Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette (Métro Paris)
 Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette
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| place | Paris IX |
| opening | November 5, 1910 |
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Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 7 and 9 .
location
The metro station is located in the Quartier de la Chaussée-d'Antin in the 9th arrondissement of Paris . The station of line 7 is located lengthways under the Rue La Fayette north of the Boulevard Haussmann , that of the line 9 lengthways under the Boulevard Haussmann east of the junction with the Rue La Fayette.
Surname
It is named after the Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin , which crosses the Boulevard Haussmann, and the rue La Fayette that joins it. The Chaussée d'Antin leading to Clichy was laid out on a dam in the swampy terrain. On it was the house of the Duke of Antin, Louis-Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin , who gave the Chaussée its name in 1712.
Rue La Fayette is named after Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834). The general took part in the American Revolutionary War on the side of the colonists , and during the French Revolution tried to mediate between the revolutionaries and the king. The political club of the Feuillants founded by him strove for a constitutional monarchy based on the English model.
history
The line 7 station went into operation on November 5, 1910, when the first section from Opéra to Porte de la Villette opened. At first the station was only called "Chaussée d'Antin".
On June 3, 1923, line 9 from Saint-Augustin was extended by two stations. From then until June 30, 1928, Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette was its eastern end point.
description
Both stations are under elliptical vaulted ceilings, they have curved, white tiled side walls. There are side platforms on each of two main tracks, and the stations are each 75 m long.
At the intersection of Boulevard Haussmann and Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, line 7 crosses line 9 in an arc. Shortly before that, an operating track branches off to the right to line 3 , and an easy one is located northeast of the line 7 station Change of track .
There are five entrances on Boulevard Haussmann and one on Rue La Fayette, except for one they are marked by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the style of Art Deco .
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 .
Initially, Sprague-Thomson-type trains, which were last used there, also ran on line 9. 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.
Surroundings
The main store of the Galeries Lafayette department store chain is in the immediate vicinity .
Remarks
- ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983.
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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. 232 .
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 81 f .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 222 f.
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 258.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 227 and 245.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 260.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Le Peletier ← La Courneuve - May 8, 1945 |
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Opéra Mairie d'Ivry or Villejuif - Louis Aragon → |
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Havre - Caumartin ← Pont de Sèvres |
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Richelieu - Drouot Mairie de Montreuil → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 23 ″ N , 2 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E