Quatre-Septembre (Métro Paris)
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Tariff zone | 1 |
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place | Paris II |
opening | November 3, 1904 |
The Metro Station Quatre-Septembre is an underground station of line 3 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is on the border of Quartier Gaillon and Quartier Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue du Quatre-Septembre at the level of the crossing Rue de Choiseul.
Surname
It is named after the Rue du Quatre-Septembre (English: Street of September 4th). On September 4, 1870, Léon Gambetta proclaimed the Third French Republic , the second empire under Napoleon III. was finally history.
history
On October 19, 1904, the first section of line 3 between the Villiers and Père Lachaise stations was opened to traffic. The Quatre-Septembre station went into operation two weeks later, on November 3, 1904.
description
The station has side platforms under an elliptical vaulted ceiling on two parallel tracks, the curved walls are tiled in white. It has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m.
The only access is on Rue de Choiseul, it has the Art Nouveau décor designed by Hector Guimard .
vehicles
Line 3 was equipped with four-axle vehicles on bogies from the start . They were later replaced by Sprague-Thomson trains , which ran there until 1967. In that year, Line 3 was the first to receive the new MF 67 series , which runs classically on steel rails . These vehicles will still be in use there in 2020, and from 2028 they are to be replaced by trains of the MF 19 series.
Surroundings
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Richelieu-Louvois site)
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Les 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. 179 .
- ^ 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. 165 .
- ^ 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. 86.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 168.
- ↑ Jean-Gabriel Bontinck: Métro: ligne par ligne, découvrez quand les nouvelles arriveront rames. In: Le Parisien . April 11, 2019, accessed on June 7, 2020 (Fri-FR).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 11 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 11" E