Boissière station
Boissière  | |||||||||||
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| Paris Métro station | |||||||||||
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| Location | 16th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°52′03″N 2°17′25″E / 48.867386°N 2.290392°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RATP | ||||||||||
| Operated by | RATP | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 2 October 1900 | ||||||||||
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  Boissière Location within Paris | |||||||||||
Boissière (French: [bwasjɛʁ] ⓘ) is a station of the Paris Métro serving line 6 at the intersection of the Rue Boissière and the Avenue Kleber in the 16th arrondissement.
History
The station opened on 2 October 1900 as a branch of
In 1730, Rue Boissière was a road out of the city which was an extension of the Rue de la Croix-Boissière (French for "street of the wooden cross") inside Paris. Its name came from the custom of remembering the crucifixion by hanging up boxwood on Palm Sunday. The station is close to the location of the Barrière des Réservoirs, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished in the nineteenth century.[1][2][3]
Passenger services
Access
The station has a single entrance called Avenue Kléber, leading to the right of no. 57 in the avenue. Consisting of a fixed staircase, it is decorated with a Guimard entrance, which is the subject of a registration as a historical monument by the decree of 12 February 2016.[4]
Station layout
| Street Level |
| B1 | Mezzanine for platform connection |
| Platform level | Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| toward Charles de Gaulle – Étoile | ← Kléber )
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| toward Nation | Trocadéro ) →
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| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Platforms
Boissière is a station of standard configuration. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is of the style used for most metro stations, the light canopies are white and rounded in the Gaudin style of the 2000's metro revival, and the bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls, tunnel exits and corridor outlets. The vault is painted white. The advertising frames are metallic, and the name of the station is inscribed in Parisine font on enamelled plates. The seats are Motte style in green.
Bus connections
The station is served by lines 22, 30 and 82 of the
Nearby
- Square Thomas Jefferson
References
- ^ "Barrière des Réservoirs, picture" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
- ^ "Barrière des Réservoirs, picture" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
- ^ "Barrière des Réservoirs" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
- ^ "Métropolitain, station Boissière". www.pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
