Daumesnil (Paris Métro)

Daumesnil

Paris Métro station

Line 6 platforms at Daumesnil

Location

12th arrondissement of Paris
Île-de-France
France

Coordinates

48°50′23″N 2°23′45″E / 48.839644°N 2.395792°ECoordinates: 48°50′23″N 2°23′45″E / 48.839644°N 2.395792°E

Owned by

RATP

Operated by

RATP

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

1 March 1909

Services

Preceding station		Paris Métro		Following station
Dugommier toward Charles de Gaulle – Étoile				Bel-Air toward Nation
Montgallet toward Balard				Michel Bizot toward Créteil - Pointe du Lac

Location

Daumesnil

Location within Paris

Daumesnil is a station on lines 6 and 8 of the Paris Métro in the 12th arrondissement.

The station opened on 1 March 1909 with the opening of the original section of line 6 from Place d'Italie to Nation (although part of line 5—some dating back to 2 October 1900—was incorporated into line 6 on 12 October 1942). The line 8 platforms opened on 5 May 1931 with the extension of the line from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton.

It is named after the Avenue Daumesnil, which honours General Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil (1776–1832) who lost a leg at the Battle of Wagram. This station is near the Place Félix Éboué and its name plates refer to Félix Éboué (1884–1944), who brought Chad over to the Free French Forces in 1940, and as a result was made Governor General of French Equatorial Africa. It was the location of the Barrière de Reuilly, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished during in the nineteenth century.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Nearby is the Promenade Plantée—a 4.5 km long elevated garden along the abandoned railway which led to the former Gare de La Bastille railway station.

Gallery

Line 8 platforms at Daumesnil

Station layout

Street Level

B1	Mezzanine for platform connection

Line 6 platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	toward Charles de Gaulle – Étoile	← toward Charles de Gaulle – Étoile (Dugommier)
	toward Nation	→ toward Nation (Bel-Air) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Line 8 platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	toward Balard	← toward Balard (Montgallet)
	toward Pointe du Lac	→ toward Pointe du Lac (Michel Bizot) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

References

↑ "Barrière de Reuilly, picture" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
↑ "Barrière de Reuilly, picture" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
↑ "Barrière de Reuilly" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 19 December 2009.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Daumesnil (Paris Metro).

	Paris Métro	Line 6
Charles de Gaulle – Étoile Kléber Boissière Trocadéro Passy Bir-Hakeim Dupleix La Motte-Picquet – Grenelle Cambronne Sèvres – Lecourbe Pasteur Montparnasse – Bienvenüe Edgar Quinet Raspail Denfert-Rochereau Saint-Jacques Glacière Corvisart Place d'Italie Nationale Chevaleret Quai de la Gare Bercy Dugommier Daumesnil Bel-Air Picpus Nation

	Paris Métro	Line 8
Balard Lourmel Boucicaut Félix Faure Commerce La Motte-Picquet – Grenelle École Militaire La Tour-Maubourg Invalides Concorde Madeleine Opéra Richelieu – Drouot Grands Boulevards Bonne Nouvelle Strasbourg – Saint-Denis République Filles du Calvaire Saint-Sébastien – Froissart Chemin Vert Bastille Ledru-Rollin Faidherbe – Chaligny Reuilly – Diderot Montgallet Daumesnil Michel Bizot Porte Dorée Porte de Charenton Liberté Charenton – Écoles École Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort Maisons-Alfort – Stade Maisons-Alfort – Les Juilliottes Créteil – L'Échat Créteil – Université Créteil – Préfecture Pointe du Lac

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