Edgar Quinet (Métro Paris)
 Edgar Quinet
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| place | Paris XIV |
| opening | April 24, 1906 |
The Metro Station Edgar Quinet is an underground station of line 6 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located in the Quartier du Montparnasse in the 14th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under the Boulevard Edgar Quinet, east of its intersection with the Rue du Montparnasse - Rue de la Gaité.
Surname
It is named after the Boulevard Edgar Quinet. The historian and writer Edgar Quinet (1803-1875) was in 1848 deputy directed and 1851 in the country. He spent the next twenty years in exile . His grave is in the nearby Cimetière Montparnasse cemetery .
History and description
The station was opened on April 24, 1906, when the extension of the then line 2 Sud from Passy to Place d'Italie went into operation. On October 14, 1907, the previously independent line 2 Sud was given up and moved to the southwestern end of line 5 ( Étoile - Gare du Nord ). On October 6, 1942, the route was changed again, so that line 6 has been running at the station since then. This was converted in July 1974 for traffic with pneumatic trains .
The cross-section of the 75 m long station describes an ellipse , the curvature of which is followed by the white tiled side walls. The height at the apex of the vaulted ceiling is 5 m above the top of the rails, the side platforms are 4 m wide.
The only access is in the median of Boulevard Edgar Quinet on the above. Crossing. It is marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO.
vehicles
Today's line 6 was used by Sprague-Thomson trains from around 1910 . The MP 73 series has been operating there since the switch to rubber-tired vehicles .
Surroundings
In the immediate vicinity is the Cimetière Montparnasse cemetery , where Guy de Maupassant , Simone de Beauvoir and Serge Gainsbourg , among others , were buried.
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 96 f .
- ^ 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. 210 .
- ^ 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. 43.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 219 f.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Montparnasse - Bienvenüe ← Charles de Gaulle - Étoile |
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Raspail Nation → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 26 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 37" E