Marché des Enfants-Rouges
Marché des Enfants-Rouges (covered market, 3rd arrondissement): €168k of City money since 2010 and 12 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.
168k €
paid by the City for this place since 2010
The Marché des Enfants-Rouges is the oldest covered market in Paris. Wikipedia ↗
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
168k €
paid · 2014–2015
2 building projects paid, from the City’s published accounts.
2 contracts signed in 2014–2021, 100 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
6 moments chosen from the 15 deliberations read.
APRIL 2021Environmental obligations are highlighted in sessionThe Council examined the principle of renewing the public service delegation; Ms Alice TIMSIT (Groupe Ecologiste de Paris) indicated that the new agreement specified obligations on phasing out single-use plastic and on waste recovery.APRIL 2005A change of delegate operator is put to deliberationA deliberation, known only by its title, concerned the authorization granted to Promo Métro to transfer the public service delegation agreement to a new operator, the company E.G.S.SEPTEMBER 2002The City considers opening the market to farming producersAsked about the market's future, the City indicated that an amendment to the regulations was under study to authorize sales on site by farming producers whom the Fédération des C.I.V.A.M., installed under lease in the adjoining municipal building, had committed to recruit.JULY 1999Compensation outside the scope of the agreementThe Council authorized the Mayor of Paris to sign with "Promo métro" a settlement contract to compensate it 3,247,000 francs excluding tax for basement reinforcement works, outside the scope of the 8 April 1997 agreement.MARCH 1997A convergent vote, with a reservation about private managementDebate on the concession to "Promo métro": the mayor of the 3rd arrondissement invited the Assembly to vote unanimously, while Ms Martine DURLACH said she was voting for the project while judging that awarding it to a private company was not the best management method, and noted that the three boarded-up houses in front of the market were not part of the concession.MARCH 1996The case's history is disputed in sessionThe Council debated the principle of the concession: Ms Liliane CAPELLE (Mouvement des citoyens) stated that as recently as the previous year the City had still been considering demolishing the market, listed on the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments by order of 8 March 1982, in favor of a property development with an underground parking structure; the remarks of the mayor of the 3rd arrondissement, Mr Pierre AIDENBAUM, prompted vigorous protests from the "Rassemblement pour Paris" and "Paris-Libertés" benches.2 more moments, 1996–1997
APRIL 1997The market enters the higher fee bracketThe Council set the market's fees effective from 1 May 1997: a stall fee of 90.50 francs per square meter per month, against 44.85 francs in the other covered markets.OCTOBER 1996The City counters the facility project with the premises' floor areaA question from the Socialist group about the three boarded-up houses at the market's front, where the mayor of the 3rd arrondissement proposed a socio-cultural facility: the deputy mayor replied that a community center was not financially viable below a certain floor area and that these houses did not exceed 400 square meters; the question placed the reopening "probably in mid-1997."Other places · Markets & services
