Piscine Joséphine-Baker
Piscine Joséphine-Baker (swimming pool, 13th arrondissement): €16M in signed contracts (maximum amounts) and 5 Paris Council deliberations about it. The source of each item is given.
Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 29 September 2026.
€16M
ordered from companies for this place, at the contracts’ maximum amounts
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 ↗
One of 225 places · €2.9 B paid by the City
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
€16M
contract ceiling · 2014–2022
A contract amount is a maximum: what was paid on it is not published by the City.
At the Conseil de Paris
4 moments chosen from the 5 deliberations about this place.
DECEMBER 2015Motion to align fees and study municipal takeover rejected
Rejection of motion No. 163 requesting rate alignment with municipally managed pools and a study into bringing management under municipal control.Read the decision ↗MARCH 2007Sauna fire: the operator lacked the required insurance
During 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.Read the decision ↗MARCH 2007Operating contract with Vert Marine ended by mutual agreement
Approval of amendment No. 1 for the amicable termination of the operating contract signed with Vert Marine a year earlier.Read the decision ↗JULY 2006Name "Piscine Joséphine Baker" given to the new pool
The Council named the new bathing facility on Quai François Mauriac (13th arrondissement) the 'Piscine Joséphine Baker'.Read the decision ↗One more moment, 2007
MARCH 2007Principle of a new operating contract approved
Approval of the principle of a new services contract for operating the pool moored at the Port de la Gare.Read the decision ↗Other places · Sport & swimming
