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Boulogne-Billancourt (often colloquially called simply Boulogne or Boulbi) is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. It is located . (5.1 miles) from the centre of Paris
Kilometre Zero

In many countries, Kilometre Zero or similar terms in other languages, is a particular location , from which distances are traditionally measured....
. Boulogne-Billancourt is a sous-préfecture
Sous-préfecture

Subprefectures are the administrative towns of arrondissement in France in France that do not contain the Prefectures in France for its departments of France....
 of the Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine is a Departments of France in France. It is part of the ?le-de-France region, and forms part of the western suburbs of Paris....
 département, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt
Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt

The arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt is an Arrondissements of France of France, located in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, in the ?le-de-France Regions of France....
.

Boulogne-Billancourt is the most populous suburb of Paris and one of the most densely populated
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 municipalities in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. Formerly an important industrial site, it has successfully recovered into business activities and is now home to major communication companies headquarters in the business district
Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Australia, China , Republic of Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used, and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD"....
 of the Val de Seine
Val de Seine

The Val de Seine is one of the more important central business district of the Paris agglomeration. Located southwest of the city, it spreads along a bend of the Seine river, mainly in the municipalities...
.
original name of the commune was Boulogne-sur-Seine (meaning "Boulogne upon Seine
Seine

The Seine is a slow flowing major river and commercial waterway within Regions of France of ?le-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France and famous as a romantic backdrop in photographs of Paris, France....
").

In 1924, Boulogne-sur-Seine was officially renamed Boulogne-Billancourt, to reflect the development of the industrial neighbourhood of Billancourt annexed in 1860 (see history section below).

As for the name Billancourt, it was recorded for the first time in 1150 as Bullencort, sometimes also spelled Bollencort.






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Boulogne-Billancourt (often colloquially called simply Boulogne or Boulbi) is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. It is located . (5.1 miles) from the centre of Paris
Kilometre Zero

In many countries, Kilometre Zero or similar terms in other languages, is a particular location , from which distances are traditionally measured....
. Boulogne-Billancourt is a sous-préfecture
Sous-préfecture

Subprefectures are the administrative towns of arrondissement in France in France that do not contain the Prefectures in France for its departments of France....
 of the Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine is a Departments of France in France. It is part of the ?le-de-France region, and forms part of the western suburbs of Paris....
 département, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt
Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt

The arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt is an Arrondissements of France of France, located in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, in the ?le-de-France Regions of France....
.

Boulogne-Billancourt is the most populous suburb of Paris and one of the most densely populated
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 municipalities in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. Formerly an important industrial site, it has successfully recovered into business activities and is now home to major communication companies headquarters in the business district
Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Australia, China , Republic of Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used, and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD"....
 of the Val de Seine
Val de Seine

The Val de Seine is one of the more important central business district of the Paris agglomeration. Located southwest of the city, it spreads along a bend of the Seine river, mainly in the municipalities...
.

Name

The original name of the commune was Boulogne-sur-Seine (meaning "Boulogne upon Seine
Seine

The Seine is a slow flowing major river and commercial waterway within Regions of France of ?le-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France and famous as a romantic backdrop in photographs of Paris, France....
").

In 1924, Boulogne-sur-Seine was officially renamed Boulogne-Billancourt, to reflect the development of the industrial neighbourhood of Billancourt annexed in 1860 (see history section below).

As for the name Billancourt, it was recorded for the first time in 1150 as Bullencort, sometimes also spelled Bollencort. It comes from Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration....
 cortem, accusative
Accusative case

The accusative case of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of prepositions....
 of cors, meaning "enclosure", "estate", suffixed to the Germanic patronym Buolo (meaning "friend, brother, kinsman"), thus having the meaning of "estate of Buolo".

History

Before the 14th century, Boulogne was a small village called Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud (meaning "Menuls near Saint-Cloud
Saint-Cloud

Saint-Cloud is a commune in France in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.6 kilometres from the Kilometre Zero.Like other communes of the Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine or Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of the wealthiest cities in France ....
"). In the beginning of the 14th century, King Philip IV of France
Philip IV of France

Philip IV , called the Fair , son and successor of Philip III of France, reigned as List of French monarchs from 1285 until his death. He was the husband of Joan I of Navarre, by virtue of which he was List of Navarrese royal consorts and Counts of Champagne from 1284 to 1305....
 ordered the building in Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud of a church dedicated to the virgin of the sanctuary of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer

Boulogne-sur-Mer is a city in northern France. It is a Subprefectures in France of the Departments of France of Pas-de-Calais.The population of the city was 44,859 in the 1999 census, whereas that of the whole metropolitan area was 135,116....
 (northern France), then a famous pilgrimage center. The church, meant to become a pilgrimage centre closer to Paris than the distant city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, was named Notre-Dame de Boulogne la Petite ("Our Lady of Boulogne the Minor"). Gradually, the village of Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud became known as Boulogne-la-Petite, and later as Boulogne-sur-Seine.

