• Several widely relayed tweets accuse the Paris town hall of getting rid of its iconic lampposts in a storage space in Saint-Cloud.

  • These, stored in a space belonging to the Derichebourg company, do not belong to the town hall of Paris, nor to that of Saint-Cloud.

  • They are also not abandoned, but are only being repaired.

Would the town hall of Paris want to get rid of its legendary Haussmann-style lampposts?

This is in any case what accuses him of several publications widely relayed on Twitter in recent days.

One of them, published by the @Paris_propre account, indicates, photo in support, that these Parisian candelabras would be abandoned in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), just "above the motorway ".

We found the lampposts !!

In Saint-Cloud above the highway!

If you want to act for Paris, this is the opportunity!

@CNEWS @UnionParisienne @JCQDSE @ParisHistoire @SOSParis @PARISMARAIS @RoulerLibreFR pic.twitter.com/ne6VEieUS1

- Clean Paris (@Paris__propre) May 31, 2021

In a second publication, the same account explains that the municipality would like to get rid of “unnecessary [urban] furniture” in the capital.

A formula repeated in another tweet, which indicates this time that the lampposts in question would be "considered too dilapidated by the town hall of Paris".

After the benches, These fabulous lampposts which made the charm of the capital are considered too dilapidated by the town hall of Paris.


Too bourgeois, too kitsch or too old France, the mayor does not appreciate the emblem of a too distinguished Paris;

make way for appalling modernity ... pic.twitter.com/4yzPnkcbNt

- Sylvain Clama (@sylvainclama) June 17, 2021

Some of the viral publications contain the hashtag #saccageParis, used mainly by opponents of Anne Hidalgo to denounce the socialist mayor's choices in terms of development and town planning.

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the mayor of Paris quickly indicated that these Haussmann-style candelabra were not theirs, and that it was wrong to think "that the municipality had the objective of getting rid of these lampposts".

Paris is not the only city in France to have street furniture of this type. It is quite common to find them in the nearby suburbs, or in other large French cities. Could the streetlights therefore belong to the town hall of the city of Saint-Cloud, where they are stored? The mayor's office is categorical, “these lampposts are not the property of the city”.

A search on Google Maps allowed us to find the storage location.

The latter is actually located above the A13, wedged between a departmental and the two ramps of the Normandy motorway.

Once there, we discover about twenty feet of lampposts stored behind a grid, in the middle of various street furniture (fences, posts, signs…).

A sign indicates that the space belongs to the company Derichebourg and its subsidiary Energie EP.

The communication service of Derichebourg Multiservices, joined by 

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explained “that these candelabra bases were not abandoned, but only under repair”, contrary to what the publications visible above had stated.

At the time of publication of the article, Derichebourg was unable to tell us where the lampposts came from, but the group says they are from a nearby suburban town.

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