List of places named after Pierre Brossolette

Places named after French Resistance leader and hero Pierre Brossolette

Population ranking based on official INSEE county (commune) list - 2010

Summary
More than 600 public places can be accounted for bearing the name of Pierre Brossolette, a top leader and hero of French Resistance, making it one of the top-20 most-featured all-time public names in France. Most of them were inaugurated before 1964, in which period he was actually considered the most influential leader and the greatest hero of the wartime period. Accessorily, street inaugurations were systematically made, before Jean Moulin's Panthéon enthronement in 1964, according to the official government "tripartite" chart: Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (representing royalists and by extension the right-wing), Pierre Brossolette (socialists) and Gabriel Péri (communists).

Among these places, most are streets/squares distributed all over France, including overseas counties like La Réunion. The total count nears 500 (at least 490 actually) streets ranging from boulevards to cul-de-sacs, squares and greens, quays and bridges.

Also at least 76 schools, 27 venues (stadia, gyms, community centers), 8 estates/projects and 23 condominia can be counted, adding up to a minimum count of 624 places (not including building and street plaques, steles and monuments).

By county
As of 2010, France counts 36 683 counties averaging an area of 14.88 km².

Among top 500 counties in France
The top 500 populated counties account for a population of 26.5M (40% of the overall French population).


 * Street/square count: 211


 * County count: 199


 * Population coverage: 52% (13.6M inhabitants)

In a nutshell, 1 out of 2 Frenchmen residing in a top 500 county will have that county featuring a street/square Pierre-Brossolette.

Remaining featured French counties

 * Street/square count: 282


 * County count: 272

By urban area
As of 2010, INSEE defines 3 levels of urban areas: specific metropolitan areas (grandes aires urbaines), specific city/town areas (moyennes/petites aires urbaines) and generic areas constituted by multi-centered counties (communes multipolarisées) where both previous areas may overlap.

Each specific urban area is further divided into urban cores (pôles) and suburban rings (couronnes).

Current official count is 771 continental and 21 overseas specific urban areas, out of which 231 and 11 respectively are leveled as metropolitan.

Among metropolitan urban areas
Metropolitan urban areas account for a population of 51.0M (77% of the overall French population).

Among metropolitan urban cores
Urban cores of metropolitan areas account for a population of 38.8M (59% of the overall French population).


 * Metropolitan Urban Core count: 103 out of 230 continental (45%) and 1 out of 11 overseas, totaling 104 out of 241 (43%).
 * Population coverage: 39% (15.0M inhabitants).

In a nutshell, 4 out of 5 Frenchmen dwelling in a top 50 metropolitan core will have that urban core featuring at least one street/square Pierre-Brossolette.

Featured metropolitan suburban rings
Suburban rings of metropolitan areas account for a population of 12.2M (19% of the overall French population)


 * Metropolitan Suburban Ring count: 28 out of 207 continental (14%) and 0 out of 6 overseas, totaling 28 out of 213 (13%).


 * Population coverage: 2.8% (0.34M inhabitants).

Featured city/town urban areas
City/town urban areas account for a population of 5.0M (8% of the overall French population)


 * City/Town Area count: 41 out of 540 continental (7,5%) and 0 out of 10 overseas.

Featured multi-centered counties
Multi-centered counties cover a population of 6.9M (10% of the overall French population). These generic urban areas correspond to 30% of the overall French counties.


 * Multi-centered Counties count: 28 (out of 11 015)

''Obs.: The area accounting for the remaining 5% (3.1M) of the French population (and 20% of French counties) is constituted by counties deemed isolated from any urban influence, corresponding to the deprecated definition of rural areas though still defined as non-urban. The featured county count for this area is 9 (out of 7 414).''