On January 1, 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighbouring communes. On that occasion, the communes of Auteuil
Auteuil

Auteuil may refer to:* Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy, an area of Paris* Auteuil, Quebec, a borough of Laval, Quebec, CanadaAuteuil is the name of several commune in France in France:...
 and Passy
Passy

Passy is an exclusive area of Paris, France, located in the XVIe arrondissement, on the Right Bank. It is traditionally home to many of the city's wealthiest residents....
 were disbanded and divided between Boulogne-Billancourt (then called Boulogne-sur-Seine) and the city of Paris. Boulogne-sur-Seine received a small part of the territory of Passy, and about half of the territory of Auteuil (including the area of Billancourt, which belonged to the disbanded commune of Auteuil).

In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne
Bois de Boulogne

The Bois de Boulogne is a park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt....
, which was hitherto divided between the communes of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine

Neuilly-sur-Seine is a commune in France bordering the western limit of the city of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe....
, was annexed in its entirety by the city of Paris. On that occasion, Boulogne-Billancourt, to which most of the Bois de Boulogne belonged, lost about half of its territory

Demographics


Immigration


Demographic Evolution

 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em"| Demographic evolution
1936 1954 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2005
97 379 93 998 109 008 103 578 102 582 101 743 106 367 110 300


Administration

With the city of Sèvres
Sèvres

S?vres is a Communes of France in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.9 km from the Kilometre Zero.The town is known for its porcelain manufacture, the Manufacture nationale de S?vres, making the famous S?vres porcelain, as well as being the location of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures,...
, Boulogne-Billancourt is part of the communauté d'agglomération
Communauté d'agglomération

An agglomeration community is a metropolitan government structure in France, created by the Jean-Pierre Chev?nement Law of 1999. It is the second most integrated form of commune in France#intercommunality after the Urban communities in France....
 Val de Seine.

Transport

Boulogne-Billancourt is served by two stations on Paris Métro Line 10
Paris Metro Line 10

Paris M?tro Line 10 is one of 16 Paris m?tro lines in Paris, France. The line links the Pont de Saint Cloud in Boulogne-Billancourt in the west with the Gare d'Austerlitz....
: Boulogne - Jean Jaurès
Boulogne - Jean Jaurès (Paris Metro)

Boulogne - Jean Jaur?s is a station on the Paris M?tro, serving Paris M?tro Line 10, in Boulogne-Billancourt, on the Boulevard Jean Jaur?s. Jean Jaur?s was a France Socialism leader....
 and Boulogne - Pont de Saint-Cloud
Boulogne - Pont de Saint-Cloud (Paris Metro)

Boulogne - Pont de Saint-Cloud is a metro station of the Paris M?tro, in Boulogne-Billancourt, near the Pont de Saint-Cloud bridge over the Seine to S?vres....


It is also served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 9
Paris Metro Line 9

Paris M?tro Line 9 is one of 16 Paris m?tro lines in Paris, France. The line links Pont de S?vres in Boulogne-Billancourt in the west with Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis in the east....
: Marcel Sembat
Marcel Sembat (Paris Metro)

Marcel Sembat is a metro station of the Paris M?tro. It is named after the journalist Marcel Sembat who was a director of the socialist review the Petite R?publique from 1890 to 1897 and husband of the painter Georgette Agutte from 1897 until their deaths in 1922....
, Billancourt
Billancourt (Paris Metro)

Billancourt is a metro station of the Paris M?tro, located in the commune in France of Boulogne-Billancourt....
, and Pont de Sèvres
Pont de Sèvres (Paris Metro)

Pont de S?vres is a metro station of the Paris M?tro, located near the Pont de S?vres, which is a bridge on the Seine connecting to S?vres....
.

