The name Bondy was recorded for the first time around AD 600 as Bonitiacum, meaning "estate of Bonitius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.
History
Bondy, c. 1780
During the Middle Ages, Bondy was mostly forest, and the forest of Bondy was a well-known haunt of bandits and robbers and was considered extremely dangerous.
On 3 January 1905, a third of the territory of Bondy was detached and became the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois.
On 30 October 2007, a gas explosion killed one person and injured 47 people.
Bondy and its integration into Paris is the subject of part of the second-last chapter of Graham Robb's book Parisians.
As of 2016[update] the commune had 27 state-funded primary schools, with 6,900 students. There were also three publicly funded lycées, or senior high schools, and five junior high schools.[3]
There are 13 écoles maternelles, or preschools,[4] and 14 publicly funded elementary schools[5]
The junior high schools are named after: Pierre Brossolette, Henri Sellier, Jean Zay, Jean Renoir, and Pierre Curie[6]
There are three state-funded high schools: Lycée Léo-Lagrange, Lycée Marcel-Pagnol, and Lycée Jean-Renoir.[7]
Bondy also has a private Roman Catholic high school, Institut privé de l'Assomption, which has its own elementary school.[7]
Population growth
The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Bondy proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Bondy ceded the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois in 1905.[8]
