La Tour-Maubourg () is a station on line 8 of the

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. It is located to the northwest of

Hôtel des Invalides The Hôtel des Invalides ( en, "house of invalids"), commonly called Les Invalides (), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as ...

in the 7th arrondissement. It is named after the Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, which in turn is named after

Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ, Marquis de La Tour-Maubourg (22 May 1768 – 11 November 1850) was a French cavalry commander under France's Ancien Régime before rising to prominence during the First French Empire. Under the Restoration, he se ...

(1768–1850), a general in the

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and Minister of War after the

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. He also served as the governor of the nearby

from 1821 to 1830.

History

The station opened on 13 July 1913 as part of the initial section of the line from ''Beaugrenelle'' (now Charles Michels on line 10) to

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. As part of the "Un métro + beau" programme by the RATP, the station's corridors and platform lighting were renovated and modernised on 10 March 2006. In 2019, the station was used by 2,139,593 passengers, making it the 236th busiest of the Métro network out of 302 stations. In 2020, the station was used by 965,136 passengers amidst the

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, making it the 245th busiest of the Métro network out of 304 stations. In 2021, the station was used by 1,361,723 passengers, making it the 246th busiest of the Métro network out of 304 stations.

Passenger services

Access

The station has 2 accesses: * Access 1: Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg * Access 2: rue de Grenelle (an ascending escalator)

Station layout

Platforms

The station has a standard configuration with 2 tracks surrounded by 2 side platforms. On the track leading towards ''Balard'', just before entering the station, there is a track connection from the loop of the old Invalides workshops on line 13, formerly the terminal loop of the old line 14 that connected

Invalides The Hôtel des Invalides ( en, "house of invalids"), commonly called Les Invalides (), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as ...

to Porte de Vanves.

Other connections

The station is also served by lines 28 and 69 of the

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Nearby

* Église protestante Saint-Jean de Paris * Église Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou * Esplanade des Invalides *

* Square Santiago-du-Chili

Gallery

File:Station métro La-Tour-Maubourg - IMG 3413.jpg, Ticket barriers at the mezzanine File:Accès Station Métro Tour Maubourg Place Salvador Allende - Paris VII (FR75) - 2022-01-22 - 7.jpg, Access 1 File:Métro La Tour-Maubourg, Paris 7e.jpg, Another view of access 1 File:Accès Station Métro Tour Maubourg Place Salvador Allende - Paris VII (FR75) - 2022-01-22 - 2.jpg, Access 2

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tour-Maubourg (Paris Metro) Paris Métro stations in the 7th arrondissement of Paris Railway stations in France opened in 1913