Miscellaneous

  • The headquarters of Renault
    Renault

    Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. Due to its alliance with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., it is currently the world's 4th largest automaker.It owns the Romanian automaker Dacia and the Korean automaker Renault Samsung Motors....
     lies in Boulogne-Billancourt.
  • The gardens Albert Kahn
    Albert Kahn (banker)

    Albert Kahn, born at Marmoutier, Bas-Rhin, France on March 3 1860, died at Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine , France on the night of November 14 1940, was a Bank and French Philanthropy....
     at 14, rue du Port, Boulogne-Billancourt are a national museum and include four hectares of gardens, joining together landscape scenes of various national traditions. The museum also includes historic photographs and film.
  • The Musée des Années Trente
    Musée des Années Trente

    The Mus?e des Ann?es Trente is a municipal museum specializing in artistic and industrial objects of the 1930s. It is located in the Espace Landowski at 28, Avenue Andr?-Morizet, Boulogne-Billancourt, a western suburb of Paris, France, and open daily except Mondays and holidays....
     is a museum of artistic and industrial objects from the 1930s.


Births

Boulogne-Billancourt was the birthplace of:
  • Pierre Bellemare
    Pierre Bellemare

    Pierre Bellemare is a French writer, novelist, radio personality, television presenter, tv producer, director, and actor....
    , actor, writer
  • Bertrand Blier
    Bertrand Blier

    Bertrand Blier is a France screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier....
     (born March 14, 1939), screenwriter
    Screenwriter

    Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
     and film director
    Film director

    A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
    ; son of Bernard Blier
    Bernard Blier

    Bernard Blier was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career....
  • Booba
    Booba

    Elie Yaffa , better known by his stage name Booba is a half Senegalese and half French people rapper from Boulogne-Billancourt, a Communes of France in the western suburbs of Paris....
    , MC
  • Daniel Buren
    Daniel Buren

    Daniel Buren is a France conceptual artist.In 1986 he created a 3,000 m? sculpture in the great courtyard of the Palais Royal, in Paris: "Les Deux Plateaux", more commonly referred to as the "Colonnes de Buren" ....
     (born 1938), conceptual art
    Conceptual art

    Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
    ist
  • Guillaume Canet
    Guillaume Canet

    Guillaume Canet is a French actor and C?sar Award winning film director....
     (born April 10, 1973), actor, screenwriter and director
  • Leslie Caron
    Leslie Caron

    Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood Musical film stars in the 1950s....
     (born 1931), film actress
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
     and dancer
  • Benjamin Castaldi
    Benjamin Castaldi

    Benjamin Castaldi is a French people television personality and current host of Secret Story , the spinoff of Loft Story. He is the son of the actor Jean-Pierre Castaldi....
     (born March 28, 1970), TV presenter and producer; son of actor Jean-Pierre Castaldi, former husband of fellow TV presenter Flavie Flament
  • Mathieu Chedid
    Mathieu Chedid

    Matthieu Chedid is a France rock music singer-songwriter, who is also an accomplished guitar player....
     (born December 21, 1971), composer, singer, guitarist; son of fellow singer and composer Louis Chedid
    Louis Chedid

    Louis Chedid is a France singer-songwriter of Lebanese origin....
     and grandson of writer and poetess Andrée Chedid
    Andrée Chedid

    Andr?e Chedid is a poet and novelist, born in 1920 in Cairo to Lebanon parents. When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding house, where she learned English language and France....
    .
  • Édith Cresson
    Édith Cresson

    ?dith Cresson is a Politics of France. She was the first and so far only woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of France....
     (born 1934), politician, former Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France

    The Prime Minister of France in French Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and French government ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic....
     under François Mitterrand
    François Mitterrand

    Fran?ois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the French Socialist Party ....
    's presidency
  • Xavier de Roux
    Xavier de Roux

    Xavier de Roux is a French politician.He is member of the Union for a Popular Movement party and has been elected on 16 June 2002 as a deputy. He has been before elected several times mayor of Chaniers....
     (born 1940), politician
  • Michel Deville
    Michel Deville

    Michel Deville born April 13, 1931, is a French film director.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors....
     (born April 13, 1931), screenwriter
    Screenwriter

    Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
     and film director
    Film director

    A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
  • Alain Feydeau (born July 21, 1934), actor
  • Anna Gavalda
    Anna Gavalda

    Anna Gavalda is a France teacher and award-winning novelist.Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris....
     (born 1970), best-selling novelist
  • Hippolyte Girardot
    Hippolyte Girardot

    Hippolyte Girardot is a French actor.He is not related to the actress Annie Girardot....
     (born October 10, 1955), actor
  • André Glucksmann
    André Glucksmann

