Fontenay-sous-Bois

The name Fontenay was recorded in the Middle Ages as Fontanetum, meaning "the springs", from Medieval Latin fontana ("natural spring").

The commune was known alternatively as Fontenay-les-Bois (meaning "Fontenay by the woods"), Fontenay-sur-le-Bois (meaning "Fontenay over the wood"), or Fontenay-sous-Bois (meaning "Fontenay under wood"), but eventually in the early 19th century the latter name of Fontenay-sous-Bois became the only name. The wood referred to in the name of the commune is the Bois de Vincennes.

In 1929, the commune of Fontenay-sous-Bois lost more than a third of its territory when the city of Paris annexed the Bois de Vincennes, a large part of which belonged to Fontenay-sous-Bois.

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Due to the large number of natural springs in the area, fountains were established.

Among the more notable ones:

· The Carreaux fountain: no longer exists, but was located at the corner of rue André-Laurent and avenue de la République.

· The Rosettes fountain was originally located at avenue de la République and rue du Ruisseau but was moved a number of times. It was lost during World War II. Years later, it was found by chance in a market in the South of France; the town of Fontenay-sous-Bois recovered it, and re-installed it in the place where it can be seen today.

· The fountain of the Old Place d'Armes (place du Général-Leclerc) removed around 1862 due to significant leaks which caused unsanitary problems. It was reinstalled in 2002 during the redevelopment of the square.« Les noms de voies en C : Carrefour [archive] », sur archives.fontenay-sous-bois.fr (retrieved February 23, 2020).

Fontenay-sous-Bois is served by Fontenay-sous-Bois station on Paris RER line A.

It is also served by Val de Fontenay station, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line A and RER line E.

The commune has eleven preschools, eleven elementary schools, one junior high school, two CES junior high schools, one senior high school/sixth-form college, and one LEP. Collège Victor Duruy and Lycée Pablo Picasso are the main secondary schools."[http://www.fontenay-sous-bois.fr/enfance-jeunesse/divers/etablissements-scolaires/index.html Etablissements scolaires]." Fontenay-sous-Bois. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.

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|1793 |1700

|1800 |1478

|1806 |1230

|1821 |1262

|1831 |1385

|1836 |1524

|1841 |1646

|1846 |1783

|1851 |1662

|1856 |1760

|1861 |2953

|1866 |3092

|1872 |5378

|1876 |4445

|1881 |4365

|1886 |5839

|1891 |5836

|1896 |7220

|1901 |9320

|1906 |11391

|1911 |15192

|1921 |18129

|1926 |23531

|1931 |30036

|1936 |31546

|1946 |30860

|1954 |36739

|1962 |37484

|1968 |38962

|1975 |46475

|1982 |52627

|1990 |51868

|1999 |50921

|2007 |52143

|2012 |52998

|2017 |52939

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• Claude Le Péron, bass guitarist
• Noe Pamarot, footballer
• Blaise Matuidi, footballer
• Georges Jouve, ceramist
• Gambi, rapper
• Stanislav Tyshchenko, prominent steel construction engineer
• Luis Vassy, civil servant, diplomat, and director of Sciences Po
• Jean-François Voguet, mayor from 2001 to 2016

In 2015 a street in Brovary, Ukraine was named after its sister city Fontenay-sous-Bois.Рішення від 25.12.2015 № 52-04-07 «Про перейменування вулиць та провулків м. Бровари» {{cite web |title=Рішення міської ради від 25.12.2015№52-04-07"Про перейменування вулиць та провулків м. Бровари" | Броварська міська рада |url=http://brovary-rada.gov.ua/r%D1%96shennya-m%D1%96sko%D1%97-radi-v%D1%96d-25122015%E2%84%9652-04-07pro-pereimenuvannya-vulits-ta-provulk%D1%96v-m-brovari |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125200232/http://brovary-rada.gov.ua/r%D1%96shennya-m%D1%96sko%D1%97-radi-v%D1%96d-25122015%E2%84%9652-04-07pro-pereimenuvannya-vulits-ta-provulk%D1%96v-m-brovari |archive-date=2016-01-25 |access-date=2015-12-31}}, [http://docs.brovary.org/p31935/25.12.2015/52-04-07] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127114902/http://docs.brovary.org/p31935/25.12.2015/52-04-07|date=2016-01-27}} {{in lang|uk}}. Brovary City Council. 28.12.2015

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