VIlI.7. MORE GIFTS FROM CITY HALL

RENEWED INFRASTRUCTURE AND A CITY HALL THAT CONSULTS AND INFORMS

(SOCIAL DEMOCRAT SINCE 2001)  

Place d'Italie: enlarged toward 1850 to assemble troops, then a roundabout, now a garden (for that evolution, please click and scroll down)...

Place d'Italie, musée Carnavalet, 1958 / zoom

Under construction, 2019

Since 2021

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Although there's been a library since the 1970s, a multi-media center was open in 1989 and renovated in 2019...

The Médiathèque Jean-Pierre Melville

 At métro Olympiades 

A section in Chinese. There is also one in Vietnamese.

 A full floor for children

Announcements

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Environmental awareness 

(In 2025)

•  Bus run by electricity 

• Among the many examples of greening, the passage between parc de Choisy and a field for sports 

Passed as you walk along the passage

     

The passage now

The transformed passage was open to the public on the morning of the Festival's Grand Finale.

The passage as seen now from parc de Choisy 

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Authorities consult and inform:

• "The future central garden in 4 key points" 

In the background, the first library

 "Meet your municipal team" /  "Meet your municipal police"  

Voting for the "Participatory budget" in front of City Hall: Residents propose and select 25% of the City's investment funds for projects in culture, sports, the environment or health.

Almost 3,300 projects have been realized in the City-wide program that began in 2014. For the "Arch of Fraternity" in the Asian neighborhood please click here, and for a grand mural that evokes La Commune, here and scroll down.  

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In the run-off for the 2020 municipal election the mayor, Jérôme Coumet, won in a landslide.

Merci! Sign pasted over the rival candidate's panel 

In 2026 he won in the first round, with 51,52 %.

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His New Year greetings

express the fraternity he puts in practice.

"In these troubled times, I do not forget

the values that unite us and notably fraternity.

Excellent and happy 2025!"

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VIII.8.

A place to pitch your tent