Paris Metro – Porte Dauphine
Porte Dauphine Entrance View
Porte Dauphine (Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny) is a station of the Paris Metro. It is the western terminus of Line 2. Nearby, one can transfer to the RER C atAvenue Foch station (with no direct transfer). Paris Dauphine University is nearby.
The station contains one of the only two remaining aedicules originally designed by Hector Guimard (1867–1942), the Art Nouveau architect who was originally commissioned by the Compagnie du Metropolitain de Paris (CMP) in 1899 to design the entrances for the Metropolitain stations. (The other is at Abbesses.)
History
The Porte Dauphine station was inaugurated on 13 December 1900. At the time, Line 2 had only been completed as far as Charles de Gaulle—Etoile. 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 nineteenth century Thiers wall of Paris. Its subtititle honours Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny. (Text Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)
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