The 2nd arrondissement of Paris ( II arrondissement ) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France . In spoken French, this arrondissement is colloquially referred to as deuxième (second/the second). It is governed locally together with the 1st , 3rd and 4th arrondissement , with which it forms the 1st sector of Paris.
22-649: The Théâtre Louvois ( French pronunciation: [teatʁ luvwa] ) or Salle Louvois ( [sal luvwa] ) was a theatre located at what is today 8 rue de Louvois in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris . Inaugurated in 1791 and closed in 1825, it was used by the Théâtre-Italien from 20 March 1819 to 8 November 1825. Gioachino Rossini became Director of Music on 1 December 1824. 48°52′06″N 2°20′14″E / 48.868361°N 2.337218°E / 48.868361; 2.337218 2nd arrondissement of Paris Also known as Bourse, this arrondissement
44-490: A positive sign of market recovery, the group announced in mid-March 2018 a net loss, group share, of 576.3 million euros for 2017. It reopened these negotiations on April 20, 2018: in agreement with its shareholders, it announced suspended rent payments and debt servicing pending ongoing negotiations with lessors and creditors, in order to focus funds on "operational priorities and market recovery", which "should encourage parties to reach an agreement as soon as possible". In view of
66-530: Is located on the right bank of the River Seine . The 2nd arrondissement, together with the adjacent 8th and 9th arrondissements, hosts an important business district, centred on the Paris Opéra , which houses the city's most dense concentration of business activities. The arrondissement contains the former Paris Bourse ( stock exchange ) and several banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as
88-461: Is present in more than 30 countries. Bourbon's activity evolves around 4 businesses: In 1948, the Bourbon Group was born from the merger of several family companies on the island of Reunion, with a view to reviving the local sugar industry, under the name of Sucreries de Bourbon. It was then directed by Émile Hugot. Its markets are sugar, but also rum, destined for metropolitan France. In 1989,
110-679: Is the sole state-operated high school in the arrondissement. École Élémentaire Privée Saint-Sauveur is the sole private primary school institution in the second arrondissement. Private secondary school institutions include École du 2nd Degré Général Privée Rene Reaumur , École Générale et Technologique Privée Lafayette , École du 2nd degré professionnel privée CTRE PRI ENS SOINS ESTHETIQUES , École du 2nd degré professionnel privée EC INTERNATIONALE DE COIFFURE , École du 2nd degré professionnel privée ECOLE DE BIJOUTERIE-JOAILLERIE , and École technologique privée ITECOM INST TECHN COMMUNIC . There are several streets with an Egyptian connection in
132-592: The arrondissement was created in 1860, so we do not have figures before 1861. An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. The French newspaper L'Obs has its head office in
154-886: The Galerie Vivienne , the Passage Choiseul , the Galerie Colbert , the Passage des Princes , the Passage du Grand Cerf , the Passage du Caire , the Passage Lemoine , the Passage Jouffroy , the Passage Basfour , the Passage du Bourg-L'abbé , and the Passage du Ponceau . The 2nd arrondissement is Paris's smallest arrondissement, with a land area of just 0.992 km , or 99.2 hectares (0.383 sq. miles, or 245 acres). The 2nd arrondissement reached its peak of settlement in
176-608: The Sentier , and the Opéra-Comique 's theatre, the Salle Favart . The 2nd arrondissement is the home of Grand Rex, the largest movie theater in Paris. The 2nd arrondissement is also the home of most of Paris's surviving 19th-century glazed commercial arcades. At the beginning of the 19th century, most of the streets of Paris were dark, muddy, and lacked sidewalks . A few entrepreneurs copied
198-662: The Bourbon brands) and becomes the group's new majority shareholder. The finalization of the financial restructuring in December 2020 brought new shareholders into the capital of the SPP: ICBCL and Standard Chartered Bank with approximately 18% and 10% of the capital respectively [ref. necessary]. The January 2020 disposal causes a "total loss" for the former shareholders. In April 2020, the former holding company (Bourbon Corporation), formerly majority-owned by Jaccar Holdings (which owned 52.8% of
220-605: The Second Market of the Paris Stock Exchange . The group separated from its historical activities between 2001 and 2002 and accelerated its refocusing on maritime services by positioning itself with, from 2003, on deep offshore maritime services in Brazil and West Africa and in 2004 on subsea operations by acquiring the company Gaia Enterprise , which a year later became Bourbon Offshore Gaia. In October 2003, Bourbon entered
242-510: The area, reflecting interest in Napoleon 's Egypt expedition of 1798–1801: rue du Nil , rue du Caire , passage du Caire, rue d' Aboukir , and rue d' Alexandrie . Bourbon (group) Bourbon is a French shipping company, based in Marseilles. Bourbon operates in the field of surface and submarine maritime services, on oil, gas and wind farms. The company has 6,820 employees, and the group
