The two rebellious Parisians are back!
After successfully launching a counter-consultation on urban aesthetics while the City of Paris put theirs online, Quentin and Cannelle, who want to keep their anonymity, decided to challenge the town hall on the maintenance of heritage historic urban area of the capital.
While the auction, this Tuesday in Drouot, of the old gates of the hotel de Lauzun, which the Paris town hall was undone in 2018, raises a storm wind fueled by the SaccageParis movement on Twitter, the two Thirty-year-olds jumped at the opportunity to mount an operation intended, once again, to shake up the city.
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New street furniture deemed less aesthetic
They launched a kitty, with another Internet user very active in SaccageParis, to buy an old Davioud bench, named after the architect commissioned by Baron Haussmann to design Parisian street furniture in the 19th century.
Objective: to encourage the town hall to repair this historic street furniture rather than testing new seats and benches that they consider less aesthetic.
"Parisians, Parisians, lovers of Paris, you can no longer bear to see historic street furniture disappear and be replaced by furniture unworthy of our City of Light?
», Asks Quentin on the crowdfunding site Le Pot commun.
"It was initially on the tone of a joke", admits Baptiste.
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But while the controversy continues on Twitter on the urban developments of the capital accused of deteriorating the image of it, the joke of Baptiste and Cannelle has managed to unite nearly 200 Parisians who have put their hands in the wallet .
Amount of the pot already gathered to hope to leave with the bench?
Lips are sealed.
"We do not want to give clues to other potential buyers," slips Baptiste.
"If we succeed in buying it back, we will obviously return it to the City whose property it is"
If they win the lot, these lovers of Paris have a little idea on the destination of the bench.
"We could perhaps organize a vote to ask their opinion of the participants", already likes to imagine Quentin.
"If we succeed in buying it back, we will obviously return it to the City of which it is the property", nevertheless specifies this inhabitant of the Sentier (IIe).
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The auctioneer, Me Christophe Lucien, so enthusiastic about the initiative of these "lovers of Paris", decided to make his own contribution by not taking fees on this auction. “The current street furniture takes such a low-end turn… Obviously today many people are rising up, approves the professional. This collective seeks nothing less than to understand and underline the quality of street furniture from before! "