak of population)¹ | 81,609 | 82,267 |
| 1872 | 73,578 | 74,321 |
| 1954 | 41,780 | 44,300 |
| 1962 | 40,864 | 41,194 |
| 1968 | 35,357 | 35,642 |
| 1975 | 26,328 | 26,540 |
| 1982 | 21,203 | 21,374 |
| 1990 | 20,738 | 20,905 |
| 1999 | 19,585 | 19,743 |
| 2009 | 22,400 | 22,626 |
¹The peak of population actually occurred before 1861, but the
arrondissement was created in 1860, so we do not have figures before 1861.
| Born inmetropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France | |||
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| 71.4% | 28.6% | |||
| Born in overseas France | Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1 | EU-15 immigrants2 | Non-EU-15 immigrants | |
| 0.8% | 3.8% | 6.1% | 17.9% | |
| 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. | ||||
The French newspaperL'Obs has its head office in the arrondissement.[3]Bourbon has its head office in the arrondissement.[4]All Nippon Airways has its Paris Office in the arrondissement.[5]China Airlines also has its France office in the arrondissement.[6]
Aigle Azur'sregistered office is in the arrondissement.[7]
In terms of state-operated schools, the second arrondissement has three nursery schools (écoles maternelles), five primary schools (écoles élémentaires), and one high school (lycée).[8]
The nursery schools areÉcole Maternelle Dussoubs,École Maternelle Saint Denis, andÉcole Maternelle Vivienne.[8] The primary schools areÉcole Élémentaire Beauregard,École Élémentaire Dussoubs,École Élémentaire Etienne Marcel,École Élémentaire Jussienne, andÉcole Élémentaire Louvois.[8]Collège César Franck is the sole state-operated high school in the arrondissement.[9]
École Élémentaire Privée Saint-Sauveur is the sole private primary school institution in the second arrondissement. Private secondary school institutions includeÉcole du 2nd Degré Général Privée Rene Reaumur,École Générale et Technologique Privée Lafayette,École du 2nd degré professionnel privée CTRE PRI ENS SOINS ESTHETIQUES,École du 2nd degré professionnel privée EC INTERNATIONALE DE COIFFURE,École du 2nd degré professionnel privée ECOLE DE BIJOUTERIE-JOAILLERIE, andÉcole technologique privée ITECOM INST TECHN COMMUNIC.[8]
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There are several streets with anEgyptian connection in the area, reflecting interest inNapoleon'sEgypt expedition of 1798–1801: rue duNil, rue duCaire, passage du Caire, rue d'Aboukir, and rue d'Alexandrie.[10]
2nd arrondissement travel guide from Wikivoyage
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