Le Blanc-Mesnil

The canton of Le Blanc-Mesnil is an administrative division of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Le Blanc-Mesnil.It consists of the following communes: Le Blanc-Mesnil Drancy (partly)

Drancy station (French: Gare de Drancy) is an RER station in Drancy, a northern suburb of Paris, in Seine-Saint-Denis department, France. The station is in Zone 3 of the Carte orange. It is situated on the RER B suburban railway line.

Drancy (French pronunciation: [dʁɑ̃'si] ) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in northern France. It is located 10.8 km (6.7 mi) from the center of Paris.

Le Blanc-Mesnil station is a station on the line B of the Réseau Express Régional, a hybrid suburban commuter and rapid transit line. It is named after the village of Blanc-Mesnil where the station is located.

Drancy internment camp (French: Camp d'internement de Drancy) was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II. Originally conceived and built as a modernist urban community under the name La Cité de la Muette, it was located in Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, France. Between 22 June 1942 and 31 July 1944, during its use as an internment camp, 67,400 French, Polish, and German Jews were deported from the camp in 64 rail operations, which included 6,000 children. Only 1,542 prisoners remained alive at the camp when the German authorities in Drancy fled as Allied forces advanced and the Swedish Consul-General Raoul Nordling took control of the camp on 17 August 1944, before handing it over to the French Red Cross to care for the survivors.Drancy was under the control of the French police until 1943 when administration was taken over by the SS, which placed officer Alois Brunner in charge of the camp. In 2001, Brunner's case was brought before a French court by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, which sentenced Brunner in absentia to a life sentence for crimes against humanity.

The Decauville factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois (previously known as Société Lilloise, or colloquially La Lilloise) produced prefabricated narrow gauge railway track and rolling stock from 1914 to the 1950ies in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.

The Decauville factory in Petite-Synthe produced prefabricated narrow gauge railway track and rolling stock from 1903 to 1922 in Petite-Synthe near Dunkirk, France.

The canton of Drancy is an administrative division of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Drancy.It consists of the following communes: Drancy (partly)

The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Drancy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France in the northeastern suburbs of Paris standing on Place de l'Hotel de Ville.

The Musée de l'air et de l'espace (English: Air and Space Museum), is a French aerospace museum, located at the south-eastern edge of Paris–Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, and in the commune of Le Bourget. It was inaugurated in 1919 after a proposal by the celebrated aeronautics engineer Albert Caquot (1881–1976).

The canton of Aulnay-sous-Bois is an administrative division of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Aulnay-sous-Bois.It consists of the following communes: Aulnay-sous-Bois

Aulnay-sous-Bois (French pronunciation: [o(l)nɛ su bwɑ] ) is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 13.9 km (8.6 mi) from the Kilometre zero. The commune has been awarded four flowers by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.