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#1733085997297264-798: The arrondissement. Bourbon has its head office in the arrondissement. All Nippon Airways has its Paris Office in the arrondissement. China Airlines also has its France office in the arrondissement. Aigle Azur 's registered office is in the arrondissement. In terms of state-operated schools, the second arrondissement has three nursery schools ( écoles maternelles ), five primary schools ( écoles élémentaires ), and one high school ( lycée ). The nursery schools are École Maternelle Dussoubs , École Maternelle Saint Denis , and École Maternelle Vivienne . The primary schools are École Élémentaire Beauregard , École Élémentaire Dussoubs , École Élémentaire Etienne Marcel , École Élémentaire Jussienne , and École Élémentaire Louvois . Collège César Franck
286-525: The capital of Naïade Resorts , a group managing the hotels Les Villas du Lagon, Les Villas du Récif and Les Créoles. In August 2007, the group resold its shares to shareholders of the hotel group. In May 2005, the group bought out CBo Territoria in the area of property development. It is a question of exploiting the land heritage inherited by the group's chairman and managing director, Jacques de Chateauvieux. In 2013, he sold his shares in CBo Territoria to
308-505: The capital on July 14, 2019), was placed in compulsory liquidation. The shares are delisted on June 22, 2020. In October 2020, Bourbon sold Les Abeilles to the Econocom group. Bourbon Maritime is coming out of receivership in December 2020 with a sharp reduction in its debt. Faced with the deepest crisis that the oil industry has gone through since the 1990s, Bourbon announced in February 2018
330-402: The end of 2014, the oil sector was marked by the sudden drop in the price of a barrel of oil, the start of a deep crisis for the entire offshore market. Then, in December 2017, it was transferred from Paris to Marseilles (with ratification on May 30, 2018). The offshore market crisis continued and led Bourbon to sign a debt restructuring agreement with its creditor banks in mid-2017. Without
352-485: The financial difficulties, its shareholders authorize it to postpone for one year an interest payment of approximately 3.9 million euros normally due in April 2018. In July 2019, heavily indebted, the group requested the opening of receivership proceedings for its 2 holding companies Bourbon Corporation and Bourbon Maritime. Which is accepted on August 7. The title of the company collapses on the stock market. On November 8, 2019,
374-409: The group continued its diversification in mainland France with the acquisition of 50% of Compagnie Chambon (Marseilles) in 1991. It thus took control of the company Surf . The group then expanded into the offshore oil and gas maritime services sector, for which it acquired the companies Les Abeilles (towage) and Setaf-Saget (solid bulk transport) in 1996. In 1998, the Bourbon Group went public, on
396-731: The group diversified, first in La Réunion, into industrial fishing (1989), mass distribution (1991) and dairy products (1992). Subsequently, the large food distribution subsidiary established itself in the Indian Ocean and in Vietnam with the Score supermarkets and the Jumbo Score hypermarkets via its Vindémia subsidiary, which was sold in 2005 to the Casino Group (sale that became final in 2007) . Then,
418-407: The listing of the security is suspended. The court's decision on the takeover of the group comes on December 23, 2019 when only one official offer from the creditor banks has been filed. On January 10, 2020, Société Phocéenne de Participation (SPP), owned by a group of French banks uniting the creditors representing 75% of the group's debt, acquires 100% of the assets of Bourbon Corporation (including
440-904: The managers of the property company. In 2005, the Bourbon Group became BOURBON. The head office, first based in La Réunion, in Sainte-Marie, was transferred to Paris in June 2005. Bourbon entered the SBF 120 index of the Paris Stock Exchange in 2006 Bourbon sold the port towage business in 2007 and positioned itself in the Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) market for offshore oil fields. In 2008, Bourbon acquired DNT Offshore, an Italian company specializing in underwater robot operations. The group then separated from its "ancillary" activities (sweets, bulk transport, etc.) to refocus on offshore maritime services. At
462-456: The success of the Passage des Panoramas and its well-lit, dry, and paved pedestrian passageways. By the middle of the 19th century, there were about two dozen of these commercial malls, but most of them disappeared as the Paris authorities paved the main streets and added sidewalks, as well as gas street lighting . The commercial survivors are – in addition to the Passage des Panoramas –
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#1733085997297484-485: The years before 1861, although it has only existed in its current shape since the re-organization of Paris in 1860. As of the last census (in 1999), the population was 19,585, while the number of jobs provided there was 61,672 – this despite a land area of only 0.992 km , making it the arrondissement with the densest concentration of commercial activity in the capital, with an average of 62,695 jobs per km . ¹ The peak of population actually occurred before 1861, but
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