Alma - Marceau (Paris Métro)

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Alma - Marceau
Date opened	1923
Accesses
Municipality/ Arrondissement	Paris 8e
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 9 Direction Pont de Sèvres Direction Mairie de Montreuil Iéna Franklin D. Roosevelt
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of Metro station

Alma - Marceau is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Pont de l'Alma (Alma Bridge) and Avenue Marceau.

The Battle of Alma was a Franco-British victory against the Russians in the Crimean War in 1854. General François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers (1769–1796) fought the Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.

[edit] Places of interest

The Flame of Liberty sits above the entrance to the Paris tunnel in which would claim the life of Diana, Princess of Wales

• The Flame of Liberty, a counterpart to the flame of the Statue of Liberty was placed in the Place d'Alma in 1987.
• Diana, Princess of Wales died as a result of a car crash in the tunnel under the Pont d'Alma in 1997.
• The sculpture of a Zouave is attached to the upstream side of the Pont de l'Alma. Parisians measure the depth of floods by noting the proportion of the statue that is under water.
• Near the station are the cabaret of the Crazy Horse Saloon and the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris in the Palais de Tokyo.
• The Place d'Alma is at the western end of the Cours Albert Ier et Cours La Reine, which contain some statues commemorating characters symbolising the relations between France and other countries.
• The starting point of visits to the Paris sewers in the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower is on the left bank of the Seine.

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