Voltaire (Paris Metro)

Voltaire Léon Blum
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris XI
opening	December 10, 1933

Station sign

Trains of the series MF 67 (left) and MF 01 in the Voltaire station

Access with Art Deco candelabra

Voltaire is an underground station on line 9 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier de la Roquette in the 11th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under Boulevard Voltaire at the level of Place Léon Blum.

Surname

The Boulevard Voltaire gives it its name. The philosopher and writer Voltaire (actually François-Marie Arouet; 1694–1778) is one of the most influential authors of the French and European Enlightenment .

The station is nicknamed "Léon Blum". The lawyer, writer and socialist politician Léon Blum (1872–1950) was three times French Prime Minister . As the leading head of the French resistance , he was deported to Germany in 1943 and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp for two years .

History and description

The station went into operation on December 10, 1933 when line 9 was extended by 6430 m from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Montreuil . It has two side platforms on two main tracks and was built with a length of 105 m. The cross-section is elliptical , the ceiling and walls are tiled in white. The side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse.

The three entrances are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style . There is also another exit with an escalator.

vehicles

Line 9 is operated with conventional vehicles that run on steel rails. Initially, trains of the Sprague-Thomson type , which were last used there, ran. 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.

Remarks

1. ↑ The standard length of the stations opened before 1931 was 75 m
2. ↑ The stations built by the Nord-Sud railway company, which competed until 1929, have vertical walls under elliptical ceilings
3. ↑ On several lines of the Paris Métro trains run with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
4. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

Commons : Voltaire (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. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 212 .
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. 259 .
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. 260.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '28 "  N , 2 ° 22' 48"  E