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PUBLIC POOLS:
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Name	Address	Arrdt.	Telephone	Métro	Facilities	Comments
Saint-Merri	16, rue du Renard	4	01 42 76 78 01 01 42 72 29 45	Hôtel-de-Ville	25x10m	Centrally located accross from Beaubourg, 4 lanes only - tiny, clean, friendly, solarium in the summer. Evenings: Thu. 16:30-21.
Jean-Taris	16, rue Thouin	5	01 42 76 78 02 01 43 25 54 03	Cardinal Lemoine	25x15m 15x6m	A view on the beautiful gardens of the college Henri IV and the Pantheon. Evenings: Fri. 17-20:30.
Saint-Germain	12, rue Lobineau	6	01 42 76 78 03 01 43 29 08 15	Mabillon	25x12,50m	Underneath the Saint-Germain market and above the underground parking, this pool has a social standing in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-prés. Swimmers are now required to use swim caps. Evenings: Tue. 17-20.
Georges-Drigny	18, rue Bochart de Saron	9	01 42 76 78 04 01 45 26 86 93	Anvers	25x15m	Underground. Evenings: Wed. 18-21.
Valeyre	24, rue de Rochechouart	9	01 42 76 78 05 01 42 85 27 61	Cadet	25x12,50m	3 floors underground in a sports center - claustrophibic, yet has swimming lanes; the water is clean, the showers less so...
Château-Landon	31, rue de Château-Landon	10	01 55 26 90 35 01 46 07 34 68	Louis-Blanc/ Stalingrad	25x10m 10x6m	Historic building. Open Mon.11:30-13/18:30-21.
Cours-des-Lions	11, rue Alphonse-Baudin	11	01 42 76 78 07 01 43 55 09 23	Richard-Lenoir/Saint-Sébastien-Froissart	25x15m	A family pool near the Bastille. Evenings: Tue.17-20.
Georges-Rigal	115, boulevard de Charonne	11	01 42 76 78 08 01 44 93 28 18	Alexandre-Dumas	25x12,50m 12,50x6m
Reuilly	13, rue Hénard	12	01 42 76 78 09 01 40 02 08 08	Montgallet/ Dugommier	25x15m 16x6m	Solarium, open Mon.11:30-13/Evenings: Thu.16:30-22.
Buttes-aux-Cailles	5, place Paul-Verlaine	13	01 42 76 78 10 01 45 89 60 05	Place d'Italie	33x12m Open-air: 25x12,5m 12x6 m	Once upon the time filled with water from an artesian well, still a remarkable monument of 1900 piscines.
Château-des-Rentiers	184, rue du Château-des-Rentier	13	01 42 76 78 11 01 45 85 18 26	Nationale	25x12,5m
Dunois	70, rue Dunois	13	01 42 76 78 12 01 45 85 44 81	Chevaleret	25x12,50m	Lost amongst the towers of Chinatown (13th arrondissement), a small, but necessary pool.
Aspirant-Dunand	20, rue Saillard	14	01 42 76 78 13 01 45 45 50 37	Mouton-Duvernet	25x12,50m	Sunk underneath the small park by the same name is the quaintest pool, windows on one side letting in natural light. Swimming lanes; lockers.
Didot	22, avenue Georges-Lafenestre	14	01 42 76 78 14 01 45 39 89 29	Porte-de-Vanves	25x12,50m	In the south of Paris, five lanes, colorful lay out, but no party.
Armand-Massart	66, rue du Montparnasse	15	01 42 76 78 15 01 45 38 65 19	Montparnasse-Bienvenue	33 x15m 25x12,5m 12,5x 6m	The strangest pool underneath the Montparnasse tower, cold 60s architecture and quite filthy. Yet it is a pool: take 1 € for the lockers which you'll get back.
Blomet	17, rue Blomet	15	01 42 76 78 16 01 47 83 35 05	Volontaires Sèvres-Lecourbe	50x12m	The psycho-ward of pools; unkept and crowded.
Emile-Anthoine	9, rue Jean-Rey	15	01 42 76 78 18 01 53 69 61 59	Bir-Hakeim	25x12,50m 12,5 x6 m	Great view of Eiffel tower from the glass encased pool; solarium.
Robert Keller	14, rue Robert Keller	15	01 45 77 12 12	Charles-Michel	50m pool 12,5x6m kiddy basin	Taken over by the Ville de Paris, this olympic pool has a sliding roof and swimming lanes - and is now open to the public, thanks to the intervention of the new administration. It still needs renovation, but has clean water and is worth a great long swim. Open: Mon 12-22:30; Tue 12-21; Wed 8-21; Thu/Fri 12-20; Sat/Sun 8-19
La Plaine	13, rue du Général-Guillaumat	15	01 42 76 78 17 01 45 32 34 00	Portes-de-Versailles Porte-de- Vanves	25x12,50m
René-et-André-Mourlon	19, rue Gaston-de-Caillavet	15	01 42 76 78 19 01 45 75 40 02	Charles-Michel Dupleix Bir-Hakeim	25x12,50m
Auteuil	Bois de Boulogne, route des Lacs-à-Passy Allées des Fortifications	16	01 42 76 78 20 01 42 24 07 59	Ranelagh	25x15m 15x 6,50m	Inside the Longchamps racecourse, a spectacular location, but often crowded.
Henry-de-Montherlant	32, boulevard Lannes	16	01 40 72 28 32 01 40 72 28 30	Porte-Dauphine Rue-de-la-Pompe	25x15m 15x6m	A pleasant pool with solarium in the summer. The water too warm, swimcap mandatory, no shorts allowed.
Bernard-Lafay	79, rue de La Jonquière	17	01 42 76 78 22 01 42 26 11 05	Porte-de-Clichy	25x12,50 m 12,50x6 m
Des Amiraux	6, rue Hermann-Lachapelle	18	01 42 76 78 25 01 46 06 46 47	Simplon Marcadet-Poisonnières	33x10m
Bertrand-Dauvin	12, rue René-Binet	18	01 42 76 78 23 01 44 92 73 40	Porte-de-Clignancourt	25x12,50m 12,50x6 m
Hébert	2, rue des Fillettes	18	01 42 76 78 24 01 46 07 60 01	Marx-Dormoy	25x11,75m 12 x11,75m
Mathis	11-17, rue Mathis	19	01 42 76 78 26 01 40 34 51 00	Crimée	25x12,50m 12, 50 x6m
Rouvet	1, rue Rouvet	19	01 42 76 78 27 01 40 36 40 97	Correntin-Cariou	33x12m	One of oldest pools facing the canal Saint Martin; rebuilt in 1987, two floor of balconies overlooking the basin with 60 cabins each.

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