16-412: Louise Michel ( French pronunciation: [lwiz miʃɛl] ) is a station on Paris Métro Line 3 . It is located in the commune of Levallois-Perret , just outside Paris to the northwest. 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
32-572: A length of 11.7 km (7 mi), Line 3 crosses Paris from west to east completely on the Rive Droite , serving the residential areas of the 17th arrondissement , the Gare Saint-Lazare , important stores and shopping centres, the area around the Place de l'Opéra , as well as the east of the city, around République station. In 2017, it carried 101.4 million riders, making it the tenth busiest line of
48-532: A public utility for "the construction of a metropolitan railway by electric traction, intended for the transport of the travelers and their hand luggage". The General Traction Company formed the CMP in April 1898. Construction started under the responsibility of engineer Fulgence Bienvenüe . Line 1 was opened in 1900 after twenty months of work. Another line, Porte Dauphine-Nation (now Line 2), opened in April 1903. In 1929,
64-533: 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
80-478: Is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro . It connects Pont de Levallois–Bécon station in the near northwestern suburbs to Gallieni in the east. After opening as the network's third line in 1904, it was the subject of a number of extensions, with a major restructuring occurring in the eastern section in 1971, with an extension to Gallieni and the conversion of the original terminal branch to Line 3bis . With
96-463: 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 Boucicaut (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
112-507: The Anatole France and Porte de Champerret stations. 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 " Louise Michel " in honour of the French anarchist and communarde , who is buried in the local cemetery. The station
128-552: The Line 3 was to cross a number of Métro lines, particularly at Opéra, where a special pit was built to house the intersection of Lines 3, 7, and 8. This masonry pit was 20 m (66 ft) and constructed fully so as to avoid any problems when building subsequent lines. Since the work was situated at the water table, it required concrete pillars made by sinking caissons with compressed air. The work lasted eleven months, from March 1903 to February 1904. Another difficult point of construction
144-540: The Métro network. The infrastructure works for Line 3 were auctioned off in six sections on 24 May 1902. The concession was granted to the CMP by the municipal government of Paris on 13 March 1903, but the declaration of public utility was only granted on 26 February 1907. The works were rendered difficult due to the necessary displacement of existing underground infrastructure such as water, gas, and electricity lines, but also because
160-607: The approach of the World Fair of 1900 speeded the decisions. In 1895, Louis Barthou , minister for public works, accepted that the construction work should be carried out by the city. That included building the tunnels, viaducts and stations and contracting for the operation. In 1897 the city council chose the General Traction Company, owned by the Belgian Baron Édouard Louis Joseph Empain . An act of 30 March 1898 declared
176-776: The company merged with the Company of the North-South underground electric railroad of Paris. In 1938, the CMP took over the Sceaux line , which had until then formed part of the Paris-Orleans railway company. In 1942, the company amalgamated with the Company of public transport of the Paris area which was limited to surface transport. The files of the company were destroyed at the Liberation of Paris . In 1949
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#1733106966054192-631: The name of the station is written in Parisine 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. The station is served at night by lines N16 and N52 of the Noctilien bus network. Paris M%C3%A9tro Line 3 Paris Métro Line 3 ( French : Ligne 3 du métro de Paris )
208-466: 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. The station has two entrances: Louise Michel
224-523: The outside. Although no funded plans for an extension of Line 3 currently exist, Line 3bis may be merged with Line 7bis to form a new line, possibly named Line 20 , which Line 3 would then connect to. A western extension of Line 3 to Bécon-les-Bruyères has also been proposed. Line 3 passes near several places of interest : Compagnie du chemin de fer m%C3%A9tropolitain de Paris The Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris S.A. ( Paris Metropolitan Railway Company Ltd. ), or CMP ,
240-595: Was a subsidiary of the Empain group that is the forerunner of the RATP , the company managing the Paris Métro . So as not to be dependent on the Chemin de fer de l'État (State Railways) for its rail transport, the City of Paris decided in 1883 on the construction of a subway network. There were some tensions between the national government and the city for the control of the operation, but
256-550: Was the crossing of the Canal Saint-Martin . To build underneath it, the canal was dried and its vault suspended. In the area of the Place Gambetta, because of the instability of the subsoil, which consisted of waterlogged sand balls, made it necessary to drain the soil, a very delicate operation considering the number of buildings that could be destabilised. Then the side walls were built from masonry shafts that are dark from
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