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The districts of Paris are an administrative division which divides the common Paris (France) in twenty municipal districts.

These districts were created in 1860 after a new enlarging of Paris carried out by Napoleon III and Haussmann.

These municipal districts should not be confused with the departmental districts, which are another type of administrative subdivision on a scale department. In France, the communes of Lyon and Marseilles are also subdivided in municipal districts.

Description

In 1860, the numbers of districts were initially allotted from left to right and from top to bottom on the chart, but this diagram was abandoned because it resulted in allotting number 13 to current the 16 {{E}} district. However this number was perceived like pejorative because the expression “to marry with the town hall of the 13th district” (i.e., before 1860, in a district which does not exist) meant “food in cohabitation”, therefore out of good conventions, which was not appropriate for certain influential inhabitants of the west of Paris. A new method consisted in numbering according to a Spirale on the basis of the center of Paris, number 13 from now on being allotted to the more popular districts of the south-east of Paris.

Each district is managed by a council of district, with operation similar to a municipal council but is equipped with less capacities.

(A) total of districts 1,2,3 and 4: 102.300 inhabitants for a density of 18.301 (INSEE does not give the detail)

History

Before 1860

See also: Old districts of Paris

Paris was divided for the first time into 12 districts on October 11th, 1795. This division persisted until 1860, date on which the annexation of the suburbs of Paris involved the recutting of the districts.

There existed nine districts on the Right Bank of the the Seine and three on the left bank, numbered more or less by order ascending of west in is and north in the south. Their sizes were very diverse and their forms definitely less regular than those of the current districts.

After 1860

January 1st, 1860, pursuant to the law of June 16th, 1859, the suburbs of Paris located beyond old the Mur of the Farmers general were annexed, which led to the complete recutting of the districts. Twenty districts were created, on completely new limits, and numbering in spiral was instituted.

The following communes were annexed (between bracket, the number of the district and possible communes having recovered the territory):

  • Entirely absorptive by Paris:
    • Belleville (19 {{E}} and 20 {{E}})
    • Grenelle (15 {{E}})
    • Vaugirard (15 {{E}})
    • the Villette (19 {{E}})

  • Divided between Paris and other communes:

    • Auteuil (16 {{E}} and Boulogne)
    • the Batignolles-Heap (17 {{E}} and Clichy)
    • Bercy (12 {{E}} and Charenton)
    • the Vault-Saint-Denis (the Seine) (18 {{E}}, Aubervilliers, Saint-Denis and Saint-Ouen)
    • Charonne (20 {{E}}, Bagnolet and Montreuil)
    • Montmartre (18 {{E}} and Saint-Ouen)
    • Passy (16 {{E}} and Boulogne)

Districts

See also: District of Paris

Each district is subdivided administratively in four districts, which correspond in general to the north-western quarters, north-eastern, south-western and south-east of the district.

See too

Postcards of the districts of Paris, illustrated by J.P.Pinchon (draftsman of Snipe), and published in 1945 by Blondel Rougery

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