Raspail () is a

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of the

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, serving Line 4 and Line 6 in the 14th arrondissement. The station is now fitted with

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, due to the Line 4 being fitted for automation.

Location

The station is located under

Boulevard Raspail Boulevard Raspail is a boulevard of Paris, in France. Its orientation is north–south, and joins boulevard Saint-Germain with place Denfert-Rochereau whilst traversing 7th, 6th and 14th arrondissements. The boulevard intersects major roadw ...

at the intersection with Boulevard Edgar-Quinet.

Name

The station is named after the ''Boulevard Raspail'', named after 19th-century scientist and statesman

François-Vincent Raspail François-Vincent Raspail, L.L.D., M.D. (25 January 1794 – 7 January 1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, physician, physiologist, attorney, and socialist politician. Biography Raspail was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. A member of the ...

History

The station opened on 24 April 1906 with the opening of the extension of line 2 Sud from

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. On 14 October 1907, ''line 2 Sud'' became part of line 5. On 12 October 1942, the section of line 5 between Étoile and ''Place d'Italie'', including ''Raspail'' was transferred from line 5 to line 6 in order to separate the underground and elevated sections of the metro (because the latter were more vulnerable to air attack during

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). The line 4 platforms were opened on 30 October 1909 when the southern section of line 4 was opened between ''Raspail'' and

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; this was temporarily separated from the section of line 4 opened on 21 April 1908 between Châtelet and

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. On 9 January 1910, the connecting section opened under the

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between ''Châtelet'' and ''Raspail'', completing line 4. The station was renovated a first time after 1969 by adopting the style ''Mouton-Duvernet'' two-tone orange, cutting radically with the dominant white of the original metro. The station was renovated a second time in 2008 as part of the ''Renouveau du métro'' program and loses its ''Mouton'' style decoration and its orange tiles. The new furniture was blue on Line 6 and water green on Line 4. In 2017, new modifications were applied to the platforms of Line 4, as part of the future automation of the line. In 2018, 1,995,962 travelers entered this station (connecting passengers between the two metro lines were not taken into account) which places it at the 259th position of the metro stations for its attendance.

Passenger services

Access

The station has two entrances in front of nos. 234 and 241 of the Boulevard Raspail.

Station layout

Platforms

The platforms of the two lines are parallel and located at the same level. The platforms in the direction of Mairie de Montrouge and Charles de Gaulle-Étoile are connected to each other by two passages, offering a direct connection. The platforms of the two lines are of standard configuration. They are separated by the metro tracks located in the center and the roofs of each line are elliptical. They are decorated in the style used for the majority of the metro stations. White ceramic bevelled tiles cover the walls, the tympans and the outlets of the corridors. The roofs are coated and painted white and the name of the station is in the

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font on enamelled plates. On the platforms of line 6, the lighting strip is white and rounded in the ''Gaudin'' style of the metro revival of the 2000s, the advertising frames are a white ceramic and the seats are in ''Akiko'' blue style. On Line 4, the metro is automated, there are no more banners, advertising frames, advertising or seats. After the successful experiment of the Line 14, the RATP started to look forward to automate existing lines. After completely automating line 1, the RATP started focusing on the Line 4. Because of that, Raspail was fitted with

and were installed in September and October 2018.

Bus connections

The station is served by Line 68 of the

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Nearby

Nearby are the

Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain The Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, known simply as the Fondation Cartier, is a contemporary art museum located at 261 boulevard Raspail in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, 14th arrondissement of the France, French capital, Paris. H ...

(contemporary art museum), the

École Spéciale d'Architecture The École spéciale d'architecture (ÉSA; formerly École centrale d'architecture) is a private school for architecture at 254, boulevard Raspail in Paris, France. The school was founded in 1865 by engineer Emile Trélat as reaction against the ...

(architecture school) and the

Montparnasse Cemetery Montparnasse Cemetery (french: link=no, Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. The cemetery is roughly 47 acres and is the second largest cemetery in Paris. The cemetery ...

Gallery

Raspail métro ES.jpg, Street-level entrance at Raspail Station Raspail Métro Paris Ligne 6 - Paris XIV (FR75) - 2022-07-04 - 2.jpg, Line 6 platforms at Raspail

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raspail (Paris Metro) Paris Métro stations in the 14th arrondissement of Paris Railway stations in France opened in 1906 Paris Métro stations located underground