Charonne (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Charonne
Charonne (metro Paris) vers Montreuil par Cramos.JPG
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 09Paris Metro 9.svg
place Paris XI
opening December 10, 1933

The subway station Charonne is a station on the line 9 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier de la Roquette with the Quartier Sainte-Marguerite in the 11th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard Voltaire at its intersection with the Rue de Charonne.

Surname

It is named after the Rue de Charonne. It led to the village of Charonne, which was incorporated into Paris in 1860, which was previously in the commune of Saint-Denis and now belongs to the 20th arrondissement as Quartier de Charonne .

History and description

The station went into operation on December 10, 1933 when line 9 was extended by 6430 m from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Montreuil . It has two side platforms on two main tracks and was built with a length of 105 m. The cross-section is elliptical , the ceiling and walls are tiled in white. The side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse.

The two entrances are on Boulevard Voltaire south of Rue de Charonne. They are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style . There is also another exit with an escalator.

vehicles

Line 9 is operated with conventional vehicles that run on steel rails. Initially, trains of the Sprague-Thomson type , which were last used there, ran. In 1983 the MF 67 series was launched . The MF 01 series has been increasingly used since October 2013, and the last MF 67 train ran on line 9 on December 14, 2016.

Massacre in the Charonne metro station

Memorial plaque to the massacre in the metro station

On February 8, 1962, unions, the Parti communiste français and other left-wing organizations organized a demonstration against the actions of the Organization de l'armée secrète (OAS) and against the Algerian war . The demonstration was banned by the police. Maurice Papon , then Police Prefect of Paris, had given the order, with the consent of Interior Minister Roger Frey and President Charles de Gaulle , to prevent and break up the demonstration. The demonstration consisted of several marching groups that were supposed to meet at the Place de la Bastille . Some dissolve peacefully before this goal, others were attacked by the police.

About 4,000 people were at the intersection of Rue de Charonne and Boulevard Voltaire when the police tried to force them apart, but at the same time partially surrounded them. Some of the crowd fled to the Charonne metro station. Several people fell on the front steps and were crushed by the crowd, while others were hit by metal bars thrown by the police. There were eight dead and one seriously injured who later died in hospital.

A plaque commemorates the dead in the metro station. The intersection of Rue de Charonne and Boulevard Voltaire was renamed Place du 8 Février in 1962 in 2007.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The standard length of the stations opened before 1931 was 75 m
  2. ↑ The stations built by the Nord-Sud railway company, which competed until 1929, have vertical walls under elliptical ceilings
  3. ↑ On several lines of the Paris Métro trains run with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
  4. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

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

literature

  • Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
  • Jean-Paul Brunet: Charonne: lumières sur une tragédie . Flammarion, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-08-068341-1 .
  • Alain Dewerpe: Charonne, 8 février 1962: anthropologie historique d'un massacre d'Etat . Gallimard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-07-030770-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 78 .
  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. 259 .
  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. 260.
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