Bailleul, Nord

Bailleul

Belle
Bailleul Belle
Commune
	Market place and belfry of Bailleul
	Coat of arms
	Location of Bailleul
	Bailleul Bailleul
	Coordinates: 50°44′21″N 2°44′00″E / 50.7392°N 2.7333°E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Bailleul
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de Flandre Intérieure
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Marc Deneuche
Area 1	43.42 km2 (16.76 sq mi)
Population (2021)	14,869
• Density	340/km2 (890/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59043 /59270
Elevation	14–86 m (46–282 ft) ; (avg. 44 m or 144 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Location of Bailleul in the arrondissement of Dunkirk

Bailleul (Belle in Dutch) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is located in French Flanders, 3 km (2 mi) from the Belgian border and 26 km (16 mi) northwest of Lille.

Population

Population of Bailleul since 1793
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	11,576	—
1800	8,944	−22.7%
1806	9,222	+3.1%
1821	9,475	+2.7%
1831	9,823	+3.7%
1836	9,911	+0.9%
1841	9,923	+0.1%
1846	10,141	+2.2%
1851	10,078	−0.6%
1856	10,108	+0.3%
1861	10,102	−0.1%
1866	12,896	+27.7%
1872	12,828	−0.5%
1876	12,968	+1.1%
1881	12,712	−2.0%
1886	13,335	+4.9%
1891	13,276	−0.4%
1896	13,449	+1.3%
1901	13,530	+0.6%
1906	13,573	+0.3%
1911	13,251	−2.4%
1921	6,651	−49.8%
1926	8,545	+28.5%
1931	9,691	+13.4%
1936	10,928	+12.8%
1946	11,352	+3.9%
1954	11,964	+5.4%
1962	12,583	+5.2%
1968	13,077	+3.9%
1975	13,474	+3.0%
1982	13,400	−0.5%
1990	13,847	+3.3%
1999	14,146	+2.2%
2006	13,616	−3.7%
2009	13,989	+2.7%
2011	14,517	+3.8%
2015	14,337	−1.2%

Politics

Presidential Elections 2nd Round

Election		Winning Candidate	Party	%
style="background-color: Template:En Marche!/meta/color" \|	2017	Emmanuel Macron	En Marche!	56.30
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" \|	2012	François Hollande	PS	50.87
style="background-color: Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" \|	2007	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	51.52
style="background-color: Template:Rally for the Republic/meta/color" \|	2002	Jacques Chirac	RPR	82.44

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Heraldry

Arms of Bailleul	The arms of Bailleul are blazoned : Gules, a cross vair.

Media

Bailleul is the birthplace of French filmmaker Bruno Dumont and served as the setting for his first two feature films. This area is also a setting in the Timothy Findley book The Wars.

Carnival

The inhabitants of Bailleul celebrate carnival with five days of processions and other festivities. The carnival has taken place since 1853, when the Philanthropic Company of Bailleul was founded. During the event, a search takes place for the needy ones of the city. The Gargantua Giant chairs the festivities, seated on his float and accompanied by his kitchen boys.

At the end of Shrove Tuesday, after the final procession of around 50 floats, with local groups, brass bands and plenty of confetti, Doctor Francisco Piccolissimo tries to cure the excesses of some inhabitants in an unconventional way in front of the town hall, and the festival continues late into the night in the town's cafés and bars.