Bondy is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France (6.8 miles from the city center), in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. The town was known to the Romans as Bonitiacum, meaning "estate of Bonitius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. During the Middle Ages, Bondy was primarily forest, and bandits and robbers were known to haunt the area. On 30 March 1814, Emperor Alexander I of Russia and King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia established their headquarters in Bondy during the War of the Sixth Coalition, and, on 31 March, the two monarchs entered Paris. The chateau in which they had stayed was demolished in 1850. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the Prussian Army set up its artillery at Bondy and established a fortified structure there, taking part in the Siege of Paris. Bondy was historically a left-wing stronghold, although its only Communist mayor served from 1935 to 1939, and the 2020 election and 2022 re-election of a conservative councilor from The Republicans, Stephen Herve, hinted at a shift in Bondy's politics. In 2019, Bondy had a population of 54,587 people.
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