Richelieu - Drouot (Paris Métro)

Richelieu - Drouot
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris II , IX
opening	May 5, 1931

Station of line 8

Station of line 9

Memorial to the Métro employees who fell in the First World War

Access with an Art Deco candelabra

Richelieu - Drouot is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 8 and 9 .

location

The metro station is located on the border of Quartier Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement with the Quartier du Faubourg Montmartre in the 9th arrondissement of Paris . The station of line 8 is longitudinally below the Boulevard des Italiens , that of the line 9 longitudinally below the Boulevard Haussmann .

Surname

Name-giving are the Rue de Richelieu and the Rue Druot, the street of which crosses the Boulevard Montmartre at its western end. Armand-Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (1585–1642) was a cardinal and minister under Louis XIII. In 1635 he founded the Académie française .

Antoine Drouot (1774–1847) was general of the artillery and peer of France . He followed Napoleon Bonaparte in his first exile on the island of Elba .

history

The underground station went into operation on June 30, 1928. That day line 8 from Opéra was extended by 643 m to Richelieu - Drouot. On the same day, the extension of line 9 from Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette went into operation.

The station of line 8 was the northeast end point of the line until May 5, 1931, line 9 was extended beyond Richelieu - Drouot on December 10, 1933.

In 1931 a monument designed by Carlo Sarrabezolles was erected in the transfer hall of the subway station . It honors the 878 Métro employees who lost their lives in the First World War .

description

Both stations are located under elliptical, white-tiled ceiling vaults. They have curved side walls and side platforms on two main tracks. The station of line 9 still has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m. The station on Line 8 was extended to 105 m during construction and became the first station of this length in the Metro network.

Since line 9 ends immediately west of its station in a shared tunnel structure with line 8 and runs under it, its station is located at a greater depth.

The additions from the street are carried by Adolphe Dervaux designed Art Deco - candelabra marked. Joseph Cassien-Bernard designed the parapet of the entrance at the acute angle of the Boulevard des Italiens with the Boulevard Haussmann in the neoclassical style.

vehicles

First, seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson type ran on line 8 . From 1975 onwards, MF 67 trains came on line 8, which were replaced by the MF 77 series from 1980 . Since not all stations on Line 8 have been extended accordingly, only five-car trains are in use there today.

Sprague-Thomson trains, which were last used there, also ran on line 9 for decades. The MF 67 series was launched in 1983, and the MF 01 series has been increasingly used since October 2013 . On December 14, 2016, the last MF-67 train ran on line 9.

Surroundings

Passage des Princes

• Opera Comique Theater
• Passage des Princes covered shopping arcade from 1860
• Hôtel Drouot auction house

Remarks

1. ↑ Because the stations of line 8 to the west of Richelieu - Drouot were initially only 75 m long, the last two wagons of a train continued to run empty from there, as they did not reach the edge of the platform
2. ↑ The last Sprague Thomson train in regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

Commons : Richelieu - Drouot (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 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 186 .
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. 240 .
3. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 258.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 241.
5. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 259.
6. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
7. ^ Jean Robert: Notre Métro . 2nd Edition. J. Robert, Neuilly-sur-Seine 1983, p. 114 .
8. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 74.
9. ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 63 .
10. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 260.

Previous station	Paris metro	Next station
Opéra ←  Balard		Grands Boulevards Pointe du Lac  →
Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette ←  Pont de Sèvres		Grands Boulevards Mairie de Montreuil  →

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 20 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 22 ″  E