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Trocadéro opened on 2 October 1900 when the line 6 started its service.
It is an underground station situated in the 16th arrondissement.
Today it is served by the metro lines 6 and 9.
The station entrance is surrounded by a strong, solid stone balustrade.
An escalator leads to the surface, as well as stairs.
At the back of the entrance is one of the rare Val d'Osne lampposts. It is green with a white globe shaped light, topped with a crown.
The walls in the corridor are tiled with white tiles with a raised centre. The top border row is dark green with 3D flower-shaped patterns. The wall above is painted.
The escalator leads from one level of the corridor to the next. It is signposted direction Eiffel Tower.
The top and bottom stairs are marked in white to highlight them.
Platform Line 6
Line 6 started operation on 2 October 1900.
The walls are covered in small white rectangular tiles with a raised centre. The vaulted ceiling is painted white.
The lights are metal uplighting and reflecting on the metal top.
Advertising in large curved boards surrounded by a white ceramic frame.
The edge of the platform is marked in white. A row of about 20 cm wide nobbed tiles has been added to warn sight-impaired travellers of the edge.
Green metal seats in the shape of a half-bowl with a slit have been fixed to a green metal bar.
Platform Line 9
Line 9 started operation on 8 November 1922. This station opened as the terminal of the first section between Trocadéro and Excelmans.
The platform has been designed by Andreu-Motte. The overhead lights are in green metal boxes running along the edge of the platform.
The seats and ceramic tiles are matching.
The walls and ceiling have been tiled in white, rectangular flat tiles.
Green plastic seats have been fixed on a base of green ceramic tiles.
Display board from the year 2015. It shows the line, the actual time and the waiting time of the next two trains to Montreuil.
The figures are made up of a series of dots.
Access to the platform is in matching green ceramic tiles.
The signage is in white mixed case letters on a dark blue plasticised sign without frame.
In 2024, the display board has been given a new look. It looks more stylish and no longer shows the names of the operating companies. The figures are solid and easy to read.
It is tradition for the RATP to take part in in the tradition of April Fools jokes.
In 2024 it renamed a number of stations to celebrate the olympic and para-olympic games which take place later that year, as well as to highlight the week of olympic and para-olympic games (2 - 6 April 2024).
For a day, the platform of line 9 was renamed to Trocanoë.
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The underground station Charles Michels opened on 13 July 1913. When it opened it was one of the terminals of the M8 and carrired the name Beaugrenelle. In 1937 it was reassigned to be part of the M10. In 1946 the station changed its name to comemmorate Charles Michels (1903 - 1941), a trade unionist and communist militant.
The station is situated in the 15th arrondissement, on the left bank of the river Seine. It is served by the metro line 10 and has no connections with other lines.
The entrance to the station is surrounded by a plain green metal fence made of vertical bars of different lengths and topped with a level bar.
Attached to the enclosure is the rectangular station sign. It consists of a lit frame with changing advertising and the station name and the lines that deserve it above.
Metal handrails have been fixed to the sides.
At the end of the entrance - at ground level - are five round lights in green metal fittings.
The green lamppost has a green frame containig a red Metro sign with white lettering which light up at darkness.
On top of the lamppost is a white globe light.
The walls of the entrance are tiled in small white rectangular ceramic tiles with raised centres. The border tiles are dark brown with two embossed diamonds with cross per tile.
The corridor leading to the platforms has a relatively low flat ceiling which is painted white.
The walls are tiled in small white ceramic tiles of the Metro style. There are only border tiles near the ground. They are plain dark brown.
On the wall is a map of the network in a white ceramic frame.
The floor is painted with grey non-slip paint.
The corridor leading to the exit is lined with large advertising boards which cover nearly the complete height of the walls. The frames of the advertising boards are made of mustard coloured ceramic tiles which are decorated with leaves.
Two row of LED light tubes have been attached on the sides of the flat, painted ceiling.
At the end of the corridor are stands for three moving exit barriers.
The entrance to the tunnel shows the signalisation. The arch of the tunnel is shallow.
The ceiling is made up of several small, tiled arches. They are supported by several silver coloured beams.
Along the edge of the platforms are two white wide lines to mark the edge.
The seats in this station are bright yellow metal half-spheres with a slit, making them look like smilies. They have been placed in a row on a stainless steel bar, which has been fixed to the ground.
Behind them is a large advertising board in a metal frame.
The signage is a blue plasticised sign without a frame. The station name is printed in mixed white letters.
The metal advertising boards are fixed to the wall in an angle and reach into the ceiling arches.
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Alésia is an underground station which opened on 30 October 1909 when the line was extended south from Raspail and Porte d'Orléans. It takes its name from the battle of Alésia in the Gallic wars where Vercingetorix surrendered to Julius Cesar.
It is situated in the 14th arrondissement.
The station is served by the metro line 4. It is in process to be renovated for the refurbishment of the line and the installation of platform barriers scheduled for 2020.
The original lamppost of the entrance has been replaced with a silver pole of the 1970's period. A yellow light shaped as a large letter M is surrounded by two steel circles.
The station sign is a green frame with glass. In it has been placed a map of the metro network. Above the map is a blue bar with the station name and to the side of it the line number of the metro.
Entrance to the station. Metal handrails have been fixed to the side walls. The walls are tiled with small white ceramic tiles and green border tiles.
The station sign, which is intergrated into the short section of theenclosure shows changing advertisements at this side.
The enclosure is made of two panels of green metal bars on a low stone base. The right side is the fence of the adjacent church.
At the back - at ground level - are three round lighs in green light fittings.
