Biography d’Anne Hidalgo, politician
Anne Hidalgo, born Ana María Hidalgo Aleu on June 19, 1959, in San Fernando, Spain, is a French politician. She moved to France in 1961 and obtained French citizenship in 1973. Trained as a labor inspector, she joined the Socialist Party in 1994 and began her political career alongside Martine Aubry. She served as the first deputy mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014 and became the first female mayor of Paris in 2014, being re-elected in 2020. Her tenure as mayor has been marked by initiatives in favor of ecology and urban transformation, including reducing the role of cars in Paris.
One’s credibility is measured by the fidelity to one’s ideas.
A poem-chair
“I adopted the chair, this familiar object, a few decades ago, at a time when I wanted to create art on a human scale in public spaces, while everywhere else people opted for the monumental: it is an object shaped like the body and serves the body. It is difficult to feel exclusive ownership of an object so universally shareable. It is mine when I occupy it, but if I leave it, someone else can claim it as their chair.” Michel Goulet, artist-sculptor
The project Prendre position
Prendre position is a sculpture-installation project of 47 chair-poems to mark the 100th anniversary of the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. They were installed in a flowered meadow created especially for the occasion by the campus estate service.
This artistic installation was conceived by the Quebecois artist-sculptor Michel Goulet, in collaboration with François Massut, founding director of the collective Poésie is not dead.
Each house on the campus is represented by a chair, thanks to a donation from the Maison des étudiants canadiens and the support of the Labrenne group. Each of the 47 chairs is a unique work.
History and architecture of the house
Named Julie-Victoire Daubié, in honor of the first female baccalaureate graduate in France in 1861, this residence was financed by the City of Paris in partnership with the Île-de-France Region. The building is owned by the Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris. Its construction is part of the “Cité 2025” development plan.
