Place de la Nation
Place de la Nation (square, 12th arrondissement): €6.3M paid by the City in 2019 and 13 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.
€6.3M
paid by the City for this place in 2019
The place de la Nation, formerly the "place du Trône" and then the "place du Trône-Renversé," is a square in Paris located on the boundary between the city's 11th and 12th arrondissements. Wikipedia ↗
One of 225 places · €2.9 B paid by the City
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
€7.5M
paid · 2019–2020
The 3 projects
Place de la Nation - Réaménagement2019 · City accounts€4.5MJardin de Marianne - Végétalisation place de la Nation2019 · City accounts€1.8MPlace de la Nation - Réaménagement2020 · City accounts€1.1MThe contract · 2018, €1.5 M ceiling
MS Travaux Espaces Verts Aménagement Place de la NationMARCEL VILLETTE · 2018€1.5MA contract amount is a ceiling: what was actually paid on it is not published by the City.
At the Conseil de Paris
5 moments chosen from the 13 deliberations about this place.
DECEMBER 2019Motion backed to block a McDonald's at no. 19 of the square
The executive backed a motion calling for a McDonald's to be prevented from opening at 19 of the square.Read the decision ↗JUNE 2017Motion unanimously adopted to make a toy library on the square permanent
The Council unanimously adopted a motion to make a games library on the square permanent.Read the decision ↗JANUARY 2017Plaque approved in memory of the seven killed on 14 July 1953
A deliberation concerned a plaque in memory of the seven people who died on 14 July 1953.Read the decision ↗MAY 2016Damage from demonstrations ending at the square denounced
Les Républicains raised the alarm over the damage caused by demonstrations that end up at the square.Read the decision ↗MARCH 2016Transformation into a garden square announced, among seven redeveloped squares
The City announced the Nation would be "transformed into a garden square" among seven squares being redeveloped.Read the decision ↗3 more moments, 1995–2005
OCTOBER 2005Restoration of the Trône columns requested, with no reply
An elected official called for the restoration of the Colonnes du Trône; no reply came.Read the decision ↗JUNE 2001Three contracts approved to redevelop avenue du Trône up to the square
The Council approved the terms for awarding three contracts to redevelop the avenue du Trône, up to the place de la Nation.Read the decision ↗JULY 199520,000 F grant approved for the shopkeepers' commercial events
The City granted (20,000 F) funding for commercial promotion by the square's shopkeepers' association.Read the decision ↗Other places · Squares & monuments