Stairs down a corridor towards the platform. Metal handrails have been attached to the walls.
The walls are tiled until about shoulder height. The ceiling above the green border tile is painted white.
A continuous row of lights has been placed in the apex of the ceiling.
The platform signage is a blue plasticised sign without frame and white lettering. Unlike the walls in the corridor, the tiles on the wall here are white and flat.
The lighting has been replaced with temporary light.
The lower parts of the tiled walls and advertising boards have been already removed.
The floor has been painted grey.
Along the platform is a ventilation and evacuation shaft. The grill of it is decorated with a figure of a Gallic warrior in cape and horned helmet in reference to Vercingetorix and the Gallic wars.
Leonardo diCaprio looks out of a half-demolished advertising board, in a yellow ceramic frame.
In 2016 the walls and ceiling have been completely stripped to let the walls dry out for several weeks before they are renovated.
The fence between the tracks is typical for the line.
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Lourmel opened on 27 July 1937 when the line was extended from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to Balard. It takes its name from Frédéric Henri Le Normand de Lourmel (1811-1854), a general in the French army.
It is situated in the 15th arrondissement.
The station is an underground station served by the metro line 8.
Entrance to the station.
It is enclosed in a green metal fence made of bars of different lengths on a stone base. The station sign is fixed to the fence in a square metal frame. The top shows information of the metro line number and the name of the station. The lower part contains changing advertising.
Metal handrails are fixed to the white tiled walls on either side.
Unlike other other entrances of the same type, this station has no round lights fixed to the far end of the entrance.
On the left side of the entrance is a green lamppost designed by Derveaux. It incorporated a red panel with the word Metro in white transparent letters which is lit up at darkness.
A thick row of plasticised circles mark the entrance for visually impaired passengers.
The station has a centre and a side platform. Advertising panels surrounded by mustard coloured ceramic tiles have been intergrated along the wall. They are decorated with two small corner and one large centre flower embelishment on the top.
The vaulted ceiling is tiled in small white rectangular ceramic tiles with a raised centre. The tiles continue until the ground.
The floor is painted in a grey non-slip covering.
The platform edges are marked with a thick white line and a grey band of raised circles.
Platform lights have been placed over the edge of the the side platform and the centre of the centre platform.
The lightling consists of lights fixed on a lower metal bar are reflecting from the curved upper sheet. They have been designed by Bruno-Gaudin.
Some white plastic seats have been fixed to the wall with a metal beam. Next to them is a steel frame to lean against while waiting.
Passengers can exit the platform (direction Balard) through a short corridor with metal framed glass doors. Passengers push the metal centre part to open the doors.
An escalator leads directly to the surface.
Access to the platform from the connecting bridge is via a short set of stairs.
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The station opened on 5 November 1910 when the line 7 started its operation.
It is situated in the 9th arrondissement opposite the department store Galeries Lafayette.
Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette is served by the metro lines 7 and 9. Both lines have underground platforms.
The entrance to the station is surrounded by a green metal enclosure with simple bars of different lengths.
The walls are tiled in white ceramic tiles with a raised centre. They are topped with green border tiles.
Metal handrails have been fixed to the wall.
At ground level are four round lights in green light fittings.
To the left of the entrance is a green lamppost with a red sign. The lamppost is topped with a white ball shaped light.
The connecting corridor is tiled in white ceramic tiles with raised centres until about shoulder height. The last row consists of green tiles with four-petalled flowers in a diamond shape.
Metal advertising boards have been stuck on top of the tiles.
The top of the walls and ceiling are painted white.
A row of lights have been attached to the heighest point of the ceiling.
Platform Line 7
Line 7 started operation on 5 November 1910.
The slightly vaulted ceiling is made up of large rectangles which have been painted with several scenes.
The platform signage consists of the station name written in white upper and lower case letters on a dark blue plasticised background without frame.
Access to the platforms is from the side by ascending some stairs, which are separated from the platform by a light blue fence.
In a corner are two vending machines.
The ground is painted grey. The edge of the platform is marked with a white line and an area of raised circles.
Scene on the ceiling showing stars in the night sky.
The lights are encased in dark blue metal rectangular boxes in the Andreu-Motte style.
Medium blue plastic seats have been fixed to a base of matching blue ceramic flat tiles.
Behind the seating are large advertising boards in a thin metal frame.
Platform Line 9
Line 9 started operation on 3 June 1923.
Line 9 has two side platforms. Entrance to the platforms is from the end.
The slightly curved walls are tiled in white, flat rectangular tiles.
The lights are hidden in the ceiling.
The platform sign is a large blue lightbox in a metal frame with the name "Chaussée d'Antin La Fayette" written in white letters.
Underneath the sign is a "note" written in ocre paint on a background of white tiles and framed with a drawn line.
"Au dessus la voute, et enfin les regards se croissent - LaFayette rapporte un modèle de Constitution d'Amérique - Ernest Hemingway se pose à Paris pour écrire quelques fetes mythiques et folles. Electrifiés par Benjamin Franklin les étoiles et les rouges de Matisse s'allument pour la dernière chanson d'Edith Piaf. Une Cadillac d'enfant - une plume d'oiseau se colle au mur. 15 octobre 1991"
Light blue plastic seats have been fixed on a base with red ceramic tiles.
Behind the seats are large advertising boards with thin metal frames.
The wall is tiled in small white tiles with a flat surface.
The platform has a false ceiling which is curved. The base colour of the ceiling is yellow.
One of the personalities shown is Edith Piaf - a singer also known "The little Sparrow".
