Quai François-Mauriac, Riverfront promenade in 13th arrondissement, France
Quai François-Mauriac runs along the left bank of the Seine from the Pont de Tolbiac to Rue Raymond-Aron, where it becomes Quai de la Gare. Its paved promenade has a lower walkway at the water's edge, a band of dark cobble-like lines, and an upper level with young trees and rectangular planters. The Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand and the Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir stand nearby.
The quay was carved out of the older Quai de la Gare and given its own name on 18 August 1994, honouring the novelist and journalist François Mauriac (1885–1970), Nobel laureate in literature in 1952. It was restructured in the early 1990s as part of the Paris Rive Gauche development zone, which replaced factories and warehouses with the Tolbiac site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, built on the former Ivry water station.
The quay takes its name from a French novelist and reflects the literary heritage of this neighborhood. The National Library of France defines the riverfront with its presence, shaping how people experience culture and learning along the water.
The quay runs along the left bank of the Seine from the Pont de Tolbiac to Rue Raymond-Aron, where it continues as Quai de la Gare; the Port de la Gare is part of it. Metro Line 6 stops at Quai de la Gare station nearby. The promenade has a lower walkway at the water's edge and an upper level behind a low wall, with trees and planters along it.
At no. 63, at the north-east corner of the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, a Millénaire fountain was installed in 2000. The quay also holds the Joséphine-Baker swimming pool, and the Simone-de-Beauvoir footbridge crosses the Seine nearby. The site of the BnF Tolbiac building occupies what was the Ivry water station.
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