Journalists welcomed to the media village during the Olympic Games will walk streets named after female figures.
This place, which will be transformed into a residential area after the Olympics, is located in the town of Dugny, in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The town's mayor, Quentin Gesell (various right), announced it after a ceremony on March 8, International Women's Rights Day: the eight streets of the village will have "the names of local or national female personalities.
The opportunity to honor the crucial role of women in our society but also to increase the presence of female names in the public space.
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🇫🇷 Maryse Bastié, Eva Chastagnol, Odette Matynia, Nicole Girard-Mangin, Caroline Aigle, Gisèle Halimi, Mireille Knoll and Joséphine Baker.
On March 8, we revealed the 8 female names given to the 8 streets of the Media Village in #Dugny! #Paris2024 #8Mars pic.twitter.com/tCn0hUSwWB
— Quentin Gesell (@QuentinGesell) March 10, 2024
The town of 11,300 inhabitants will now house streets in the name of the lawyer Gisèle Halimi, the artist and resistance fighter Joséphine Baker or even Caroline Aigle, the first French woman to become a fighter pilot, in 1999. The town of Dugny has also chose to pay tribute to some of its local figures, such as Ève Chastagnol, centenarian who died in 2020.
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The selection was made through an online consultation last year.
The media village is expected to be inaugurated in March.
Of the 26,000 accredited journalists, 1,580 will live there, mainly technicians working at the Bourget press center.