    Andr? Glucksmann is a prominent French philosopher and writer, and leading member of the French new philosophers....
     (born 1937), political philosopher, writer
  • Anne Goscinny (born May 19, 1968), daughter of comics-maker René Goscinny
    René Goscinny

    Ren? Goscinny was a Polish-French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic book Ast?rix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the early issues of the comic book series Lucky Luke with Morris ....
     (Astérix
    Asterix

    The Adventures of Asterix is a List of Asterix volumes of France comic strips written by Ren? Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959....
    ), and writer Gilberte Goscinny
  • David Hallyday
    David Hallyday

    David Hallyday is a French singer/songwriter and European GT-series racer. He is son of the French singer Sylvie Vartan and most famously the son of Johnny Hallyday....
    , (born David Smet on August 14, 1962), composer, pop rock singer; son of singers Johnny Halliday (born Jean-Philippe Smet) and Sylvie Vartan
    Sylvie Vartan

    Sylvie Vartan is a France pop singer.Sylvie Vartan was one of the first rock'n'roll girls in France. She was the most productive and active artist of the y?-y? girls, being considered as the toughest-sounding of her genre....
    , cousin of actress Laura Smet
    Laura Smet

    Laura Smet, daughter of rock musician Johnny Hallyday, born Jean-Philippe Smet, and the actress Nathalie Baye, is a French actress born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, on November 15, 1983....
     and actor Michael Vartan
    Michael Vartan

    Michael S. Vartan is a French people-United States film and television actor....
  • Henri Kagan (born 1930), chemist
  • Sandrine Kiberlain
    Sandrine Kiberlain

    Sandrine Kiberlain is a France actress. She has often worked with the director Laetitia Masson, and has also worked with Beno?t Jacquot.Kiberlain received the Prix Romy Schneider in 1995....
     (born February 25, 1968), actress; wife of fellow French actor Vincent Lindon
    Vincent Lindon

    Vincent Lindon is a French people actor.He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.He was a lover of Caroline, Princess of Hanover from 1990 to 1995....
  • Louise L. Lambrichs
    Louise L. Lambrichs

    Louise L. Lambrichs is a France novelist and essayist.Lambrichs was born into a family of writers in Boulogne-Billancourt. Her father Georges Lambrichs was considered one of the greatest French-speaking editors of the second half of the 20th century....
     (born 1952), novelist and screenwriter
    Screenwriter

    Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
  • Gérard Lanvin
    Gérard Lanvin

    G?rard Lanvin is a C?sar Award-winning French actor. He quit his studies when he was 17 to become an actor. He took on a role in Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine in 1977 on an offer from actor Coluche....
     (born June 21, 1950), actor
  • Corinne Lepage
    Corinne Lepage

    Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage, also known as Corinne Lepage, is a French people politician. She is the founder and President since 1996 of the Citizenship, Action, Participation for the XXIst Century Party She is also the founding member of the CRII-VIE, the Association for the Study of the Impact of Genetic Techniques upon the...
     (born May 11, 1951), actress
  • Marc Levy
    Marc Levy

    Marc Levy is a French novelist. He studied at the prestigious Paris Dauphine University. After six years working at the French Red Cross, while studying, he lived in the United States from 1984 to 1991....
     (born October 16, 1961), international best-sellers writer
  • Thierry Lhermitte
    Thierry Lhermitte

    Thierry Lhermitte is a French actor, known for his comedic roles. He was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, G?rard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc....
     (born November 24, 1952), actor, co-writer (usually with the band of the Splendid), director, producer.
  • Nelson Monfort (born March 12, 1954), TV presenter, translator, sports commentator for French public television.
  • Roger Monteaux (born July 18, 1879), actor
  • Bulle Ogier
    Bulle Ogier

    Bulle Ogier is a France actor.Ogier's first appearance on screen was in Voil? l'Ordre, a short movie directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc....
     (born Marie-France Thielland on August 9, 1939), actress
  • Claude Pinoteau
    Claude Pinoteau

    Claude Pinoteau is a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, ?le-de-France, France....
    , actor, director, writer, producer
  • Jérôme Pradon
    Jérôme Pradon

    J?r?me Pradon was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France on 3 June 1964. He is an actor and singer who has performed in the West End theatre, Paris and various other places around the world....
     (born June 3, 1964), stage actor
  • Thierry Roland (born August 4, 1934), football specialist, sports journalist, TV commentator and presenter.
  • Baron Edmond James de Rothschild
    Edmond James de Rothschild

    Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild was a France member of the Rothschild family. A strong supporter of Zionism, his genorous donations lent significant support to the movement during its early years which helped lead to the establishment of the Israel....
     (1845–1934), philanthropist
    Philanthropist

    A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable organization....
     and activist for Jew
    Jew

    A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
    ish affairs
  • Véronique Sanson
    Véronique Sanson

    V?ronique Sanson is a French people singer-songwriter with an avid following in her native country.She brings a very personal vocal style to the singing of French pop songs....
    , singer
  • Alain Sarde
    Alain Sarde

    Alain Sarde is a French people film producer and film actor who was born on the 28 March 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt. One of his films, Mulholland Drive received the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture....
     (born March 28, 1952), former actor, now writer and producer.
  • Catherine Spaak
    Catherine Spaak

    Catherine Spaak is a French actress and singer.Born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine she is the daughter of screenwriter Charles Spaak and niece of Belgian prime minister Paul-Henri Spaak....
     (born April 3, 1945), actress
  • Agnès Spaak (born April 29, 1944), actress
  • Georgette Tissier (June 26, 1910–March 30, 1957 in Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    ), actress
  • Marie Trintignant
    Marie Trintignant

    Marie Trintignant was a France Actor....
     (1962–2003), actress
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Gaspard Ulliel
    Gaspard Ulliel

    Gaspard Ulliel is a French people film actor. He began appearing in made-for-television films during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and then began to be known as a film actor in France, as well as starring in the title role in the movie thriller Hannibal Rising ....
    , (born November 25, 1984), actor, model
  • Michael Vartan
    Michael Vartan

    Michael S. Vartan is a French people-United States film and television actor....
     (born 1968), French
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    -American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Zazie
    Zazie

    Zazie is a France singer and songwriter. She also co-produces her own albums with other producers.Zazie's father was an architect and her mother, a music teacher....
     (Isabelle de Truchis de Varennes, born 1964), singer-songwriter
  • Adrien W. Jenot (born November 1,1980), France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    -Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     Graphic designer/Typographer


Twin towns

Boulogne-Billancourt is twinned with:
  • Since 1955:
  • Anderlecht
    Anderlecht

    Anderlecht is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. There are several historically and architecturally distinct districts within the Anderlecht municipality....
    , Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  • Neukölln
    Neukölln

    Neuk?lln is the eighth Boroughs of Berlin of Berlin, located in the southeastern part of the city. It features many Gr?nderzeit buildings and has one of the highest percentage of Immigration to Germany in Berlin....
    , a borough of Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
    London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

    The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a London borough in West London and forms part of Inner London.It was formed in 1965 by merging the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  • Zaanstad
    Zaanstad

    Media:Nl-Zaanstad.ogg is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Its main town is Zaandam....
    , Netherlands
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
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  • Marino
    Marino, Italy

    Marino is an Italian city and comune in Lazio , on the Alban Hills, Italy, 21km south east of Rome, with population of 37.684 and a territory of 26.10 km....
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • Pancevo
    Pancevo

    Pancevo is a city and municipality located in Serbia at 44.87? North, 20.66? East, 15 km northeast from Belgrade. In 2002, the city had a total population of 77,087, while Pancevo municipality had 127,162 inhabitants....
    , Serbia
    Serbia

    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
  • Ra'anana
    Ra'anana

    Ra'anana is a List of Israeli cities in the southern Sharon, Israel of the Center District of Israel of Israel. Ra'anana is bordered by Kfar Saba on the east and Herzliya on the west....
    , Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
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  • Irving, Texas
    Irving, Texas

    Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County, Texas. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 191,615; the 2006 estimate was 201,927 according to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, and 196,084 according to the U.S....
    , United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  • Sousse
    Sousse

    Sousse , is a city of Tunisia. Located 140 km south of Tunis, the city has 173, 047 inhabitants . It is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea....
    , Tunisia
    Tunisia

    Tunisia , officially the Tunisian Republic , is a country located in North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and Libya to the southeast....


In popular culture

  • The animated TV show Code Lyoko
    Code Lyoko

    Code Lyoko is a France animated television series featuring both conventional animation and computer-generated imagery. It premiered on September 3, 2003 on the France 3 network, and was produced by MoonScoop Group#Antefilms Production during the first season, MoonScoop Group during the second and third season, and by Taffy Entertainment...
     is reportedly set in Boulogne-Billancourt, according to comparison maps on .


  • The music video
    Music video

    A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
     for the Kylie Minogue
    Kylie Minogue

    Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
    's 2002 song "Come into My World" was filmed there.


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