Denfert-Rochereau (Paris Métro and RER)

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Denfert-Rochereau

Date opened

1906

Accesses

2, pl. Denfert-Rochereau
3, pl. Denfert-Rochereau
1, av. du Général Leclerc
2, av. du Général Leclerc
4, av. du Général Leclerc

Municipality/
Arrondissement

Paris 14e

Fare zone

Next stations

Paris Métro Line 4
Direction Porte de Clignancourt	Direction Porte d'Orleans
Raspail	Mouton-Duvernet
Paris Métro Line 6
Direction Charles de Gaulle-Étoile	Direction Nation
Raspail	Saint-Jacques

List of stations of the Paris Métro

Denfert-Rochereau is a station on the Paris Métro and RER systems.

Formerly it was a terminus of the Ligne de Sceaux, a surface suburban railway. It was rebuilt as an underground station, though the original station building survives and has been restored.

Its name refers to Place Denfert-Rochereau, named for the 19th-century general Pierre Denfert-Rochereau, who led the resistance of Belfort to a siege during the Franco-Prussian War. The name change would have been easy to remember as the square had been previously called Place d'Enfer.

Paris Métro

Line 4

Porte de Clignancourt • Simplon • Marcadet — Poissonniers ⇒ 12 • Château Rouge • Barbès — Rochechouart ⇒ 2 • Gare du Nord ⇒ 5 B D E • Gare de l'Est ⇒ 5 7 • Château d'Eau • Strasbourg — Saint-Denis ⇒ 8 9 • Réaumur — Sébastopol • Étienne Marcel • Les Halles ⇒ A B D • Châtelet ⇒ 1 7 11 14 • Cité • Saint-Michel ⇒ B C • Odéon ⇒ 10 • Saint-Germain-des-Prés • Saint-Sulpice • Saint-Placide • Montparnasse — Bienvenüe ⇒ 6 12 13 • Vavin • Raspail ⇒ 6 • Denfert-Rochereau ⇒ 6 B • Mouton-Duvernet • Alésia • Porte d'Orléans