By region/province

 * Île-de-France's #1 Paris metropolitan area alone accounts for 127 counties featuring streets/squares Pierre-Brossolette.
 * Lyonnais' #2 Lyon metropolitan area is notably under-featured, as a direct consequence of rivalries between Paris-based occupied zone (ZO) and Lyon-based free zone (ZL) resistance networks, led respectively by Pierre Brossolette and Jean Moulin. Lyon county is furthermore the only top 6 metropolitan-area's downtown county not to be featured.
 * Provence's #3 Marseille, Aix and Avignon, Limousin's Limoges (and its Maquis) and Artois' Lens-Douai areas are heavily featured. These are traditionally left-wing regions.
 * Aquitaine's #4 Bordeaux, Flandre's #5 Lille and Dunkerque, Midi's #6 Toulouse, Montauban and Auch areas are strongly featured. These are mostly left-wing regions.
 * Pays-de-Loire's #8 Nantes, a traditionally right-winged region, is notably under-featured, while traditionally left-winged Anjou's Angers and Touraine's Tours are well featured.
 * Wartime-annexed Côte d'Azur's #7 Nice, Alsace's #9 Strasbourg, Lorraine's Metz and Nancy, Savoy's Chambéry, Annecy and Annemasse areas are not or all-but featured.
 * Border Dauphiné's #10 Grenoble (despite proximity to Maquis du Vercors), Roussillon's Perpignan, Pays-basque's Bayonne and Hainaut's Valenciennes areas are all but featured.
 * Champagne's Reims, Troyes, Châlons and Chaumont areas are quite naturally over-featured as Brossolette's base region, despite being mostly right-wing areas.
 * Brittany's Lorient area is outstandingly featured, seconded by Rennes, Brest and Quimper, as various exfiltrations were conducted in the region among which Brossolette's last.
 * Languedoc's Nîmes, Béziers, Carcassonne and Narbonne areas, unlike Montpellier, are strongly featured, as various sea exfiltrations were conducted in the region.
 * Normandy's Rouen, Le Havre and Évreux, traditionally left-winged areas, are well featured, while Caen area is all but featured despite being the Normandy-landings area.
 * Picardy's Amiens and Saint-Quentin, Maine's Le Mans and Laval, Orléanais' Orléans, Chartres and Blois areas are well featured. They lie close to the Paris metropolitan area.
 * Auvergne's Clermont-Ferrand area is all but featured despite being mostly left-wing. It lies close to Bourbonnais' Vichy, French puppet-state capital, and Moulins - both unfeatured.
 * Poitou's Poitiers, Burgundy's Dijon, Berry's Bourges, Franche-Comté's Besançon and Bresse's Bourg are unfeatured. These are areas with lesser wartime involvement.
 * Provincial Forez's Saint-Étienne, Nivernais' Nevers, Marche's Guéret, Charente's Angoulême, Béarn's Pau and Bigorre's Tarbes areas are featured, unlike Foix's Pamiers.

Walloon county

 * Seraing, province of Liège, Belgium — Place (Square) Pierre-Brossolette

Totals

 * Street/square count: 490


 * Obs.: at least 4 streets are double-counted as they border two counties: Montrouge (rank 128) / Malakoff (249), Draveil (284) / Vigneux-sur-seine (305), Villeneuve-le-Roi (503) / Ablon-sur-Seine (2 000), Pierrefitte-Nestalas (7 743) / Soulom (24 935). The count above is rectified accordingly.


 * County count: 472
 * Urban Area count: 148 out of 771 continental (19%) and 1 out of 21 overseas, totaling 149 out of 792 (18%)
 * Département count: 81 out of 95 (continental) and 1 out of 5 (overseas), totaling 82 out of 100.


 * Region count: 22 (all French regions except non-mainland Corsica, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane and Mayotte)
 * Population coverage: 24% (15.8M) of the overall French population (66.1M).

Schools
Count: 76

Sports, leisure and cultural venues
Count: 27

Housing estates/projects
Cité Brossolette

Count: 8

Retirement/private condominia
Résidence Brossolette

Count: 23

Memorial steles
Saint-Saëns, Seine-Maritime (76), Normandie Plogoff, Finistère (29), Bretagne

Harbor
Port Brossolette

Location: Narbonne-Plage, Narbonne County, Aude (10), Languedoc-Roussillon

The harbor features the:

Monument Pierre Brossolette Memorial
A unique aeolian memorial where 4 wind pipes would play the 4 chords of Beethoven's 5th symphony, in a reference to the BBC's Radio Londres opening. The pipes have been muted as the desert beach developed postwar into a balneary. The pipes have actually been stolen recently.

Port Brossolette Lighthouse
Modern-styled concrete lighthouse