Dupleix (Paris Métro)

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Dupleix
 
Date opened 1906
Accesses
Municipality/
Arrondissement
Paris 15e
Fare zone 1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 6
Direction
Charles de Gaulle-Étoile
Direction
Nation
Bir-Hakeim La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle
List of stations of the Paris Métro

Dupleix is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Place Dupleix, a square commemorating Joseph François Dupleix, marquis of Landrecies (1697) and Paris (1763), an administrator and colonizer of India. He was appointed Governor General of the French East India Company in 1742, and he developed France trading position in India and fought against English influence. In spite of the Treaty of Aachen (1748), he established a French protectorate in the south of the Deccan, which the English destroyed after his recall to France in 1754. He had invested all his fortune in India, which was never refunded to him.


Paris Métro Line 6

Charles de Gaulle — Étoile  1 2 A • Kléber • Boissière • Trocadéro  9 • Passy • Bir-Hakeim • Dupleix • La Motte-Picquet — Grenelle  8 10 • Cambronne • Sèvres — Lecourbe • Pasteur  12 • Montparnasse — Bienvenüe  4 12 13 • Edgar Quinet • Raspail  4 • Denfert-Rochereau  4 B • Saint-Jacques • Glacière • Corvisart • Place d'Italie  5 7 • Nationale • Chevaleret • Quai de la Gare • Bercy  14 • Dugommier • Daumesnil  8 • Bel-Air • Picpus • Nation  1 2 9 A