Longjumeau

Longjumeau
Commune
Nativelle Park
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location of Longjumeau
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Coordinates: 48°41′39″N 2°17′45″E / 48.6943°N 2.2958°E / 48.6943; 2.2958
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
Arrondissement	Palaiseau
Canton	Longjumeau
Intercommunality	CA Paris-Saclay
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Sandrine Gelot[1] (LR)
Area ^1	4.84 km^2 (1.87 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[2]	21,996
• Density	4,540/km^2 (11,800/sq mi)
Demonym	Longjumellois
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	91345 /91160
Elevation	40–93 m (131–305 ft)
Website	www.longjumeau.fr
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Longjumeau (French pronunciation: [lɔ̃ʒymo] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Essonne department, France. It is located 18.2 km (11.3 mi) south from the center of Paris. Inhabitants of Longjumeau are known as Longjumellois (French pronunciation: [lɔ̃ʒymɛlwa]) in French.

History

In 1911, Lenin founded the Longjumeau Party School^[3] to provide instruction to selected militants of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party who would travel from Russia to attend. There were 18 students, with three each from Moscow and St Petersburg, with the rest coming from across the Russian Empire. Lenin was the principal lecturer delivering 56 lectures on diverse subjects. Other instructors included: Nikolai Semashko, David Riazanov, Charles Rappoport, Inessa Armand, Zdzisław Leder ^pl, and Anatoli Lunacharsky.^[4]

The Hôtel de Ville

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1997.^[5]

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,030 —     1800 1,377 −5.39% 1806 2,022 +6.61% 1821 1,595 −1.57% 1831 2,038 +2.48% 1836 1,946 −0.92% 1841 1,998 +0.53% 1846 1,849 −1.54% 1851 1,991 +1.49% 1856 1,906 −0.87% 1861 2,256 +3.43% 1866 2,317 +0.54% 1872 2,301 −0.12% 1876 2,314 +0.14% 1881 2,585 +2.24% 1886 2,693 +0.82% 1891 2,551 −1.08% 1896 2,440 −0.89% 1901 2,343 −0.81%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 2,344 +0.01% 1911 2,425 +0.68% 1921 2,538 +0.46% 1926 2,735 +1.51% 1931 3,106 +2.58% 1936 3,014 −0.60% 1946 3,010 −0.01% 1954 3,637 +2.39% 1962 5,522 +5.36% 1968 12,929 +15.23% 1975 18,170 +4.98% 1982 18,370 +0.16% 1990 19,864 +0.98% 1999 19,957 +0.05% 2007 21,166 +0.74% 2012 21,739 +0.54% 2017 21,221 −0.48% 2023 21,996 +0.60%
Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE (1968–2023)[7]

Transport

Longjumeau is served by three stations on Paris RER line C: Longjumeau, Gravigny – Balizy and Chilly Mazarin RER, which are peaceful due to the low transit.

Education

As of 2016^[update] the six communal preschools (écoles maternelles) had 895 students, and the six communal elementary schools had 1,432 students, making a total of 2,377 students. Schools include:^[8]

• Public preschools: Albert Schweitzer, Balizy, Jean Bernose, Maryse Bastié, Charles Perrault, and Albert Gubanski
• Public elementary schools: Albert Schweitzer, Jules Ferry, Hélène Boucher, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Georges Guynemer, and Balizy
• Public junior high schools: Collège Louis Pasteur, Collège André Marois, Collège Pablo Picasso
• Public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges: Lycée Jacques-Prévert and Lycée des Métiers Jean-Perrin
• Private schools: Ecole Maternelle les Saules and Ecole Privée Saint-Anne

Personalities

• Nicolas Charles Seringe, was a French physician and botanist born in Longjumeau.
• Marc Lavoine, is a French singer and actor.
• Loïc Loval, footballer
• Terence Baya, footballer
• Vincent Dufour, is a French former football player who is now a manager.
• Bingourou Kamara, footballer
• Benjamin Mendy, former Manchester City footballer.
• Jérémy Ménez, footballer
• Olivier Ntcham, footballer who currently plays for Swansea City.
• Stéphane Owona, footballer
• Estelle Raffai, athlete
• Ibrahima Tandia (born in Longjumeau in 1993), footballer
• Adrien Planté, is a French rugby union player
• Jamie Ryan, is an Irish bass guitarist in the French metal band Mass Hysteria.
• Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, often referred to by her initials NKM, is a French politician.
• Tanguy Ndombele, footballer who currently plays for Nice.
• Kenny Elissonde (professional cyclist).

Trivia

Longjumeau is the setting for the opera-comique Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam where it is presented as an early 19th-century rural community. The opera was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 13 October 1836. Performances followed in London at the St. James Theatre on 13 March 1837, and in New Orleans at the Théâtre d'Orléans on 19 April 1838.

Longjumeau is twinned with Pontypool in South Wales, UK.

See also

• France portal

• Communes of the Essonne department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 6 June 2023.
2. "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
3. Ulam, Adam Bruno (1965). The Bolsheviks: the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia. Harvard University Press (published 2009). p. 282. ISBN 9780674044531. Retrieved 2015-10-07. In 1911 there was a slight upturn in [Lenin's] political and personal fortunes. The Bolsheviks now organized their own Party school in Longjumeau, near Paris. [...] He and his wife [...] lived in Longjumeau during the spring and summer.
4. "Party School in Longjumeau". TheFreeDictionary.com. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970–1979). Retrieved 28 November 2016.
5. "Mairie à Longjumeau". L'Annuaire des Entreprises. Retrieved 30 August 2026.
6. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Longjumeau, EHESS (in French).
7. Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
8. "Tout savoir sur la rentrée longjumelloise." Longjumeau. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.

External links

• Media related to Longjumeau at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Mayors of Essonne Association (in French)