Place Denfert-Rochereau
Place Denfert-Rochereau (square, 14th arrondissement): €901k of City money since 2010, 6 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.
901k €
paid by the City for this place in 2024
The place Denfert-Rochereau is a square in the south of Paris, formerly called "place d'Enfer," located in the city's 14th arrondissement, in the Montparnasse neighbourhood. Wikipedia ↗
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
901k €
paid · 2024
One building project paid, from the City’s published accounts.
6 contracts signed in 2023–2025, 10 €M ceiling
The 6 contracts
Travaux d’infrastructure pour le réaménagement de la place Denfert-RochereauEUROVIA ILE DE FRANCE · 20256.2€MTravaux de végétalisation dans le cadre du réaménagement de la place Denfert-Rochereau à Paris 14eTERIDEAL ESPACES VERTS ILE DE FRANCE · 20251.8€MÉtudes pour le réaménagement de la place Denfert-Rochereau.BUREAU DES PAYSAGES · 2024755k €Acbc-ms Reamenagement Place Denfert Rochereau Paris 14ALEXANDRE CHEMETOFF ET ASSOCIES · 2023465k €Travaux d’éclairage public, d’illuminations et de signalisation lumineuse et tricolore (EP/SLT) dans le cadre du réaménagement de la place Denfert-Rochereau à Paris 14eBOUYGUES ENERGIES & SERVICES · 2025440k €MS maîtrise d’œuvre Reamenagement Place Denfert-rochereauALEXANDRE CHEMETOFF ET ASSOCIES · 2023308k €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 8 deliberations read.
MARCH 2016The square's redevelopment, awaited then contestedIn the debate on the redevelopment of seven squares, a motion from Les Républicains targeted the square; Ms Kosciusko-Morizet judged it "sacrificed" and left out of the project.APRIL 2006Helping renovate the cinemaThe Council authorized an investment grant of €40,000 to the Le Denfert cinema, presented for its renovation and modernization.OCTOBER 2003Repairing access to the underground museumThe Council approved the principle of replacing the gates on the Catacombs visitor circuit and authorized the Mayor to sign the contract.OCTOBER 1998A corner of the square leaves the public domainThe Council declassified a 15 m² plot at the corner of the boulevard Saint-Jacques and authorized its sale to the Syndicat des Transports parisiens (192,000 F), for an RATP kiosk project.4 more moments, 2003–2025
JULY 2025The layout still under debateThe Changer Paris group filed a motion concerning the square's layout.DECEMBER 2024A transformation that comes up, then is withdrawnThe motion from the Les Écologistes group on the square's transformation was withdrawn from the agenda.JULY 2004The City supports the square's cinemaThe Council authorized an operating grant of €20,000 to the Le Denfert cinema, 24 place Denfert-Rochereau, for its programming.JANUARY 2003Local residents worried about a bus laneAn oral question from the UDF group relayed the concern of local residents, who had not been consulted, over the diversion of bus route 38 onto the side lane between the square and the rue Cassini.Other places · Squares & monuments
