Rosny-sous-Bois
Rosny-sous-Bois is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.1 km (6.3 mi) from the center of Paris.
It is the seat of the national centre of road information of the national gendarmerie.
History
The existence of a Merovingian village is attested by excavations led by the Sainte-Geneviève church.
In 1163, a bull of Pope Alexander III mentions Rodoniacum: "the church with the village around" as well as the land belonged to the abbey of Sainte Genevieve. Each year the abbot of Sainte-Genevieve was to give the king six white geese for the fief which the royal domain had at Rosny. According to a manuscript of 1291, the Miracula sanctae Genovefae post mortem tells that in 866, the religious who relate the relics of Saint Genevieve de Marizy (Aisne), where the shrine of the saint had been sheltered in 861 to escape the Normans, Stop at Rosny-sous-Bois.
The quarries of gypsum are exploited from at least 1640 in the sector of the street Rochebrune. This exploitation ceased in the second half of the twentieth century, but left the sequelae that caused several houses to collapse. The former quarry was recently transformed into a municipal park.
In order to satisfy the housing needs of the municipality, in full expansion, a public office of cheap houses is created by decree, at the request of the city, on May 9, 1926. Its first realization is a set of 6 buildings Of 6 floors, the current residence of General-Leclerc, inaugurated in 1933. In July 1964, dozens of Gypsy families settled in the foothills of La Redoute de la Boissière. Little by little, they settled there and the encampment became more important and less precarious, engendering more or less tense relations with the neighborhood.
The city has several social housing complexes. Since 2006, the city has seen many buildings destroyed in the 1960s to rebuild new, new residential buildings in the four corners of the city. In the same year, the new Les Portes de Rosny was under construction.
With 41,254 inhabitants in 2011, Rosny is the 15th most populated commune of Seine-Saint-Denis as well as the 170th most populous commune of France.
