Anatole France () is a station on

Paris Métro Line 3 Paris Métro Line 3 (French: ''Ligne 3 du métro de Paris'') is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It connects Pont de Levallois–Bécon station in the near northwestern suburbs to Gallieni in the east, where Paris's international bu ...

. It is located in the commune of

Levallois-Perret Levallois-Perret () is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies some from the centre of Paris in the north-western suburbs of the French capital. It is the most densely populated ...

, northwest of the capital.

Location

The station is located under Rue Anatole-France in Levallois-Perret at the intersection with Rue Voltaire.

History

It was opened on 24 September 1937 when the line was extended from

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to Pont de Levallois–Bécon. The station is on the Rue Anatole France, which is named after the author

Anatole France (; born , ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie França ...

, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. In 2018, 3,734,650 passengers entered this station, which placed it at 140th position of the metro stations for its usage. Since June 2017, the station has benefited from a renovation aimed at alleviating leakage problems and was completed by 31 December 2018.

Passenger services

Access

The station has two entrances and an escalator, located on Place du Général-Leclerc.

Station layout

Platforms

Anatole France is a standard configuration station. It has two platforms, 105 meters long, separated by the metro tracks, and the vault is elliptical. The platforms are partially offset (like

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) due to the narrow width of the street under which they are located. The

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and Liège stations have platforms that are completely offset for the same reason. The decoration is of the style used for most metro stations. The lighting canopies are white and rounded in the ''Gaudin'' style of the ''renouveau du métro'' of the 2000s, and the bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls, the vault, and the tunnel exits. The advertising frames are

faience Faience or faïence (; ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major a ...

in a honey colour and the name of the station is also of faience. It is equipped with benches.

Bus connections

The station is served by lines 174 and 274 of the

RATP Bus Network The RATP bus network covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the vast majority of its near suburbs. Operated by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), this constitutes a dense bus network complementary to other public ...

and at night, by lines N16 and N52 of the

Noctilien Noctilien is the night bus service in Paris and its agglomeration. It is managed by the Île-de-France Mobilités (formerly the STIF), the Île-de-France regional public transit authority, and operated by RATP (with 32 lines) and Transilien SNC ...

network.

Nearby

* Mairie de Levallois-Perret * Parc de la Planchette, open to the public in 1924 * Temple de la Petite Étoile

Gallery

File:Paris metro3 - anatole france - entrance.jpg, Street-level entrance File:Metro de Paris - Ligne 3 - Anatole France 01.jpg, Line 3 platforms File:Métro Anatole France pendant rénovation Juin 2018.jpg, Platforms prior renovation

References

*Roland, Gérard (2003). ''Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram.'' Éditions Bonneton. {{DEFAULTSORT:Anatole France (Paris Metro) Paris Métro stations in Levallois-Perret Railway stations in France opened in 1937