Jacques Bonsergent () is a

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of the

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, serving line 5 and located in the

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History

The station was opened on 17 December 1906 as the northern terminus of Line 5 from

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, replacing the temporary terminus of Quai de la Rapée, before the line was extended to

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on 15 November 1907. The stations original name of Lancry is after proximity to the Rue de Lancry and its former local owner, Sieur Lancry. The station kept that name until 1946. The current name refers to the Place Jacques Bonsergent, named after

Jacques Bonsergent Jacques Bonsergent was a French people, French engineer who was executed by firing squad on 23 December 1940, age 28. Bonsergent's execution has been described as the first execution of a French civilian in German military administration in occup ...

, an engineer who became the first Parisian (and possibly first French) civilian executed by the German occupation in 1940. Bonsergent was born at

Malestroit Malestroit (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. The town is on the river Oust and part of the Nantes-Brest canal. It has several half-timbered houses. Population Tourism Malestroit is on the N ...

, in 1912 and was condemned to death by a German military tribunal on 5 December 1940 after being accused, and found guilty, of an act of violence against German soldiers during the night of 10 November. The execution was carried out on 23 December 1940 at the

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; the commanding officer was Général

Otto von Stülpnagel Otto Edwin von Stülpnagel (16 June 1878 – 6 February 1948) was a German military commander of occupied France during the Second World War. Arrested by Allied authorities after the war, he committed suicide in prison in 1948. Career Otto von ...

. Bonsergent's remains lie in the cemetery at Malestroit, Brittany.

Service for travellers

Access

The station has two access points, each consisting of a fixed staircase: * Access 1 - Boulevard de Magenta / Place Jacques-Bonsergent - embellished with a mast with a yellow "M" in a circle; * Access 2 - cnr. Rue de Lancry / Boulevard de Magenta, adorned with a Dervaux candelabrum.

Station layout

Platforms

Jacques Bonsergent station has a standard configuration. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. The decor is the style used for most of the metro stations. The lighting strips are white and rounded in the ''Gaudin'' style of the metro revival in the 2000s, and the white ceramic tiles cover the walls, the tunnel exits, and the outlets of the corridors, while the vault is painted white. The advertising frames are metallic, and the station name is written both in

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. I ...

typeface and in capital letters on enamelled plates. The ''Motte'' style seats are orange. Access is via the south-eastern end.

Bus connections

The station is served by lines 56 and 91 of the RATP Bus Network and, at night, by lines N01 and N02 of the

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network.

References

Paris Métro stations in the 10th arrondissement of Paris Railway stations in France opened in 1906 {{Paris-metro-stub