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Boulogne–Pont De Saint-Cloud Station
Boulogne–Pont de Saint-Cloud () is the western terminus of Line 10 of the Paris Métro. The station lies under the Rond-Point Rhin et Danube, east of the Pont de Saint-Cloud over the Seine, in the suburban commune of Boulogne-Billancourt. The station opened on 2 October 1981 when Line 10 was extended from Boulogne–Jean Jaurès. The station is the most westerly station on Paris Métro system. Passenger services Access The station has four accesses divided into six Métro entrances: * access 1 - ''Route de la Reine'', consisting of a fixed staircase decorated with a mast with a yellow "M" inscribed in a circle, leading to the odd sidewalk of this road, at the corner with Avenue André-Morizet; * access 2 - ''Avenue Jean-Baptiste-Clément'', also consisting of a fixed staircase, located at the end of this avenue to the right of no. 1 of the Rhin et Danube roundabout; * access 3 - ''Rue du Port - Musée Albert-Kahn'', consisting of two fixed stairs established back-to-back on t ...
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Paris Métro
The Paris Métro (, , or , ), short for Métropolitain (), is a rapid transit system serving the Paris metropolitan area in France. A symbol of the city, it is known for its density within the capital's territorial limits, uniform architecture and Paris Métro entrances by Hector Guimard, historical entrances influenced by Art Nouveau. The system is long, mostly underground. It has 321 stations of which 61 have transfers between lines. The Montmartre funicular is considered to be part of the metro system within which is represented by a 303rd fictive station, "Funiculaire".Statistiques Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France rapport 2005' (in French) states 297 stations + Olympiades + Les Agnettes + Les Courtilles The Métro has sixteen lines (with an additional Grand Paris Express, four under construction), numbered 1 to 14, with two lines, Paris Métro Line 3bis, Line 3bis and Paris Métro Line 7bis, Line 7bis, named because they used to be part of Paris Métro Line 3, Lin ...
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Parisine
Parisine is a typeface that was created by Jean-François Porchez and is distributed by Typofonderie. The typeface is used in Paris Métro, tramways and buses and the parts of RER parts that are operated by the RATP Group in Île-de-France. In 2015, the Osaka City Subway in Japan adopted Parisine as the Latin-character component of its new signage system, which is gradually being introduced throughout its network. Parisine The font was originally developed in 1996 as a custom typeface in Bold and Bold Italic developed for the RATP to improve signage legibility and space economy. The design was based on the proportions of Helvetica Bold but is condensed at 90%. In 1999, the font was extended to a font family for multiple uses like communication material and maps. In 2000, hinted TrueType versions were added for internal corporate use. The name Parisine is a trademark of the RATP. Parisine Std Parisine Std is an OpenType variant of Parisine. A small caps version was produce ...
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Parc De Saint-Cloud
The Parc de Saint-Cloud (; Park of Saint-Cloud), officially the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud (; National Estate of Saint-Cloud), is a ''domaine national'' (national estate) located mostly within the Saint-Cloud commune, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, southwest of Paris, France. The park, which covers , was a nature reserve on the left bank of the Seine until 1923. It was centred around the former Château de Saint-Cloud, home of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640–1701), which was destroyed by French bombing in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War after the Prussians had made a base of it. The château was the meeting place of the Council of Five Hundred and Council of Ancients on 10 November 1799, the day following Napoleon's Coup of 18 Brumaire. On 9 November 1994 the Parc de Saint-Cloud was classified as a historical monument. In 2005 it was awarded the Notable Garden status. The park is operated as a ''domaine national'' under the Ministry of Culture's Centre des mon ...
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The Archives Of The Planet
''The Archives of the Planet'' () was a project undertaken from 1908 to 1931 to photograph human cultures around the world. It was sponsored by French banker Albert Kahn (banker), Albert Kahn and resulted in 183,000 meters of film and 72,000 color photographs from 50 countries. Beginning on a round-the-world trip that Kahn took with his chauffeur, the project grew to encompass expeditions to Brazil, rural Scandinavia, the Balkans, North America, the Middle East, Asia, and West Africa, among other destinations, and documented historical events such as the aftermath of the Second Balkan War, World War I in France, and the Turkish War of Independence. It was inspired by Kahn's Internationalism (politics), internationalist and pacifist beliefs. The project was halted in 1931 after Kahn lost most of his fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, stock market crash of 1929. Since 1990, the collection has been administered by the Musée Albert-Kahn, and most of the images are available ...
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Musée Albert-Kahn
The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, at 14, Rue du Port, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions. With the aim of promoting French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn's work, it houses '' The Archives of the Planet'' collection, built up by Kahn between 1909 and 1931 (72,000 colour photographs on autochrome plates, making it the largest collection of its kind in the world, 184,000 metres, or a hundred hours of black-and-white and colour film, 4,000 black-and-white stereoscopic plates from 50 countries around the world) and a garden of landscape scenes covering almost four hectares, which forms an integral part of the museum's collections. Since September 2014, construction works are committed for the extension and the refurbishment of the museum supervised by the architect Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect and emeritus professor in the Department of Architecture (Graduate Schoo ...
