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General Information

Completion: 13 December 1900
Status: in use

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Coordinates: 48° 52' 17.40" N    2° 16' 36.37" E
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Materials

canopy cast iron

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Porte Dauphine (Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny) is a station of the Paris Métro. It is the western terminus of Line 2. Nearby, one can transfer to the RER C at Avenue Foch station (with no direct transfer). Paris Dauphine University is nearby.

Architecture

The station contains one of the three remaining "dragonfly" roofed Métro entrances by Hector Guimard (1867–1942), the Art Nouveau architect who was originally commissioned by the Compagnie du Métropolitain de Paris (CMP) in 1899 to design the entrances for the Métro stations. It is the only roofed entrance that is original, not reconstructed, and on its original site. It was restored in 1999.

Porte Dauphine's train hall also features the last complete set of the Métro's original cream-colored tilework. It dates from 1900, shortly before a decision was taken to adopt the Métro's now-ubiquitous white bevelled tilework.

History

The Porte Dauphine station was inaugurated on 13 December 1900. Although Line 2 had then been completed only as far as Charles de Gaulle – Étoile, it now runs from Porte Dauphine, around the northern part of Paris, through Montmartre, around to its eastern terminus at the Place de la Nation. It is named after Porte Dauphine, a gate in the 19th-century Thiers wall of Paris. Its subtititle honours Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Porte Dauphine (Paris Métro)" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20017927
  • Published on:
    03/10/2005
  • Last updated on:
    25/01/2022
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