Île aux Cygnes
Île aux Cygnes (promenade, 15th arrondissement): €1.4M of City money since 2010 and 6 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.
1.4€M
paid by the City for this place since 2010
L’île aux Cygnes, anciennement digue de Grenelle, est une île artificielle située sur la Seine, à Paris, entre les 16e et 15e arrondissements, et administrativement rattachée à ce dernier. Wikipedia ↗
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
1.4€M
paid · 2023–2024
4 building projects paid, from the City’s published accounts.
One contract signed in 2016, 52 k € ceiling
A contract amount is a ceiling: what was actually paid on it is not published by the City.
What the Paris Council said about it
3 moments chosen from the 6 deliberations read.
NOVEMBER 2018Shift from a commitment to a stated intentionThe executive amends a motion: "continues" the rehabilitation becomes "is considering continuing"MARCH 2011Actual vote, rules out the idea of a floating libraryThe Council adopts, with two abstentions, the motion naming the site after Andrée ChédidSEPTEMBER 2004First recorded debate on the site's futureMotion to study (without funding) an educational arboretum on the island3 more moments, 2011–2023
OCTOBER 2023Latest known signal, content not detailedMotion from the Indépendants et Progressistes group on renovation worksJULY 2021New political alert, details not preservedMotion from the Changer Paris group on the island and the Statue of LibertyMARCH 2011Literary tribute proposed by councillors from the 15th arrondissementMotion to name a portion of the island in tribute to Andrée ChedidOther places · Parks & gardens