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Saint-Cloud
Saint-Cloud () is a French commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris. Like other communes of Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of France's wealthiest towns, with the second-highest average household income of communities with 10,000 to 50,000 households. Saint-Cloud is home to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), located in the Parc de Saint-Cloud's Pavillon de Breteuil. History The town is named after Clodoald, grandson of Clovis, who is supposed to have sought refuge in a hamlet on the Seine near Paris, then named Novigentum, like many other newly founded mercantile settlements outside the traditional towns. After he was canonized, the village where his tomb was located took the name of Sanctus Clodoaldus. A park contains the ruins of the Château de Saint-Cloud, built in 1572 and destroyed by fire in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. The château wa ...
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ÃŽle-de-France Tramway Line 2
Île-de-France tramway Line 2 (T2; French language, French: ''Ligne 2 du tramway d'Île-de-France'') is part of the modern Tramways in Île-de-France, tram network of the Île-de-France region of France. It connects the Communes of France, commune of Bezons in the north to the Porte de Versailles station, Porte de Versailles Paris Métro, Métro station in Paris in the south, serving Hauts-de-Seine and its La Défense business district. It is one of the busiest tram lines in France. The line has been operated by the RATP Group, RATP since its opening, under the authority of Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM). Future operation of line will become subject to a competitive bidding process in November 2029. The line has a length of and 24 stations. The initial section between La Défense station and Issy–Val de Seine station opened in July 1997, uses a former heavy rail line converted into light rail (), whereas the further extensions on both ends opened in November 2009 and Novemb ...
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Villejuif–Louis Aragon Station
Villejuif–Louis Aragon station () is a station of the Paris Métro, located in the commune of Villejuif. History The station opened on 28 February 1985 when Line 7 was extended from Le Kremlin-Bicêtre and serves the commune of Villejuif as the southwestern terminus of one of Paris Métro Line 7's branches (the terminus on the other branch is Mairie d'Ivry'').'' The station is named after the ''Avenue Louis Aragon'' and Louis Aragon (1897–1982), a French writer. Early plans to extend line 14 from Olympiades to the Orly Airport included the possibility of taking over the existing line 7 branch from Maison Blanche to this station. However, the inclusion of line 14 in the Grand Paris Express project means that the line 14 extension to Orly will only consist of new infrastructure and the plan has been shelved. Line 15 (another Grand Paris Express line) will serve this station from late 2026 onwards (as of August 2021), two year later than originally intended in 2024, wi ...
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Villejuif–Paul Vaillant-Couturier Station
Villejuif–Paul Vaillant-Couturier () is a station of the Paris Métro, located on Line 7. It serves the commune of Villejuif. History It was opened when Line 7 was extended from Le Kremlin-Bicêtre to Villejuif–Louis Aragon on 28 February 1985. It is named after the ''Avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier'' and the former mayor of Villejuif, Paul Vaillant-Couturier (1892–1937) who was a journalist, politician and editor of the Communist newspaper '' L’Humanité''. In 2021, usage of the station gradually increased, with 1,764,879 passengers during the year. This made it the 200th most used metro station. Passenger services Access The station has three entrances: * Access 1 ''Boulevard Maxime-Gorki/Rue Jean-Baptiste-Clément'', with a fixed staircase; * Access 2 ''Boulevard Maxime-Gorki/Rue Condorcet'', on the even numbers side, with a fixed staircase and an escalator. This entrance is indicated by a mast surmounted by a yellow M logo; * Access 3 ''Maxim Gorky Boulevard'', wi ...
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Bobigny–Pablo Picasso Station
Bobigny–Pablo Picasso () is the northern Train station, terminus of Paris Métro Line 5, Line 5 of the Paris Métro, as well as a stop on Île-de-France tramway Line 1. Also, it will be a station on Paris Metro Line 15 in the future. The metro station was opened in 1985, followed by the tram stop seven years later. The name refers to the Communes of France, commune of Bobigny and to Rue Pablo Picasso, named after the Spanish modern artist Pablo Picasso. In 2013, the station was used by 7,135,266 passengers, which makes it the 38th busiest of the Métro network, out of 302 stations. In 2020, the station was used by 4,752,569 passengers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the 20th busiest of the Métro network, out of 305 stations. Passenger services Access The station has 4 entrances: * Access 1: Hôtel de Ville * Access 2: Palais de Justice * Access 3: Rue Carnot * Access 4: Prefecture Station layout Platforms The station has, as does Porte de Pantin (Paris Métro), ...
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