La Courneuve, Seine-Saint-Denis Département, Île-de-France Region, France

🇫🇷 La Courneuve is a commune in Seine-Saint-Denis, France. It is located 8.3 km (5.2 mi) from the centre 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.

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 line B.