Mairie 10th Arrondissement (Paris)
The Mairie of the 10th arrondissement is the mayor's office of the 10th district of Paris . The building is bordered on all four sides by streets: Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin , Rue du Château-d'Eau , Rue Pierre Bullet and Rue Hittorf . The entrance is at 72 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin . The nearest metro stations are Château d'Eau and Jacques Bonsergent on lines 4 and 5 .
history
After several suburbs were incorporated into Paris in 1860, the arrondissements were redistributed and the 10th arrondissement was created within its current boundaries. The Mairie was housed in the former Caserne de la Garde municipale , in the same place where today's Mairie was built from 1892 to 1896 .
In 1889, Eugène Rouyer won the architectural competition to build the new Mairie . The building was erected according to his plans from the beginning of 1892 and inaugurated on February 28, 1896 in the presence of the French President Félix Faure . The 10th arrondissement mairie was the most expensive of all 20 mairies in Paris.
architecture
Outside
The Mairie stands on a basement made of bosses ashlars , which houses a police station, a kindergarten and a court. These can be reached from outside through their own entrances. The main entrance is a large flight of stairs on the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin. Five tall glazed entrance doors open to a porch. Its wrought iron grids are adorned with the letter P for Paris and the agraffes of the portal arches are provided with mascarons . The names of the four quarters of the 10th arrondissement are inscribed on the ornate fields between the arches : Saint-Vincent-de-Paul , Porte Saint-Denis , Porte Saint-Martin and Hôpital Saint-Louis . Above this are high lattice windows provided by fluted half- columns with Corinthian be separated capitals. The inscription Salle des Mariages is on the facade, behind which the wedding hall is located . The construction phases are also immortalized on the facade with the years 1893–1894, 1895 and 1896. A clock is mounted in the middle above the upper storey and above it sits an octagonal roof turret with an elongated tip.
In 1906, sculptures of women were placed on the other three sides of the façade, representing the main industries in the arrondissement. Les Parfums (perfumery) by Eugène Ernest Chrestien, Le Théâtre (theater) by Gaston Veuvenot Leroux, La Passementerie ( trimmings ) by Henri Barrau, La Verrerie (glassmaking) by Louis Demaille, La Broderie ( embroidery ) by Emmanuel de Moncel de Perrin, La Céramique ( ceramics ) by François-Raoul Larche, L'Orfèvrerie (jewelry) by Jean Carlus and Les Fleurs artificielles ( artificial flowers ) by Julien Causse.
Along the entire rear facade on Rue Pierre Bullet , behind which the Salle des Fêtes (ballroom) is located, pilasters and columns alternate between the high windows.
Inside
The imposing entrance hall is built in the form of an atrium . It is illuminated by a skylight in the ceiling. Opposite the entrance is the monumental staircase of honor that leads to the banqueting hall and the wedding hall on the second floor. Halfway up the staircase divides into a right and left wing.
The ballroom is decorated with ten paintings by various painters. The ceremony hall has the relief La Fraternité des Peuples (The Brotherhood of Nations) by Jules Dalou on one front and the painting La Famille (The Family) by Henri Martin on the opposite wall .
Atrium with grand staircase
Floor mosaic on the landing
Entrance hall skylight
Relief in the wedding hall
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literature
- Marc Gaillard: Mairie du Xème . Ed. from the Mairie du 10ème (no year)
- Jean Colson / Marie-Christine Lauroa (eds.): Dictionnaire des monuments de Paris . Éditions Hervas, Paris 2003 (1st edition 1992), ISBN 2-84334-001-2 .
- Laure Beaumont-Mallet: Vie et histoire du Xe arrondissement , Éditions Hervas, Paris 1991 (1st edition 1988), ISBN 2-903118-35-3 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 18 " N , 2 ° 21 ′ 28" E