Tour Saint-Jacques
Tour Saint-Jacques (monument, 4th arrondissement): €62k paid by the City in 2012, 7 Paris Council deliberations about it and municipal bulletin extracts. The source of each item is given.
Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 29 September 2026.
€62k
paid by the City for this place in 2012
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 ↗
One of 225 places · €2.9 B paid by the City
What the City funds here
Works and renovation
€161k
paid · 2010–2012
Outside the figure: €254 k of works and renovation, in 2009. The City publishes investment from 2009, subsidies from 2010.
At the Conseil de Paris
5 moments chosen from the 7 deliberations about this place.
JULY 2023Motion to keep the square's railings; their removal under study
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.Read the decision ↗JUNE 2014Temporary occupancy agreement examined, to open the tower for visits
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.Read the decision ↗JULY 2008The square's landscaping lot signed for €397,976 including tax
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.Read the decision ↗MARCH 2004Facade restoration approved; design contract split into four phases
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.Read the decision ↗OCTOBER 1995Square redevelopment approved in six lots; agreement with the RATP
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.Read the decision ↗2 more moments, 1999–2005
FEBRUARY 2005Stone-and-sculpture lot approved: one firm phase, two optional ones
Awarding lot no. 1, "cut stone; sculpture; sculpture restoration," was approved: an open European tender, one firm tranche and two conditional tranches.Read the decision ↗OCTOBER 1999Erecting scaffolding on the tower approved, contract put out to tender
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.Read the decision ↗Other places · Squares & monuments
