Censier - Daubenton (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Censier - Daubenton
Metro de Paris - Ligne 7 - Censier - Daubenton 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 07Paris Metro 7.svg
place Paris V
opening February 15, 1930
MF 77 series train arriving from the south

The underground station Censier - Daubenton is an underground station of Line 7 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier du Jardin des Plantes in the 5th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue Monge at the point where the Rue Daubenton joins.

Surname

The name gives the Rue Daubenton and the Rue Censier, which also goes off there. The natural scientist Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716–1799) was co-author of the work Histoire naturelle générale et particulière and first director of the natural history museum Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

The name Censier is probably due to "sans tête". Rue sans tête (headless street) is a dead end street .

Until August 1965 the station was called "Censier - Daubenton - Halles aux cuirs". The Halles aux cuirs (Leather halls) were in the 19th century for the on the banks of the river Bièvre local tanners built were of those but hardly accepted. In 1880 they were used as a depot for a steam tram and later as a food store. In 1906 the halls burned down.

History and description

The station, located in a slight curve, was put into operation on February 15, 1930. Since the crossing under the Seine for line 7 was not yet completed, line 10 was temporarily extended from Odéon to Place d'Italie on the route built for this using an operating line . On April 26, 1931, its southern section, and with it the Censier - Daubenton station, was then assigned to line 7 brought up from Sully - Morland .

Under an elliptical , white-tiled ceiling vault, the station has side platforms on two parallel tracks. Already during construction it was laid out with the unusual length of 105 m, theoretically sufficient for seven-car trains. In April 2010, it was the first metro station in Paris to be illuminated with light-emitting diodes .

The two entrances are on both sides of the Rue Daubenton at the confluence with the Rue Monge. They are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO.

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 .

Surroundings

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in the Jardin des Plantes

Web links

Commons : Censier - Daubenton (Métro Paris)  - 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. 74 .
  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. 225 .
  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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