Piscine Joséphine-Baker
Piscine Joséphine-Baker (swimming pool, 13th arrondissement): €16M of City money since 2010 and 5 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.
16€M
ordered from companies for this place — contract ceilings, not spending
The Piscine Joséphine-Baker, or Paris 13 pool: Joséphine Baker, is a floating swimming pool moored on the banks of the Seine in Paris, at the Quai François-Mauriac in the 13th arrondissement. Wikipedia ↗
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
16€M
contract ceiling · 2014–2022
3 contracts signed in 2014–2022, 16 €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
4 moments chosen from the 6 deliberations read.
DECEMBER 2015The management arrangement remains contested nine years onRejection of motion No. 163 requesting rate alignment with municipally managed pools and a study into bringing management under municipal control.MARCH 2007An incident reveals a gap in insurance coverageDuring the debate, it was stated that after a fire in a sauna the operator did not have the necessary insurance; the facility was described as 'first and foremost a boat' and as the only pool in Paris open two evenings a week until midnight.MARCH 2007The first operator leaves the facilityApproval of amendment No. 1 for the amicable termination of the operating contract signed with Vert Marine a year earlier.JULY 2006The official naming of the placeThe Council named the new bathing facility on Quai François Mauriac (13th arrondissement) the 'Piscine Joséphine Baker'.Other places · Sport & swimming
