Editing Gonesse (section)

==History==

Since [[Carolingian Empire|Carolingian]] times, cereals have been grown in Gonesse. In the period of the 12th through to the 16th centuries, the cultivation of grain was supplemented by drapery, in particular the production of the coarse woollen material of the ''gaunace''.<ref name=HistoiredeGonesse>[http://www.ville-gonesse.fr/delia-CMS/article/article_id-5488/topic_id-300/histoire-de-gonesse-quelques-reperes-historiques.html Histoire de Gonesse – Quelques repères historiques] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003150343/http://www.ville-gonesse.fr/delia-CMS/article/article_id-5488/topic_id-300/histoire-de-gonesse-quelques-reperes-historiques.html |date=2011-10-03 }}. ''Ville-gonesse.fr''. Retrieved 11 July 2011.</ref> The commune was an important producer of [[wheat]] for the [[Paris]]ian market in modern times, until the decline of its bakery trade at the [[French First Republic|end of the 18th century]] helped feed a strong migration to the capital.<ref name=HistoiredeGonesse />

[[File:WasserstoffballonProfCharles.jpg|thumb|left|upright 1.2|The balloon built by Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers is attacked by terrified villagers.]]
The world's [[History of ballooning#First hydrogen balloon|first hydrogen filled]] [[Balloon (aircraft)|balloon]]—the unmanned balloon launched by [[Jacques Charles]] and the [[Robert brothers]] from the [[Champ de Mars, Paris|Champ de Mars]] in Paris on 27&nbsp;August 1783—flew for 45 minutes and landed in Gonesse, where the reportedly terrified local peasants destroyed it with [[pitchforks]]. This caused the government to issue a statement on the harmlessness and the scientific value of such experiments.

In 1815, [[Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy|Marshal Grouchy]] arrived in Gonesse in the course of the [[War of the Sixth Coalition]], with 40,000 troops and 120 artillery pieces. On 2&nbsp;July, the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]] made his headquarters at the commune.

Since June 1939, the property Frapart (the ''Castle'') is used as the main establishment of the urban administration.<ref name=HistoiredeGonesse />

Jean Camus, Louis Furmanek, Pierre Lorgnet, and Albert Drouhot from Gonesse belonged to the [[French Resistance]] movement during the [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|German occupation of France]] from 1940 to 1944.

On 25 July 2000, [[Air France Flight 4590]]—a [[Concorde]] [[supersonic transport]]—crashed onto a hotel in the town after a tyre blew out, caused by running over a strip of metal that had fallen off a [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10|DC-10]] at nearby [[Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport|Charles de Gaulle International Airport]].<ref>Nick Smith: [http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2011/04/classic-projects.cfm Classic engineering projects – Concorde] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506143209/http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2011/04/classic-projects.cfm |date=2011-05-06}}. ''[[Engineering&nbsp;& Technology]]'', 15 April 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011.</ref> The crash led to the deaths of all 109 people on board and four more on the ground.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/851209.stm|title=BBC News – EUROPE – Concorde crash kills 113|website=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=6 April 2018}}</ref> The Concorde crash occurred fewer than 6&nbsp;km from [[Goussainville, Val-d'Oise|Goussainville]], the site of the [[1973 Paris Air Show crash|crash]] of the supersonic [[Tupolev Tu-144]] during the 1973 [[Paris Air Show]].