Porte de Vincennes () is a station on

Paris Métro Line 1 Paris Métro Line 1 ( French: ''Ligne 1 du métro de Paris'') is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It connects La Défense–Grande Arche in the northwest and Château de Vincennes in the southeast. Also, there is a future eastern e ...

. It is located on the Cours de Vincennes and named after the ''Porte de Vincennes'', a gate in the former

Thiers Wall The Thiers wall (''Enceinte de Thiers'') was the last of the defensive walls of Paris. It was an enclosure constructed between 1841 and 1846 and was proposed by the French prime minister Adolphe Thiers but was actually implemented by his succe ...

, which was at the beginning of the road to

Vincennes Vincennes (, ) is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is next to but does not include the Château de Vincennes and Bois de Vincennes, which are attached ...

History

The station opened on 19 July 1900 as part of the first stage of the line 1 between ''Porte de Vincennes'' and

Porte Maillot The Porte Maillot (also known as the porte Mahiaulx, Mahiau or Mahiot after a Paille-maille court, or the Porte de Neuilly Alfred Fierro, ''Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris'', Robert Laffont, 1580 pages, 1996 ; page 848 : "the porte de Neuill ...

. As the original eastern terminus of the line, ''Porte de Vincennes'' was the site of the very first construction work on the Paris Métro. An extension to

Château de Vincennes The Château de Vincennes () is a former fortress and royal residence next to the town of Vincennes, on the eastern edge of Paris, alongside the Bois de Vincennes. It was largely built between 1361 and 1369, and was a preferred residence, after ...

subsequently opened in 1934. Originally the station consisted of two separate island platforms for arrival and departure with tracks on each side. After the extension, a track on each island was filled in to create the present wide platforms.Hardy, B. ''Paris Metro Handbook''. 3rd Ed, 1999. Capital Transport Publishing. An interchange with an extension of

Paris tramway Line 3a Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

and the new Line 3b opened on 15 December 2012. Both routes terminate at Porte de Vincennes.

Station layout

References

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