The station opened on 25 February 1903 when the line 2 started operations.
It is situated on the border of the 11th and 20th arrondissements.
It is served by the metro lines 2 and 3. The station takes its name from the nearby Père Lachaise cemetery, which in turn takes its name from Father François d'Aix de La Chaise, confessor to Louis XIV of France.
The station entrance is in Art Nouveau style. The two lampposts holding the Metropolitain sign are in the form of a flower with red lights. They are painted a greyish green.
The word Metropolitain has been written in capital letters on a light yellow background.
The green panels of the balustrade are designed by Hector Guimard.
Platform Line 2
Line 2 started operation on 25 February 1903. It is an underground platform.
The line has two side platforms.
Light tubes have been placed in orange, rectangular metal casings.
The platform edge is painted white, followed by a strip of raised circles.
Entrance to the platform is from the end.
The vaulted ceiling is tiled. The entrance to the tunnel, but not the entrances to the platforms, is tiled in orange.
Advertising is placed in boards with a metal frame.
Seating is provided in the form of orange plastic seats fixed to the wall by a grey metal bar.
The walls are tiled in rectangular white flat tiles. The signage consists of white mixed case letters on a blue plastic covered rectangle without frame.
Platform Line 3
Line 3 started operation on 19 October 1904. The platform is underground.
The ceiling is constructed from brick in small arches and painted white. It is supported by steel beams painted yellow.
Entrance to the platform is from the end.
The platform edge is painted white, followed by a strip of raised circles and a thinner yellow line.
Ticket control is on the platform. Two machines with a turnstile and movable barriers.
The lights are the same design as those of line 2, however they are yellow to match the steel beams and the seats.
The walls are tiled in white, flat, rectangular tiles placed vertical.
The signage is in mixed case on a blue sign.
The yellow plastic chairs are fixed with a yellow metal bar to the wall and supported from the ground.
The station opened on 31 October 1912.
It is situated in the 18th arrondissement. The quays of the station are the deepest of the network, lying 36m below the entrance. Access is given by either walking down or taking one of the two large lifts. The station is named after the abbesses of a former nunnery at Montmartre.
Abbesses is an underground station on the metro line 12.
Entrance to the station from place des Abbesses with the name of the station in the Art Nouveau style in green letters on a yellow background.
Underneath is a map of the Parisian metro network.
The glass canopy in the Art Nouveau style was designed by Hector Guinard. It incorporates the "Metropolitain" signage against a beige background.
The balustrade around the entrance is made of large green floral inspired panels.
The walls are beige-brown with a stencilled pattern.
Corridor on the landing. The walls are tiled with white ceramic tiles
The ceiling is painted white.
Narrow advertising panels have been places between the handrail and the top border tiles.
Abbesses is part of the original Nord-Sud Line.
An intertwined N & S with ribbons has been incorporated in the ceramic tiles of the advertising frames.
Walking down to the platforms. The walls have been covered with 7 photographs of the area by the artist Jacques Habbas.
Here is the basilica Sacre Coeur.
Handrails have been fixed to the steps on the outer side of the round stairs, and on the wall on the inner part.
Photo of place de Tertre and the St Pierre church. The image is topped by brown tiles with a wave pattern. Brown tiles indicate that the station has no transfer to other metro lines.
Large lift. The sign above says Direction to exit. You enter through the doors this side and exit through the other side.
Tunnel and platform on either side of the tracks. Above the entrance to the tunnel is a sign made of white square tiles. Painted in blue lettering is DIR ON PTE DE LA Chapelle - all in uppercase - and an arrow pointing to the platform on the other side. It is framed by brown ceramic tiles.
The other tunnel has a similar sign.here the text reads : DIR ON PTE DE VERSAILLES. A white paperlike sheet has been fixed to the ceiling and tunnel top, which obscures part of the writing.
The walls and the vaulted ceiling are tiled. The ceiling is divided into several brown frames with a pattern of ribbons.
The signage is made of large white letters on dark blue ceramic tiles in a white frame inside a brown ceramic frame.
A row of five yellow metal seats in half-bowl shape have been fixed on a silver metal bar under the signage.
The platform lights are in a long silver tube. They are suspended from the ceiling by pairs of two metal bars.
There are no platform doors, so the edge of the platform is painted white and next to it is a row of raised circles.
Grands Boulevards is an underground station which opened on 5 May 1931 as Montmartre, named after one of the side streets nearby. To avoid confusion with the Montmartre Hill, its name was changed on 1 September 1998.
The station is situated on the border of the 2nd and 9th arrondissements.
It is served by the metro lines 8 and 9.
Outside the station is a modern square noticeboard with the icons of the two lines (8 and 9) and the station name above some underglass advertising.
The entrance is surrounded by a green metal fence bars of alternating lengths.
Five round lamps above the stairs at street level light the entrance during darkness.
The station also has an old green lamppost with a metro sign and a white round light at the top. The word "METRO" is cut out the red metal and underlaid with white glass, so that the sign can be seen during darkness.
Another exit. This exit has an escalator leading out, and a narrow stairway.
A metal handrail has been fixed to the tiled wall.
