Place de la Madeleine
Place de la Madeleine (square, 8th arrondissement): €3.5M of City money since 2010 and 15 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.
3.5€M
paid by the City for this place since 2010
The place de la Madeleine is a square in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Wikipedia ↗
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
3.5€M
paid · 2019–2020
2 building projects paid, from the City’s published accounts.
2 contracts signed in 2017–2018, 1.5 €M 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
4 moments chosen from the 22 deliberations read.
NOVEMBER 2019The square renovated, shopkeepers unconvincedDeputy mayor NAJDOVSKI presented the square's redevelopment as completed and disputed any link to commercial losses; the motion from the LRI group was rejected.NOVEMBER 2016The future of the listed Art Nouveau public toiletsA motion warned of the deterioration of the Art Nouveau public toilets, listed since 2011, and called for their facings to be restored before reopening.MARCH 2000The square's major works approvedThe Council approved the principle of the square's second redevelopment phase and authorized the Mayor to sign the works contract.NOVEMBER 1996When the pedestrian square already divides opinionMs SCHNEITER proposed during the session turning the square into a large pedestrian zone; the mayor of the 8th arrondissement, Mr LEBEL, firmly rejected the idea.4 more moments, 1998–2005
SEPTEMBER 2005The flower market's rate setThe Council set the pitch fee for the Madeleine flower market at €0.64 per m² per day.APRIL 2005Beneath the square, a car park and its passagewaysThe Council authorized a contract linking a private garage to the public parking facility beneath the square by a pedestrian corridor.SEPTEMBER 2000Shopkeepers fear the back-to-school worksQuestioned about the delay in road works, Mr PLASAIT detailed a schedule drawn up in consultation with shopkeepers to limit disruption.JUNE 1998The RATP bill revised downwardAn amendment to the agreement with the R.A.T.P. reduced the budgeted expenditure from 9,000,000 F to 7,700,000 F and covered the renovation of the passage Tronchet.Other places · Squares & monuments
