Valéry Giscard d’Estaing will have a quay in his name, in front of the Musée d’Orsay

The Council of Paris renamed, Tuesday, March 14, the quai de Seine along the Musée d’Orsay in “quai Valéry-Giscard-d’Estaing”. The former President of the Republic, who died in 2020 at the age of 94, had transformed this former station into a museum of 19th century arts. Part of the quai Anatole-France and the place Henry-de-Montherlant, in the 7th arrondissement, will soon bear the name of the man who, head of state between 1974 and 1981, will have “enabled Europe to gain confidence in itself and in its destiny”greeted the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.

“Paris owes him a lot”added the socialist councilor, recalling that the centrist president had “put an end to a democratic anomaly for a century” by allowing Parisians “to elect their mayor by universal suffrage from 1977”.

In addition to the creation of the Musée d’Orsay, “temple of impressionism”Anne Hidalgo recalled that the former tenant of the Elysée was at the initiative of the city of Sciences and Industry, the Parc de la Villette which surrounds it and the Institute of the Arab world.