Place Monge (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svgPlace Monge
Jardin des Plantes - Arènes de Lutèce
Metro de Paris - Ligne 7 - Place Monge 03.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 07Paris Metro 7.svg
place Paris V
opening February 15, 1930
Access structure on Rue de Navarre
Station sign made of tiles
Branch of the operating track (left) to the Maubert - Mutualité station on line 10

The metro station Place Monge is a station on the Line 7 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located lengthways below Rue Monge between Rue de Navarre and Place Monge on the border of the Quartier Saint-Victor and the Quartier du Jardin des Plantes in the 5th arrondissement of Paris .

Surname

It is named after the Place Monge. The mathematician Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) supported the French Revolution , became Minister of the Navy in 1793 and was one of the founders of the École polytechnique in 1794 .

History and description

The station 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, which had meanwhile been extended to Porte de Choisy , and thus the Place Monge 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.

There is a simple track change to the north of the station. Behind it, an operating track branches off from the western main track into the tunnel to the Maubert - Mutualité station, this track was used by the trains on Line 10 in 1930/31.

There are two entrances from Place Monge, the south of which is equipped with an escalator. The north entrance has an illuminated station sign with a network map and is marked with a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO. A brick entrance building is on Rue de Navarre.

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

The Jardin des Plantes botanical garden is in the immediate vicinity of the station .

Web links

Commons : Place Monge (Paris Metro)  - 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. 166 .
  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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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 34 ″  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 8 ″  E