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20-529: The Wibault company or Société des Avions Michel Wibault was a French aircraft manufacturing company. Its workshops were located in Billancourt , in the Paris area. The Wibault company was established in 1919 by Michel Wibault . The planes produced by Wibault in the first decade included reconnaissance, fighter and bomber aircraft, but production shifted mainly to civilian aircraft after 1930. Some of

40-515: A supplementary Japanese education programme , is located in Boulogne-Billancourt. A campus of the École supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers is also located in the city. Boulogne-Billancourt was the birthplace of: Boulogne-Billancourt is twinned with: Auteuil, Paris Auteuil was originally a hamlet named Attolium on the outskirts of Paris, built between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries; it became

60-551: A fashionable country retreat for French elites during the reign of Louis XV . Passy was dependent on the parish of Auteuil until 1761. After the French Revolution , Auteuil became a commune of Seine . It was absorbed into Paris along with several other communities in 1860. Auteuil was incorporated into the city of Paris in 1859–60 by the Law of 16 June 1859. At that time, it was planned that Auteuil and Passy would form

80-536: A new arrondissement that would be numbered the 13th arrondissement, but "The rich and powerful moving in did not like the number. They pulled strings and became the 16th, the unlucky association and postmark being transferred to the blameless but less influential folks around Porte d'Italie." Among the landmarks of Auteuil are Notre-Dame d'Auteuil , the Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil and the Pavillon de l'eau . Auteuil

100-509: A small village called Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud (meaning "Menuls near Saint-Cloud "). In the beginning of the 14th century, King Philip IV of France ordered the building in Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud of a church dedicated to the virgin of the sanctuary of Boulogne-sur-Mer , then a famous pilgrimage center in northern France. The church, meant to become a pilgrimage centre closer to Paris than the distant city of Boulogne-sur-Mer,

120-594: Is a wealthy and prestigious commune in the western suburbs of Paris , France , located 8.2 km (5 mi) from the centre of Paris . It is a subprefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department and thus the seat of the larger arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt . It is also part of the Métropole du Grand Paris . Boulogne-Billancourt includes one island in the Seine : Île Seguin . Boulogne-Billancourt

140-603: Is known for its famous stadiums: Auteuil is home to the Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say operating as a collège , lycée and preparatory classes. The borough of Auteuil was the birthplace of Marcel Proust and of Charles Baudelaire . It was also the home of Molière . Thérèse Anaïs Rigo, better known by her pseudonym Anaïs de Bassanville , a journalist, was born in 1802 in Auteuil and died there in 1884. In The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ,

160-559: Is one of the wealthiest regions in the Parisian area and in France. Formerly an important industrial site, it has successfully reconverted into business services and is now home to major communication companies headquartered in the Val de Seine business district . The original name of the commune was Boulogne-sur-Seine (meaning "Boulogne upon Seine "). Before the 14th century, Boulogne was

180-525: The 1900 Summer Olympics took place in Boulogne-Billancourt. In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne , which was hitherto divided between the communes of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine , 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. Since then, Boulogne-Billancourt has been surrounded to

200-766: The Wibault designs were quite successful; the Vickers Wibault was a licensed version of the Wibault 7 built by the British company Vickers in the 1920s. In 1930 Société des Avions Michel Wibault built the Wibault-Penhoët 280, which was funded by the Penhoët (Chantiers St. Nazairre) shipyard and the following year the companies merged to form Chantiers Aéronautiques Wibault-Penhoët . That company produced

220-561: The Wibault-Penhoët 280 series of trimotor airliners , twelve of which were bought by Air France . They also built transport and racing types but in 1934 were taken over by Breguet Aviation who built several Wibault designs including the Breguet 670 twin-engined airliner. Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt ( French pronunciation: [bulɔɲ bijɑ̃kuʁ] ; often colloquially called simply Boulogne , until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine , [bulɔɲ syʁ sɛn] )

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240-570: The area. The automobile industry had a large presence with Renault on Île Seguin , as well as Salmson building both cars and aircraft engines. Finally, the French film industry started here and, from 1922 to 1992 it was the home of the Billancourt Studios , and since becoming a major location for French film production . It was used as the setting of the TV show Code Lyoko . With

260-487: The city of Sèvres , Boulogne-Billancourt is part of the communauté d'agglomération Val de Seine. Boulogne-Billancourt is served by two stations on Paris Métro Line 10 : Boulogne–Jean Jaurès and Boulogne–Pont de Saint-Cloud . It is also served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 9 : Marcel Sembat , Billancourt and Pont de Sèvres . Boulogne-Billancourt is represented by two constituencies and therefore two Members of Parliament . Boulogne-Billancourt hosts

280-400: The communes of Auteuil and Passy 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). Some of the competitive shooting events of

300-468: The first high school/sixth-form in Boulogne, an annex of Lycée La Fontaine served the city. The private school Groupe Scolaire Maïmonide Rambam covers maternelle through lycée. There is also the private high school Notre-Dame. The latter's performance and ranking in Boulogne-Billancourt are given by its success of baccalaureate rate in different series. According to the ranking of L'Express in 2015,

320-624: The global headquarters of several multinational companies, including: Prior to 2000 Schneider Electric 's head office was in Boulogne-Billancourt. The public collèges (middle schools) in the commune include Jacqueline-Auriol, Bartholdi, Paul-Landowski and Jean-Renoir. The public high schools are the Lycée Jacques-Prévert and the Lycée Polyvalent Étienne-Jules-Marey. Prior to the September 1968 opening of Prévert,

340-419: The national rank of Notre-Dame de Boulogne was 170 out of 2301 and 7 out of 52 at department level. The private schools Dupanloup and Saint-Joseph-du-Parchamp serve maternelle through collège. Private maternelle and élémentaire schools include Saint-Alexandre and Saint-François d’Assise. Jardin de Solférino and La Maison de l'Enfant are private maternelles. The Association Eveil Japon (エベイユ学園 Ebeiyu Gakuen ),

360-473: The west, south and east by the Seine and to the north and north-east by the 16th arrondissement of Paris . Boulogne-Billancourt is known for being the birthplace of three major French industries. It was the location, in 1906 for the very first aircraft factory, that of Appareils d'Aviation Les Frères Voisin , which was then followed by those of many other aviation pioneers, and the tradition continues with several aviation related companies still operating in

380-455: 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 . In 1924, Boulogne-sur-Seine was officially renamed Boulogne-Billancourt to reflect the development of the industrial neighbourhood of Billancourt annexed in 1860. As for the name Billancourt, it

400-527: Was recorded for the first time in 1150 as Bullencort , sometimes also spelled Bollencort . It comes from Medieval Latin cortem , accusative of cors , meaning "enclosure", "estate", suffixed to the Germanic patronym Buolo (meaning "friend, brother, kinsman"), thus having the meaning of "estate of Buolo". On 1 January 1860, the City of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighbouring communes. On that occasion,

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