Longjumeau

Longjumeau
Nativelle Park
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Coordinates: 48°41′39″N 2°17′45″E / 48.6943°N 2.2958°ECoordinates: 48°41′39″N 2°17′45″E / 48.6943°N 2.2958°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
Arrondissement	Palaiseau
Canton	Longjumeau
Intercommunality	Europ'Essonne
Government
• Mayor (since 4 April 2014)	Sandrine Gelot-Rateau (UMP)
Area^1	4.84 km^2 (1.87 sq mi)
• Urban	4.84 km^2 (1.87 sq mi)
Population (2011)^2	21,510
• Density	4,400/km^2 (12,000/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Longjumellois
Time zone	CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	91345 / 91160
Elevation	40–93 m (131–305 ft)
Website	www.longjumeau.fr
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Longjumeau (French pronunciation: ​[lɔ̃.ʒy.mo]) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 18.2 km (11.3 mi) from the center of Paris.

Inhabitants of Longjumeau are known as Longjumellois (French pronunciation: ​[lõʒymɛˈlwa]).

Transportation

Longjumeau is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Longjumeau, Gravigny – Balizy and Chilly Mazarin RER, which are peaceful due to the low transit.

Personalities

• Vladimir Lenin lived and worked in Longjumeau in 1911.^[1]
• Loïc Loval, footballer
• Benjamin Mendy, footballer
• Jérémy Ménez, footballer
• Stéphane Owona, footballer
• Ibrahima Tandia (born in Longjumeau in 1993), footballer
• David Reinhardt, jazz guitarist

Trivia

Longjumeau is the setting for the opera-comique Le postillon de Longjumeau by Adolphe Adam where it is presented as an early 19th-century rural community. The opera was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 13 October 1836. Performances followed in London at the St. James Theatre on 13 March 1837, and in New Orleans at the Théâtre d'Orléans on 19 April 1838.

Longjumeau is twinned with Pontypool in South Wales, UK.

See also

• Communes of the Essonne department

References

• INSEE
• Mayors of Essonne Association (French)

1. Ulam, Adam Bruno (1965). The Bolsheviks: the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia. Harvard University Press (published 2009). p. 282. ISBN 9780674044531. Retrieved 2015-10-07. In 1911 there was a slight upturn in [Lenin's] political and personal fortunes. The Bolsheviks now organized their own Party school in Longjumeau, near Paris. [...] He and his wife [...] lived in Longjumeau during the spring and summer.

External links

• Official website (French)
• Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (English)