Bourg-la-Reine is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France, located 5.7 miles from the center of Paris in the city's southern suburbs. The town's name means "town of the Queen", and it was renamed to Bourg-l'Égalité ("town of equality") in 1792 during the French Revolution, only to revert to its original name in 1812. Its church was built in 1152, King Edward III of England's army camped there in 1360 during his failed siege of Paris, the Huguenots destroyed the Bourg-la-Reine church in 1567 during the French Wars of Religion, 40 of the town's 900 inhabitants joined the French Revolutionary Army during the French Revolutionary Wars, the Marquis de Condorcet died while imprisoned in Bourg-l'Égalité during the French Revolution (leading to a bus station and road being named in his honor), the railway arrived in Bourg-la-Reine in 1846, Charles Peguy was one of 170 men from Bourg-la-Reine to die in World War I on his death in battle in 1914, 48 Reginaburgians were killed during World War II, and, from 1977 on, the town's mayor came from one of the liberal third parties. In 2019, Bourg-la-Reine had a population of 21,050 people.
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