Porte Dauphine

Porte Dauphine Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
The Art Nouveau aedicule at the Porte Dauphine station, designed by Hector Guimard.
Date opened	12 December 1900 (1900)
Accesses	boul. de l'Amiral Bruix × Av. Foch Av. Foch × av. Bugeaud Av. Bugeaud × av. Foch Av. Bugeaud × boul. Lannes
Municipality/ Arrondissement	the 16th arrondissement of Paris
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 2 Direction Porte Dauphine Direction Nation Terminus Victor Hugo
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of metro station

Porte Dauphine (Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny) is a station of the Paris Métro. It is the western terminus of Line 2. Nearby, one can transfer to the RER C at Avenue Foch station (with no direct transfer). Paris Dauphine University is nearby.

The station contains one of the only two remaining aedicules originally designed by Hector Guimard (1867–1942), the Art Nouveau architect who was originally commissioned by the Compagnie du Métropolitain de Paris (CMP) in 1899 to design the entrances for the Métropolitain stations. (The other is at Abbesses.)

History

The Porte Dauphine station was inaugurated on 13 December 1900. At the time, Line 2 had only been completed as far as Charles de Gaulle—Étoile. It now runs from Porte Dauphine around the northern part of Paris, through Montmartre, around to its eastern terminus at the Place de la Nation. It is named after Porte Dauphine, a gate in the nineteenth century Thiers wall of Paris. Its subtititle honours Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny.

Gallery

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  Island platform at Porte Dauphine

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  MF 2000 rolling stock arriving at Porte Dauphine

See also

• List of stations of the Paris Métro