Square · 14e

Place Denfert-Rochereau

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.

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Actually paid

901k €

Ordered (contract ceilings)

10€M

Works paid for, year by year901 k €

Place Denfert Rocherau - Aménagement2024901 k €

Contracts signed for this place10 €M

Travaux d’infrastructure pour le réaménagement de la place Denfert-RochereauEUROVIA ILE DE FRANCE · 20256.2 €M Travaux de végétalisation dans le cadre du réaménagement de la place Denfert-Rochereau à Paris 14eTERIDEAL ESPACES VERTS ILE DE FRANCE · 20251.8 €M Études pour le réaménagement de la place Denfert-Rochereau.BUREAU DES PAYSAGES · 2024755 k €

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Acbc-ms Reamenagement Place Denfert Rochereau Paris 14ALEXANDRE CHEMETOFF ET ASSOCIES · 2023465 k €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 · 2025440 k €MS maîtrise d’œuvre Reamenagement Place Denfert-rochereauALEXANDRE CHEMETOFF ET ASSOCIES · 2023308 k €

Maximum amount set in the contract, not the final spend: what was actually paid on each contract is not published by the City. Each line links to the contract record.

Key moments

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.

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.

APRIL 2006helping renovate the cinemaThe Council authorized an investment grant of €40,000 to the Le Denfert cinema, presented for its renovation and modernization.

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.

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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.

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.

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 2025the layout still under debateThe Changer Paris group filed a motion concerning the square's layout.

AI reading of 8 documents out of the 1097 returned by the search — each line links to its deliberation.

In the Municipal Bulletin

The place Denfert-Rochereau appears only in scattered mentions in the Bulletin municipal, but always as a place the City adorns or opens to visitors. In 1895, it is listed among the squares to be decorated for festivities: 1,500 francs are allocated for its bunting and illumination. In 1931, the Bulletin tells visitors that the entrance to the Catacombs is in the courtyard of the pavilion at No. 2 of the square. In 1949, it is again at the pavilion at 1 place Denfert-Rochereau that the maps published by the Inspection générale des Carrières are put on sale. From one decade to the next, the square thus remains, in the archive, the official gateway to the underground of Paris.

Read the 3 citations in the municipal bulletin archives (Gallica)

1895“17° Bunting and illumination of the place Denfert-Rochereau, 1,500 francs … 18th arrondissement. — Place de la Mairie, 2,800 francs … Chaumont, place de la Nati…”

1931“The entrance to the Catacombs is in the courtyard of the pavilion located at place Denfert-Rochereau, No. 2 … Morning fog, dense in places, in the suburbs (Sevr…”

1949“The maps published by the Inspection générale des Carrières are on sale at 1 place Denfert-Rochereau”

Account written by AI from the selected extracts of the city’s official bulletin — each extract links to the scanned page on Gallica.

Sources

Conseil de Paris (Débat-Délibs) ↗ · Bulletin municipal officiel (Gallica/BnF) ↗ · CA annexes, Ville de Paris · Wikipédia ↗

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