Cadet (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Cadet
Métro de Paris - Ligne 7 - Cadet 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 07Paris Metro 7.svg
place Paris IX
opening November 5, 1910
Art nouveau style entrance designed by Hector Guimard

The Metro Station Cadet is an underground station of Line 7 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier du Faubourg Montmartre in the 9th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways below the Rue La Fayette at the point where it joins the Rue Bleue.

Surname

It is named after the Rue Cadet, which crosses Rue La Fayette. Their name origin is not clearly established. Cadet de Gassicourt is the last name of a family who u. a. the chemists and pharmacists Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731-1799) and Charles Louis Cadet de Gassicourt (1769-1821) came from.

It is also possible that the brothers Jacques et Jean Cadet, who cultivated vegetables there in the 16th century and supplied Parisian restaurants with their products.

history

On November 5, 1910, when the section from Opéra to Porte de la Villette of line 7 went into operation, the underground station was opened.

description

Under an elliptical, white-tiled vaulted ceiling with curved walls, the station has side platforms on two parallel tracks. It has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m.

The only access is on the crossing Rue Cadet, it has the Art Nouveau decor designed by Hector Guimard .

vehicles

Conventional five-car trains of the MF 77 series run on Line 7 . Between 1971 and 1979 trains of the MF 67 series ran there , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type .

Web links

Commons : Cadet (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . Éditions Bonneton, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 70 .
  2. ^ 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. 222 f .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 227 and 245.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 33 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 36"  E