Assemblée nationale (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Assemblée Nationale
Metro de Paris - Ligne 12 - Assemblee Nationale 09.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 12Paris Metro 12.svg
place Paris VII
opening November 5, 1910
Assemblée Nationale station with the MF 67 train leaving for Porte de la Chapelle , 2005
Opposite direction with the MF-67 train leaving for Mairie d'Issy , 2008
The station in 2016
North-South style access

Assemblée Nationale is an underground station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro .

location

The metro station is located in the Invalides district of the 7th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under the Boulevard Saint-Germain between the Rue de Lille and the Rue de l'Université.

Surname

The station is named after the French National Assembly (fr: Assemblée nationale), which has its seat in the nearby Palais Bourbon . Until June 30, 1989, the station was called "Chambre des Députés" (House of Representatives), although since 1946 the official name of the lower house has been "Assemblée nationale".

History and description

Line 12 was built as Line A by the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) and operated by it until 1930. With the opening of the first section from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Porte de Versailles , the Chambre des Députés station went into operation on November 5, 1910.

Under an elliptical vault there are two side platforms on two main tracks. In contrast to the stations built by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP), the side walls do not follow the curvature of the ellipse, but run vertically in the lower area. Typically for the underground stations in the north-south, the station was built a little more splendid than the stations of the CMP, but it looks different today. The side walls were first artistically designed on political issues in 1990 and have since been changed several times.

Because of the overhead line initially present on the north-south routes , the underground station is slightly higher than the CMP stations located under similar vaults. It has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, which is sufficient for five-car trains.

The three entrances have the original decor of the north-south, but the lettering NORD-SUD was replaced by METROPOLITAIN in the early 1930s.

vehicles

On line 12, trains of the north-south type Sprague-Thomson ran initially , which differed in several points from the Sprague-Thomson vehicles of the CMP. A striking feature was the power supply of the leading railcar by means of a pantograph . After the takeover of Nord-Sud by CMP, this type of business was given up in the 1930s. In the 1970s, the north-south trains were eliminated in favor of the Sprague-Thomson standard design, and in 1977 modern trains of the MF 67 series came onto the line.

Surroundings

Web links

Commons : Assemblée nationale (Paris Metro)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 57 .
  2. ↑ Jean-Joseph Julaud: L'Histoire de France pour les Nuls . 2nd Edition. Éditions First, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-7540-5432-4 , pp. 681 .
  3. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 2nd Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 294 .
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 295.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 38 ″  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 16 ″  E