La Madeleine, Nord

La Madeleine
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of La Madeleine
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Coordinates: 50°39′21″N 3°04′16″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Lille
Canton	Lille-1
Intercommunality	Métropole Européenne de Lille
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Sébastien Leprêtre[1]
Area ^1	2.84 km^2 (1.10 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	22,488
• Density	7,900/km^2 (21,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59368 /59110
Elevation	16–38 m (52–125 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Madeleine (French pronunciation: [la madlɛn]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.^[3]

It is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its north side.

Heraldry

Arms of La Madeleine

The arms of La Madeleine are blazoned : Sable, an eagle argent, beaked and membered Or. (La Madeleine and Pont-à-Marcq use the same arms.)

History

In 1944, Pierre Marchant and Lucien Olivier, two members of the French resistance from La Madeleine, were killed near Hill 60 (Ypres) by Germans.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 541 —     1800 611 +1.75% 1806 569 −1.18% 1821 657 +0.96% 1831 788 +1.83% 1836 925 +3.26% 1841 1,126 +4.01% 1846 1,528 +6.30% 1851 1,974 +5.26% 1856 2,443 +4.36% 1861 4,015 +10.45% 1866 5,410 +6.15% 1872 6,348 +2.70% 1876 7,461 +4.12% 1881 8,504 +2.65% 1886 9,060 +1.27% 1891 9,689 +1.35% 1896 10,779 +2.16%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 12,359 +2.77% 1906 13,522 +1.81% 1911 15,699 +3.03% 1921 17,902 +1.32% 1926 20,428 +2.68% 1931 21,507 +1.03% 1936 21,501 −0.01% 1946 21,688 +0.09% 1954 22,831 +0.64% 1962 23,381 +0.30% 1968 23,203 −0.13% 1975 20,999 −1.42% 1982 22,115 +0.74% 1990 21,601 −0.29% 1999 22,399 +0.40% 2007 22,428 +0.02% 2012 22,520 +0.08% 2017 21,173 −1.23%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

Education

Schools in the commune:

• Public preschools (écoles maternelles): Anne Frank, Courbet, d'Hallendre, du Moulin - Alphonse Daudet, and Gaston Leclercq^[6]
• Public elementary schools: Victor Hugo, Louise de Bettignies, Kléber, and Edmond Rostand^[6]
• Private preschools and elementary schools: Institution Jeanne d’Arc and Ecole Sainte-Geneviève^[6]
• One public junior high school, Collège Flandre^[7]
• One private junior high school, Collège privé Saint-Jean^[7]
• One public senior high school, Lycée Valentine Labbé^[7]

The École Japonaise du Nord-Pas-de-Calais (ノール＝パ・ド・カレー日本人学校 Nōsu Pa do Karē Nihonjin Gakkō), a part-time Japanese supplementary school, is held in La Madeleine.^[8]

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. INSEE commune file
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet La Madeleine, EHESS (in French).
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
6. "Maternelles et élémentaires ." La Madeleine, Nord. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
7. "Etablissements secondaires ." La Madeleine, Nord. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
8. "欧州の補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）" (Archive). Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Retrieved on May 10, 2014. "Ecole Japonaise du Nord-Pas de Calais 116,45 Rue du Maréchal Foch, 59110 La Madeleine FRANCE"

External links

• Official website (in French)