Parc Monceau
Parc Monceau (park, 8th arrondissement): €580k of City money since 2010, 12 Paris Council deliberations and municipal bulletin extracts, every fact linked to its source.
Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 13 September 2026.
580k €
paid by the City for this place since 2010
Parc Monceau is a pleasure garden located in the Europe neighborhood of the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Wikipedia ↗
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
580k €
paid · 2023–2024
4 building projects paid, from the City’s published accounts.
One contract signed in 2023, 146 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 13 deliberations read.
JUNE 2016Governance: an agreement outside the deliberation processA motion against the "privatization" of the park, closed to the public for one night for 2,000 campers invited by Michel et Augustin; the opposition demanded the terms of the contract and the fee, which was not given a figure in session.JULY 2011Heritage conflict versus working conditionsA building and demolition permit for the gardeners' and reception staff's premises: Lebel saw it as the "parceling out" of a park listed as a historic monument, while Giboudeaux cited premises that were "unfit, sometimes underground."SEPTEMBER 2009Third-party occupation, a consensual versionThe Council authorized an agreement with the Syndicat National d'Apiculture to install beehives in the park, for a maximum of three years, tacitly renewable.JANUARY 2002The exact political reversal of 1998The lawns having been opened in June 2001, the mayor of the 8th arrondissement, François Lebel, requested their winter closure; Yves Contassot confirmed that Monceau had been the only major garden entirely closed and announced repairs for 2002.OCTOBER 1998Starting point: closed lawns, request refusedDelanoë, Bertinotti, Schapira and the Socialist group requested that the lawns be opened; the municipal response refused, the park having "from the outset" been classified among those whose lawns remain closed.MAY 1996The only works contract in the corpusThe Council approved the principle of renovating the two main paths and the corresponding works contract, charged to the capital budget (chapter 901) with no amount shown.2 more moments, 2002–2004
SEPTEMBER 2004An upgrade budgeted but never carried outTwo joint questions denounced the playground's dilapidated state and noted that an upgrade budgeted in a previous year had never been carried out; an inspection was announced for the end of 2004.JANUARY 2002Police record, the only verified figures in the corpusQuestioned about insecurity, the Prefect of Police acknowledged a rise in crime in 2001 "even though the figures remain low": 24 complaints, 5 incident reports, 328 mountain-bike patrols.Further back, in the municipal bulletin: 1968 · 1962 · 1950 · 1928
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