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31-601: The two lines are the busiest lines in the Transilien system, excluding lines signed as part of the RER . The trains on Line J travel between Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris and the north-west of Île-de-France region, with termini in Ermont–Eaubonne , Gisors and Vernon . The line has a total of 260,000 passengers per weekday. Line J utilises four-letter codes, called a mission code or

62-536: A book as she sits facing us in front of an iron fence; a young girl to her left views the railroad track and steam beyond it. At the time of its first exhibition it was caricatured and the subject of ridicule. Gustave Caillebotte also lived just a short walk away from the station. He painted Le Pont de l’Europe (The Bridge of Europe) in 1876 (now in the Petit Palais, Musée d’Art Moderne in Geneva, Switzerland) and On

93-679: A charter to Fontenelle Abbey which included territory in Aupec - the modern Le Pecq. On 31 May 1875, a part of Le Pecq was detached and merged with parts of Chatou and Croissy-sur-Seine to create the commune of Le Vésinet . The town in Le Pecq is notable for being the town of residence of Alain Gournac: Senator of the Yvelines for the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) since 1995. A. Gournac also occupied

124-503: Is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France . It is located in the western suburbs of Paris , 18.4 km (11.4 mi) from the center of Paris . The commune of Le Pecq is located in a loop of the Seine river, 19 km (12 mi) west of Paris , at the foot of the chateau of Saint-Germain-en-Laye . Le Pecq's territory is astride

155-841: Is being chased by Police Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon ( Jean Reno ) while trying to board a train south to Cannes (which is an inaccuracy since the Gare Saint-Lazare serves the North-West of France; trains for Cannes depart from the Gare de Lyon ). The Gare Saint-Lazare is served by regional TER Normandie trains toward Normandy, as well as regional Transilien trains to the western suburbs of Paris. 1,600 trains serve Gare Saint-Lazare every day. The following regional train services operate out of Saint-Lazare: The following Transilien lines depart from Saint-Lazare: Le Pecq Le Pecq ( French pronunciation: [lə pɛk] )

186-408: Is in use throughout Line L. These codes do not display on trains, but they are displayed on passenger information display systems . The destination of the train is indicated by the first letter. The train type is indicated by the second letter. The route taken to the destination is indicated by the third letter. The fourth letter has no meaning, but it acts as a "padding" letter in order to make

217-403: Is where painting is today…our artists have to find the poetry in train station, the way their fathers found the poetry in forests and rivers". "Monet’s work on the Gare Saint-Lazare is unparalleled in its evocation of steam and the smoke-filled station. In spite of the impressionist style, the work reproduces accurately the topography of the area, even allowing one to deduce the precise point where

248-575: The Paris–Le Havre railway . Saint-Lazare is the third busiest station in France, after the Gare du Nord and Gare de Lyon . It handles 290,000 passengers each day. The current station building opened in 1889 and was designed by architect Juste Lisch ; the maître d'œuvre (general contractor) was Eugène Flachat . The first station at Saint Lazare was 200 metres (656 ft) northwest of its current position, called Embarcadère des Batignolles . The station

279-455: The Seine at the Le Pecq bridge. This bridge was built in 1963. It has of flattened steel arches resting on two central concrete piers. Le Pecq is not served by the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Le Pecq is Le Vésinet – Le Pecq station on Paris RER line A . This station is located in the neighboring commune of Le Vésinet , 1.2 km (0.75 mi) from

310-410: The name of service . The four-letter code begins with a letter that designates the terminus of the station. The first letter designates the train's destination. The second, third and fourth letters indicate the stations served by the train. Formerly, the second letter was used to designate the train type ( I for express trains, A for semi-express trains, O for local trains), but this is no longer

341-519: The 1870s and 1880s. Édouard Manet lived close by, at 4 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg. Two years after moving to the area he showed his painting The Railway , (also known as Gare Saint-Lazare ) at the Paris Salon in 1874. Painted from the backyard of a friend's house on the nearby rue de Rome, this canvas, now in the National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C., portrays a woman with a small dog and

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372-527: The 1960s. On 21 March 2012, a new three-level shopping mall with 80 shops opened inside the passenger hall. The Gare Saint-Lazare is situated in the 8th arrondissement , in a very dense business and shopping area of Paris. The Gare Saint-Lazare has been represented in a number of artworks. It attracted artists during the Impressionist period and many of them lived very close to the Gare St-Lazare during

403-628: The Gare Saint Lazare were Jean Béraud , who painted The Place and Pont de l'Europe in 1876-78 and Norbert Goeneutte (1854–1894), with a studio providing a very good view of the Pont de l'Europe, who painted this scene many times in the late 1880s. One of these is The Pont de l'Europe and Gare Saint-Lazare from circa 1888 (in the Baltimore Museum). An engraving showing the Place de l'Europe bridge at

434-465: The Gare Saint-Lazare train station was one of his most famous series in his lifetime. Monet was one of the most important and influential painters in the Impressionist movement in the 19th century. He was a strong proponent of plein-air landscape painting. Artists such as Gustave Caillebotte , Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot , do this in order to accurately portray the scene in the moment instead of creating

465-622: The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., put on an exhibition called "Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare". The Gare Saint-Lazare is mentioned or plays a role in Émile Zola 's La Bête humaine and Roland Sadaune's Terminus St-Lazare . The Gare Saint-Lazare is seen in the 1995 film French Kiss with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan . It is the last scene in Paris where Kevin Kline's character

496-407: The Pont de l'Europe in 1876-80 (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth). While the former picture looks across the bridge with the ironworks diagonally crossing the picture to the right, with a scene of partially interacting figures on the bridge to the left, the latter depicts the iron structure of the bridge face-on in a strong close-up of its industrial geometry, with three male figures to the left side of

