Pessac

Pessac (Occitan: Peçac) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is a member of the metropolis of Bordeaux, being the second-largest suburb of Bordeaux and located just southwest of it. Pessac is also home to the Montesquieu University, the Bordeaux Montaigne University, and the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux.

Pessac
Commune
Chateau Haut-Brion
Flag
Coat of arms
Location of Pessac
Pessac
Pessac
Coordinates: 44°48′24″N 0°37′52″W
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentGironde
ArrondissementBordeaux
CantonPessac-1 and 2
IntercommunalityBordeaux
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) Franck Raynal
Area
1
38.82 km2 (14.99 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
63,808
 • Density1,600/km2 (4,300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
33318 /33600
Elevation12–56 m (39–184 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Pessac is located in the south of the Bordeaux metro area and is surrounded by Bordeaux, Talence, Gradignan, Canéjan, Cestas, Saint-Jean-d'Illac and Mérignac.

The western part of the commune is part of the Landes de Bordeaux.



Mérignac,
St-Jean-d'Illac

Mérignac

Mérignac, Bordeaux

St-Jean-d'Illac

Talence

St-Jean-d'Illac, Cestas
Canéjan
Gradignan

History

Early in World War II (June 22 1940), the town was the scene of a quadruple execution on the firing range of Verthamon. Four communists militants, one of whom, Roger Rambaud, was not yet 17, were among the escapees from the military prison in Paris, were killed in the utmost secrecy by soldiers of the Third Republic. This case, classified "Secret Defense" for 70 years, has recently been revealed by the historian Jacky Tronel in the history magazine Arkheia.[2]

Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods of Pessac :[3]

  • Verthamon
  • Les échoppes
  • Brivazac - Candau
  • Noës
  • Pessac-bourg
  • Casino
  • Sardine
  • Chiquet
  • Compostelle - La Paillère
  • Le Monteil
  • CCLAPS - La Chataigneraie
  • Saige - Formanoir
  • 3 M (Macédo, Mirante, Monbalon)
  • France - L'Alouette
  • Cap de Bos
  • Magonty - Romainville
  • Toctoucau

Heritage

Wineries

Located on the Pessac-Léognan appellation, there are several wineries, including the oldest of the Bordeaux wine regions, château Haut-Brion.

Cité Frugès
Main article: Cité Frugès de Pessac

Built by Le Corbusier in 1926, the district is an experimental housing for workers. This is one of the 17 architectural works of Le Corbusier listed as UNESCO heritage since 2016.[4]

Casino district

Quarter built in the 1900s with a resort city architecture.

  • Villa Girofla
  • Villa Mimosa
  • Villa Tour
  • Villa Booz
  • Villa Radieuse

Others
  • Town hall
  • Church of Saint Martin
  • Music school
  • Moulin de Noès
  • Castel du bourg, private house

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
17931,430—    
18001,336−6.6%
18061,414+5.8%
18211,349−4.6%
18311,502+11.3%
18361,341−10.7%
18411,708+27.4%
18461,785+4.5%
18512,094+17.3%
YearPop.±%
18562,334+11.5%
18612,537+8.7%
18662,676+5.5%
18724,743+77.2%
18763,103−34.6%
18813,227+4.0%
18863,759+16.5%
18913,944+4.9%
18964,411+11.8%
YearPop.±%
19014,239−3.9%
19064,612+8.8%
19115,234+13.5%
19216,691+27.8%
19268,268+23.6%
193110,706+29.5%
193613,004+21.5%
194617,769+36.6%
195419,226+8.2%
YearPop.±%
196224,281+26.3%
196836,986+52.3%
197551,360+38.9%
198250,267−2.1%
199051,055+1.6%
199956,143+10.0%
200857,632+2.7%
201661,859+7.3%

Education

9 Kindergartens

15 Grade schools

5 Middle schools

3 High schools

  • Lycée Pape-Clément:[9] financed by the French government and the Communauté urbaine de Bordeaux (CUB), this school, presented as the high school of the year 2000, was inaugurated on 9 July 1987 by Jacques Chirac, then Prime Minister. Its initial capacity was 1,100 students including 900 "demi-pensionnaires". It was expanded in 1990 and now holds 1,260 students.
  • Lycée Sans Frontière
  • Lycée professionnel Philadelphe de Gerde[10]

Transportation

Pessac has a railway station on the westbound line from Bordeaux, Gare de Pessac. Pessac is also served by the urban transport network of the Bordeaux agglomeration, Transports Bordeaux Métropole (TBM).

Pessac is located on line B of the Tramway de Bordeaux.

Personalities
  • 1929: Yvette Roudy, socialist minister
  • 1938: Jean Eustache, film actor and director (d. 1981)
  • 1953: Patrice Brun (historian)
  • 1971: Thierry Poulain-Rehm, university
  • 1979: Myriam Borg-Korfanty, handball player
  • 1980: (18 August) Julien Lescarret, matador

Twin towns - sister cities

Pessac is twinned with:[11]

gollark: I think they're authcenter-ish?
gollark: I mean, mapping anything as complex as politics onto one dimension is very no.
gollark: Left/right is an oversimplification in many cases.
gollark: I have never *watched* "anime", and I do not plan to.
gollark: Don't know, don't care much.

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. J. Tronel, Pessac : ces quatre fusillés dont on ne parle pas (Pessac: four shot which we do not speak) review Arkheia, n°22, (Montauban, France), 2010.
  3. federation-quartiers-pessac.com Archived 2008-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. https://whc.unesco.org/fr/list/1321/
  5. (site web) Archived 2007-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
  6. (site web) Archived 2005-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
  7. (site web) Archived 2005-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. (site web : http://www.h-hoster.com/jeanne/index.php)
  9. (site web) Archived 2007-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
  10. (site web) Archived 2007-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
  11. "Villes Jumelles". jumelage-pessac.org (in French). Comité jumelage Pessac. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
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