Tour Saint-Jacques
Tour Saint-Jacques (monument, 4th arrondissement): €161k of City money since 2010, 7 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.
161k €
paid by the City for this place since 2010
The Tour Saint-Jacques is the former bell tower, built between 1509 and 1523, of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, a church of which this tower is the sole remaining trace. Wikipedia ↗
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
161k €
paid · 2010–2012
2 building projects paid, from the City’s published accounts.
Outside the figure: 254 k € of works and renovation, in 2009. The City publishes investment from 2009, subsidies from 2010.
What the Paris Council said about it
5 moments chosen from the 7 deliberations read.
JULY 2023Removing the railings is only under study; the deputy mayor and the mayor of Paris Centre disagree on the priority to give it.Motion by Maud GATEL asking that the square's railings be kept: deputy mayor Christophe NAJDOVSKI defended studying their removal, while Ariel WEIL, mayor of Paris Centre, placed the urgency elsewhere and mentioned railings removed in 1969 and put back in 1995.JUNE 2014According to the mayor of the 4th arrondissement, opening the site to visitors followed the statuary restoration work.A temporary public-domain occupancy agreement was examined; the mayor of the 4th arrondissement, Christophe GIRARD, supported it and linked the tower's opening to visitors to the statuary restoration work and to a request from the Saint-Merri neighbourhood council.JULY 2008397,976.42 euros including tax for the square's green spaces: the costing covers the surroundings, not the tower's stonework.The Mayor was authorized to sign lot no. 5, "green spaces" — restoring the square — for an amount of 397,976.42 euros including tax, with the company CERCIS.MARCH 2004Before any works contract, the operation received its framework: project management in four tranches, three of them conditional.The principle of the façade-restoration operation was approved; the Mayor was authorized to sign the project-management contract, negotiated in four tranches, with Jean-François LAGNEAU, lead contractor, and Jacques DESMARQUEST, co-contractor.OCTOBER 1995The R.A.T.P. Was to contribute to restoring the square; the deliberation left the terms to an attached agreement and stated neither the nature nor the amount of that contribution.The principle of redeveloping the square was approved, the works planned in six separate lots, and the Mayor authorized to sign an agreement with the R.A.T.P. setting the terms of its contribution to restoring the square.2 more moments, 1999–2005
FEBRUARY 2005Of the three tranches in the stone-and-sculpture lot, only one is firm.Awarding lot no. 1, "cut stone; sculpture; sculpture restoration," was approved: an open European tender, one firm tranche and two conditional tranches.OCTOBER 1999The scaffolding was approved in 1999; the principle of restoring the façades would not be approved until March 2004.The principle of supplying and erecting scaffolding on the tower was approved, the contract planned as an open tender with a single tranche and single lot, and the Mayor authorized to sign it.Other places · Squares & monuments