527-403: The artist was standing while painting. This is the first time an artist had showed a single theme through a series of variations" The Gare Saint-Lazare itself, a monument to the last word in state-of-the-art transportation, the railroad. Le Quartier de l'Europe, where artists like Claude Monet and Gustave Caillebotte spent a lot of time and painted was, in short, a paradigm of modern Paris;

558-615: The case (but most all stops trains of Line J keep the O as the second letter). The third letter was also used to designate the route taken to the destination (for example C as a third letter indicates "via Conflans Sainte-Honorine"), but this is now abolished along with the second letter. Typically, mission codes or the name of services of line J have the following composition of destination , vowel , consonant , vowel ( C A R A , G E N E , M O L E , P A L E , T O C A , etc.) but only four codes follow

589-472: The code pronounceable. Gare Saint-Lazare The Gare Saint-Lazare ( French pronunciation: [ɡaʁ sɛ̃ lazaʁ] ; lit.   ' Saint Lazarus station ' ), officially Paris Saint Lazare , is one of the seven large mainline railway station terminals in Paris , France . It was the first train station built in Paris, opening in 1837. It mostly serves train services to western suburbs, as well as intercity services toward Normandy using

620-425: The forward-looking young artists who called it home, and who had consciously dedicated themselves to the interpretation of modern life, included in their work recognizable references to their neighborhood as a sign of both their commitment to the present, with all its irregularities and "unaesthetic" components, and their rejection of the past, with its Academy-sanctioned conventions. Lesser-known artists who depicted

651-560: The function of Mayor of the town between 1991 and 2013, year in which, following legislature forbidding Senators from also holding the title of Mayor, he was made to resign, leaving his seat to Laurence Bernard, also a member of the UMP. The main transportation links in Le Pecq are the N13 which runs on the left bank of the Seine and secondary road D 186 connecting Saint-Germain-en-Laye with Paris which crosses

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682-410: The hard-edged discs of the railroad signals hover above a rapidly scribbled swirl of blue and rose clouds of steam, with scrolled white edges, while the sketchy, angular drawing of the tracks and buildings provides contrast. The flat, opaque circle of the largest signal, placed dead center and thickly painted, is so insistent that it turns the picture into a near-abstraction. The Gare Saint-Lazare piece

713-456: The painting all looking in different directions (the Pont de l'Europe is a massive bridge spanning the railyard of the newly expanded station, which at that time had an iron-work trellis). In 1877, painter Claude Monet rented a studio near the Gare Saint Lazare. That same year he exhibited seven paintings of the railway station in an impressionist painting exhibition. He completed 12 paintings of this subject . Oscar-Claude Monet's series of

744-588: The painting from what they could remember. Monet and others who followed the Impressionism Movement were not accepted in the Salon de Paris , because of their rejection of the academies' teachings of form, style, subject matter etc., so instead they decided to open a new exhibition on their own Impressionist Exhibition in April 1874. Claude Monet 's depiction of this train station is an astonishing composition in which

775-474: The pattern of destination , vowel , consonant , consonant ( P A CK , P A NS , T A NS and V E RN ). The trains on Line L travel between Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris and the west of Île-de-France region, with termini in Cergy , Versailles and L'Étang-la-Ville . The line has a total of 290,000 passengers per weekday. A four-letter code system

806-498: The time of its opening in 1868 was made by Auguste Lamy. In 1932, the wasteland behind the station became the subject of one of the most celebrated photographs of all time, Henri Cartier-Bresson 's Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare . In Raymond Queneau 's 1947 book Exercises in Style , the Gare Saint-Lazare serves as the backdrop to much of the story's action. In 1998 the Musée d'Orsay and

837-412: The trains creates a way of dissolving the train and showing the impressionistic style of blending colors and light. Everything dissipates with the steam of the train and turns into a flurry of blended colors. As said by Émile Zola, "Monet is able to turn a normally dirty and gritty place into a peaceful and beautiful scene…You can hear the trains rumbling in, see the smoke billow up under the huge roofs…that

868-468: The two banks of the Seine and includes a small island, Corbière. It is highly urbanized except for Corbière island, which is partially protected as a nesting zone for migratory birds. Until after the Second World War, there were swimming baths on the island. Le Pecq was famous for two other establishments related to water: a spa exploiting springs on St-Germain hill and a natural water swimming pool which

899-462: Was 100 metres long with sand beaches. It borders the communes of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Mareil-Marly in the west, Montesson and Le Mesnil-le-Roi (Carrières-sous-Bois district) to the north, Croissy-sur-Seine and Le Vésinet in the east and Marly-le-Roi and Le Port-Marly to the south. The first mention of Le Pecq came in 704. In that year, the Merovingian king Childebert III granted

930-555: Was opened by Marie-Amélie (wife of Louis-Philippe of France ) on 24 August 1837. The first line served was the single track line to Le Pecq . In 1843 St-Lazare was the terminus for three lines; by 1900 this number had tripled. The station had 14 platforms in 1854 after several enlargements, and now has 27 platforms sorted in six destination groups. On 27 April 1924 the inner suburban lines were electrified with 750 V DC third rail . The same lines were re-electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead wires in

961-475: Was shown at the Third Impressionist Exhibition. The Gare Saint-Lazare is very different from Monet's previous paintings of harbors, boats and oceans that viewers had seen before. The Gare Saint-Lazare series of paintings lead the viewers through a tour of the train station in different points of the day. "Monet exemplifies the modern life, in all its chaos and instability", The steam coming from

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