Quatre-Septembre () is a station on

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located in the

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. It is named for the date of 4 September 1870, the date

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fell and the

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was proclaimed.

Location

The station is located under Rue du Quatre-Septembre, between Rue de Gramont and Rue de Choiseul. Oriented approximately along an east–west axis, it is located between the

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and Bourse stations.

History

The line opened in October 1904, when the first section of Line 3 began service between the Avenue de Villiers (today the station is known as simply Villiers) and

Père Lachaise A name suffix, in the Western English-language naming tradition, follows a person's full name and provides additional information about the person. Post-nominal letters indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accredit ...

. The station opened on 3 November 1904, three weeks after the first section of line 3 went into service. Until then, trains passed it without stopping there. Situated on the ''Rue du 4 Septembre'', the station commemorates the date of 4 September 1870, when

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proclaimed the beginning of the

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from the palace of the

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, after the capture of French emperor

by German

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during the Franco-Prussian War. Like a third of the stations in the network between 1974 and 1984, the platforms were modernized in the ''Andreu-Motte'' style, green in color with flat white tiles in this case. As part of the RATP's ''Metro Renewal'' program, the station's corridors were renovated on 16 May 2003. On 1 April 2016, half of the nameplates on the station's platforms were replaced by the RATP to make an April Fool joke for a day, as in twelve other stations. Quatre-Septembre is humorously renamed ''Premier Avril''. In 2019, 1,997,741 travelers entered this station which places it at the 246th position of the metro stations for its traffic out of 302. The station opened on 3 November 1904, three weeks after the first section of line 3 went into service between Avenue de Villiers (today Villiers) and Père Lachaise. Until then, trains crossed it without stopping there.

Passenger services

Access

The station has a single access entitled ''Rue du Quatre-Septembre'', opening at the right of the number 20 of the same street, at the corner of Rue Choiseul and Monsigny. Made up of a fixed staircase, it is adorned with a Guimard iron edicule, which is the subject of a decree as a historic monument on 29 May 1978.

Station layout

Platforms

Quatre-Septembre is a standard configuration station. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is in the ''Andreu-Motte'' style with two bright green light canopies, benches covered with flat green tiling and white ''Motte'' seats, which thus break the colorimetric uniformity of the decorative style. These arrangements are married with the flat white ceramic tiles which cover the walls and the tunnel exits, while the vault is painted in white. The outlets of the corridors are treated with classic bevelled white tiles. The advertising frames are metallic, and the name of the station is written in

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font on enamelled plates.

Bus services

The station is served by lines 20, 29, 39, 67, 74 and 85 of the

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and, at night, by lines N15 and N16 of the

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network.

Culture

Filming location for the Hollywood movie ''The Tourist'' (2010 film) with

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on site. The song ''Station Quatre Septembre'', written and composed by

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, and interpreted by

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on her album ''Love Songs'', seems to evoke the station. Biolay also took over the song himself.

Gallery

File:Metro 4-Septembre.jpg, Street-level entrance at Quatre-Septembre File:Metro de Paris - Ligne 3 - Quatre-Septembre 03.jpg,

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rolling stock on Line 3 at Quatre-Septembre

References

*Roland, Gérard (2003). ''Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram.'' Éditions Bonneton. {{DEFAULTSORT:Quatre-Septembre (Paris Metro) Paris Métro stations in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris Railway stations in France opened in 1904