8.7. MORE GIFTS FROM CITY HALL

RENEWED INFRASTRUCTURE AND A CITY HALL THAT CONSULTS AND INFORMS

(SOCIAL DEMOCRAT SINCE 2001)  

           City Hall

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

Trip Advisor /zoom

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.

 Bibliothèque d'Italie

213 boulevard Vincent Auriol (next to place d'Italie) 

The Médiathèque Jean-Pierre Melville

 At métro Olympiades 

Of course there are newspapers, magazines, cds, books, exhibits and events, computers to use on the spot and...

The history shelves have a good choice of current studies. One can ask for older works from the Central Reserve.

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

A full floor for children

At the entry, books to deposit or take  

At the exit, announcements for help in French conversation.

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Environmental awareness: buses run by electricity, truck for picking up things that rot, and greening (examples here and here).

 

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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" 

 

Same invitation concerning the police at the entry of the garden event 

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. The "Arch of Fraternity" in the Asian neighborhood appears here, and a grand mural that evokes La Commune, here (at the end of the page).

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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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8.8.

A place to pitch your tent