Fontaine des Innocents
Fontaine des Innocents (monument, 1st arrondissement): €1.7M of City money since 2010 and 2 Paris Council deliberations, every fact linked to its source.
Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 13 September 2026.
1.7€M
ordered from companies for this place — contract ceilings, not spending
The Fontaine des Innocents, originally called the Fontaine des Nymphes, is a fountain located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, on the present-day place Joachim-du-Bellay in the Les Halles neighborhood. Wikipedia ↗
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
1.7€M
contract ceiling · 2021–2023
3 contracts signed in 2021–2023, 1.7 €M ceiling
A contract amount is a ceiling, not spending: what was actually paid on it is not published by the City.
What the Paris Council said about it
2 moments found in the 2 deliberations read.
MAY 2017Two and a half years later, the opposition claims nothing has moved forwardThe Les Républicains group filed a new motion; Jean-François LEGARET stated that nothing had begun and that no budget had been committed, despite the 4 million euros the Direction du Patrimoine et de l'Architecture had reportedly allocated.NOVEMBER 2014The initial commitment in principle that set everything in motionConseil de Paris unanimously adopted a motion from the UMP group for the fountain's rescue; the executive was in favor, and Bruno Julliard said he wanted to include it in the term's investment plan.Other places · Squares & monuments
