As we go back and forth, their names are familiar to us.
They are a landmark, indicate a meeting point, correspondence.
We know the Paris metro stations by heart.
What we know less, however, is the origin of their names.
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Thanks to the Universal Exhibition of 1900, the project of an underground railway network in the Capital, matured since 1895 by Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852-1936), materialized.
The first Porte de Vincennes-Porte Maillot metro line was born.
Reuilly, Saint-Paul, Marbeuf, Alma… Taken from the names of streets, avenues and boulevards under which the stations are located, these terms observe a new echo, indicates Pierre Miquel in
A little history of metro stations
(1993).
As it develops, the metropolitan constellation pays tribute to the great figures and events that have marked the history of France.
It also contains anecdotes.
For example, apart from celebrating the "father of the metro" in the second part of its name since 1942, the "Montparnasse-Bienvenüe" station takes its name from the district in which it takes place.
According to legend, young people from the Latin Quarter, who, because they came to meet on its land to declaim poems there, decided one day to give it the title of "Mount Parnassus".
That is to say: the residence of the muses of Greek mythology.
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