Louise Michel () is a station on

Paris Métro Line 3 Paris Métro Line 3 (French language, French: ''Ligne 3 du métro de Paris'') is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It connects Pont de Levallois–Bécon (Paris Métro), Pont de Levallois–Bécon station in the near northwestern su ...

. It is located in the commune of

Levallois-Perret Levallois-Perret () is a Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department and Île-de-France Regions of France, region of north-central France. It lies on the right bank of the Seine, some from the Kilometre z ...

, just outside Paris to the northwest.

Location

The station is located about 100 meters from the administrative limit of Paris, under Rue Anatole-France, at the intersection with Rue Louise-Michel. Oriented along a north-west/south-east axis, it is located between the

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History

The station was opened on 24 September 1937 when the line was extended from Porte de Champerret to Pont de Levallois–Bécon. It was originally called ''Vallier'', after a local street. It was renamed on 1 May 1946 to "

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" in honour of the French

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and communarde, who is buried in the local cemetery. The station is the fifth in a series of six in the network to have been given a name of a woman, after Barbès-Rochechouart (lines 2 and 4), Madeleine (lines 8, 12 and 14), Chardon-Lagache (line 10) and

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(line 8); followed by the Pierre-et-Marie Curie station (line 7), and pending the future stations Barbara (line 4) and Bagneux-Lucie Aubrac (lines 4 and 15). Like a third of the stations in the network, between 1974 and 1984, the platforms were modernized in the ''Andreu-Motte'' style, in this case red in color with flat white tiles. As part of the RATP's ''Renouveau du métro'' project, the corridors were renovated on 27 July 2002. In 2018, 3,807,962 passengers entered this station, which places it at the 138th position of the metro stations for its usage.

Passenger services

Access

The station has two entrances: * entrance 1 - ''Rue Louise-Michel'' found at ground level at no. 30 (rare case in the metro network), on the corner with rue Anatole-France; * entrance 2 - ''Rue Anatole-France'', consisting of an escalator allowing an exit only to the even numbers side of the street.

Station layout

Platforms

Louise Michel 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 red light canopies, benches covered with flat red tiles and red ''Motte'' seats. These arrangements are combined with the flat white ceramic tiles that cover the walls, the vault and the tunnel exits. The corridor outlets 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. The station is distinguished by its platforms widths which are less than the standard configuration due to the narrowness of the street under which it was established, as well as by the lower part of its walls which, consequently, are vertical and not elliptical.

Bus connections

The station is served at night by lines N16 and N52 of the

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bus network.

References

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

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