Town hall of Paris

The town hall of Paris , also named town hall of Paris , indicates at the same time the administration, the elected local officials and the building where they sit.

The building

Municipal institutions

Under the Old Mode

The first Parisian Municipalité is made up towards 1260, when Saint Louis grants the provost and Juré S of powerful the Corporation of the merchants of water the right to manage part of the city. This association then holds the monopoly of navigation on the the Seine, the Oise, the Marne and the Yonne, regulates the traffic of the river and fixes the taxes to be perceived. Up to now, the city was managed by the representative of the king: Count, Viscount, then provost of Paris. It is with the latter that the provost of the merchants and his alderman S will have to compose for the good administration of the capital during the centuries which will follow.

Elected by the Middle-class, the provost of the merchants will take an ascending considerable policy. The role which Etienne Marcel during the regency of the dolphin holds, the future Charles V, pushes the royal capacity to cut down the provostal prerogatives, including by removing the load of provost of the merchants of 1382 with 1388.

Restored with the profit of Jean Juvénal of Ursins, faithful partisans of the kings Charles VI, then Charles VII, the function of " provost of the marchands" will be nothing any more from now on but honorary, since the candidate designated by the sovereign will be invested by the voters.

The day before the French revolution, the municipality comprises:

a provost of the merchants (at this date Jacques de Flesselles, named the April 21st 1789);
four aldermen;
thirty-six advisers;
sixteen Quaternier S.

The May 27th 1789, the voters of the three orders of the city require to sit at the town hall and to take part in the management of the city, which Jacques de Flesselles refuses as illegal, being supported by the ministry of Jacques Necker. The June 25th 1789, this proposal is renewed and, under the public pressure, Jacques de Flesselles admits twelve of these voters to be joined the municipality in place: the common of Paris was born. The first session of this “general meeting” takes place the July 13rd 1789 and Jacques de Flesselles is elected by it president. The following day, July 14th, the rioters not having found the weapons which they had come to claim with the town hall, show Flesselles of collusion with the royal capacity. This one is massacred by the crowd, which decapitates it and walks her head at the end of a spade in the streets of the capital.

Mayors of Paris

Municipal elections

The municipal elections proceed by district. Each district elects its advisers of district (517 on the whole), of which a part becomes then advisers of Paris. The councils of district elect the mayors of district one week after the poll.

The the Council of Paris having simultaneously attributions of a Municipal council (which manages the commune) and of a General advice (which manages the department), it does not have there a cantons, and not of cantonal elections in Paris.

However, with statistical aims, in particular in the nomenclatures of INSEE describing the administrative cutting of the France, the districts of Paris are often regarded as cantons.

Many advisers elected by district:

Legislative elections

Public integrity - businesses of the Town hall of Paris

Business of the fictional jobs of the town hall of Paris
Business of the HLM of Paris
Business of the SEMPAP (SEMPAP)

Intercommunality

With the difference of the majority of the principal urban areas of France such as Lille and Lyon, or other large capitals in the World, there exists any inter-commune entity managing the urban area of Paris, no inter-commune council not dealing with the problems of the dense urban core of the area as a whole. Dichotomy operated between the town of Paris, on surface and the particularly restricted demographic weights, and its suburbs, and the rejection of long time in periphery of the activities and not very desirable populations in downtown area became indeed a true contemporary problem, and is regarded as being for much one of principal causes of a social unrest such as the riots of 2005 in the suburbs.

A direct resultant of these events was proposals so that a more effective metropolitan structure recovering the town of Paris and some of its suburbs is finally implemented, on the basis of a socialist idea of a “metropolitan conference” or with the right-wing idea of “Large Paris” more integrated.

Twinning and partnerships

Paris is twinned with only one city: Rome, since 1956. “Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris” “Solo Parigi E degna di Roma; solo Roma E degna di Parigi”

The French capital also signed pacts of friendship and co-operation with other big cities of the world:

1958 : Kyōto
1982 : Tōkyō
1985 : Cairo
1987: Amman, Sanaa, Berlin
1991: Seoul
1992: Moscow, Beirut
1995: Jakarta
1996: Chicago, San Francisco
1997: Santiago of Chile, Riyadh, Beijing, Prague, Tbilissi, Saint-Pétersbourg
1998: Lisbon, Sofia, Sydney, Erevan
1999: Mexico City, Warsaw, Buenos Aires
2000: Washington, Madrid, Athens
2001: London, Porto Alegre
2002: Geneva
2003: Algiers, Quebec (city)
2004: São Paulo, Reduction, Casablanca, Tunis
2005: Copenhagen
2006: Montreal
2007: Tangier

To deepen

Internal bonds

List of the mayors of Paris • List of the presidents of the municipal council of Paris • Mayors of the districts of Paris
Municipal elections of 2008 in Paris
Place of Strike
Common List of the streets of Paris
of Paris (1871)
Districts of Paris
Companies of mixed economy of Paris

External bonds

All information on Paris
Official site

Notes, sources and references

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