The entrance hall has four turnstyles with swing arm barriers. To the left and right of the block are two exit door frames with metal doors which open in the centre.
The monitor gives brief notices of any traffic problems.
The advertising panels in the corridor are starting nearly at ground level. They are surrounded by a honey-coloured frame of ceramic tiles with a cabbage leaf pattern. At the inner side of the frame runs a line of dashes and dots.
The corridor between the two lines can be partitioned off by a folding full-height gate.
The walls are tiled in white tiles with a dark brown border tile. The ceiling is painted, although it needs some renovation.
Platform Line 8
The station started operation on 5 May 1931 when the line 8 Richelieu - Drouot was extended to Porte de Charenton. The two platforms are separated by a supporting wall.
The wall and vaulted ceiling are tiled in white flat rectangular ceramic tiles, which have been placed horizontal.
Towards the tunnel end are a couple of arched breaks in the wall.
Orange plastic seats are mounted on a base running along the wall. The base is covered in red tiles.
The advertising boards are placed in thin metal frames placed behind the seats.
Below the signage are two smaller frames: one holds a map of the immediate area, the other some RATP related information.
The light tubes are in red metal boxes running along the edge of the platform.
The display shows the current time and the time of the next two metros of the line 8 towards Créteil.
Platform Line 9
Line 9 started operation on 10 December 1933 when the original line from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Montreuil was extended.
The signage of the platform is in white upper and lower case letters on a blue plasticised background.
The walls are tiled in white flat tiles placed vertical.
Green plastic seats have been fixed on a base tiled with moss-green ceramic tiles.
The advertising boards are surrounded by thin metal frames and placed on the other side of the tracks, on the supporting central wall.
The ceiling is painted white, supported by beams in a box pattern.
The edge of the platform is highlighted in white with a row of grey tiles with raised circles.
The floor is painted in grey. Lighting is running along the platform in moss-green metal boxes with light strips.
The station opened on 5 November 1910.
It is situated in the 15th arrondissement. The station takes its name from the Convention nationale (21 September 1792 to 26 October 1795), which founded the First Republic. This was the first time an assembly was elected by all males over 25 regardless of class.
It is served by the metro line 12. Convention is an underground station.
The fence around the entrance is green with straight bars of equal height.
The station sign is a square box fixed to the fence. From the back it shows the station name, the number of the metro line and a map of the metro network. It is lit.
At the entrance is a steel pole with a large yellow letter M in a double circle. The sign is lit at night.
Some plastic hello signs have been added in different languages.
Lower on the wall of the entrance brightly coloured plastic rectangles have been stuck on the white tiles.
Corridor from entrance towards the platforms. The corridor has some twists.
The walls are tiled. The top border tiles are in brown with a flower pattern.
Two metal exit doors from the platform.
The doors open in the middle when activated by standing on the pressure pads on the ground.
The walls are covered in metal sheaths.
The signage is integrated in the walls.
The blue plastic seats in front of the advertising match the encasing of the lights and the bar at the bottom of the sheath.
Lighting is provided by uncovered flourescent tubes over the edge of the platform. Additional lights are incorporated in the blue covers of the walls.
A white line and a row of mark the edge of the platform.
The ground is painted grey.
The tracks are between the two platforms.
The electronic display sign shows the time and the waiting time for the next two trains in the direction of Mairie d'Issy.
The curved ceiling is tiled and divided into frames with brown tiles.
Entry to (and exit from) the platform is from the side.
The station opened 5 November 1910 as part of the original line A between Porte de Versailles and
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, which was operated by the Nord-Sud Company.
The underground station is situated in the 7th arrondissement. It is served by the metro line 12.
The station takes it name from the fact that the road where it is situated leads to the Seine. During the construction of the Tuileries Palace in the 16th century, a ferry (called bac in French) operated from that point.
Five round lights are at the back of the entrance at ground level.
The modern station sign is in a square panel with moving advertising. Above it on two curved green metal poles hangs an old Metropolitain sign. The rectangular sign is red and the white angular letters spell out the word "Metropolitain" in white upper case. The sign is lit during darkness.
The swirly ironwork on the surround of the entrance is painted black. It is supported by pillars tiled in beige-brown tiles with some small ceramic flowers at the top section.
Close to the top step are two strips with raised circles.
The walls of the entrance area are tiled in light brown small ceramic tiles without shiny glaze. Girlandes of brown flowers and blueish leaves have been stencilled on the tiles just below ground level.
Handrails have been fixed to the walls.
The company logo of the original owners of the metro line - the Nord-Sud Company- can be found on the ceramic frames of the advertising boards. A capital letter S is intertwined with an uppercase N with a ribbon in the background. The medium brown tiles are smooth with curves to give them different depths.
The lights are in a row of orange rectangular metal boxes stuck together suspended from the ceiling.
The walls are tiled up to about head height, the vaulted ceiling is painted white.
The advertising frames on the platforms are made of metal.
The tracks are between the platforms.
Seating is provided by orange plastic seats mounted on a base covered with orange tiles.
The signage consists of a dark blue plastic covered recctangle with white letters in mixed case. Underneath - in white frames - are a map of the tram and bus network, and a copy of the transport conditions.
The walls are tiled in white flat tiles.