Duroc (Paris Métro)

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Duroc
Date opened	1923
Accesses
Municipality/ Arrondissement	Paris 7e
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 10 Direction Boulogne-Pont de Saint-Cloud Direction Gare d'Austerlitz Ségur Vaneau Paris Métro Line 13 Direction Gabriel Péri or Saint-Denis Direction Châtillon-Montrouge Saint-François-Xavier Montparnasse - Bienvenüe
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of Metro station

Duroc is a station of the Paris Métro, and is named after Geraud Duroc, Duke of Friuli (1772–1813), who was one of Napoleon Bonaparte's Generals.

[edit] History

Line 10, east of Duroc to Croix Rouge (a station east of Sèvres - Babylone, which was closed during World War II), and Line 13, north of Duroc to Invalides, were opened on 30 December 1923 as part of the ligne circulaire interieur (inner circular line), which was planned by Fulgence Bienvenüe to connect the city's six main railway stations. On 27 July 1937, the section from Duroc to Invalides was transferred to old line 14, which was incorporated into Line 13 on 9 November 1976.

The station is located close to the location of an old toll gate on the road to Sèvres, part of the Wall of the Farmers-General, which was built around Paris between 1784 and 1791 by the Ferme générale company of tax farmers.

Paris Métro

Line 10

Boulogne — Pont de Saint-Cloud • Boulogne — Jean Jaurès ⇔ Eastbound → Michel-Ange — Molitor ⇒ 9 • Chardon Lagache • Mirabeau → Westbound ← Porte d'Auteuil • Michel-Ange — Auteuil ⇒ 9 • Église d'Auteuil ← ⇔ Javel — André Citroën • Charles Michels • Avenue Émile Zola • La Motte-Picquet — Grenelle ⇒ 6 8 • Ségur • Duroc ⇒ 13 • Vaneau • Sèvres — Babylone ⇒ 12 • Mabillon • Odéon ⇒ 4 • Cluny — La Sorbonne ⇒ B C • Maubert — Mutualité • Cardinal Lemoine • Jussieu ⇒ 7 • Gare d'Austerlitz ⇒ 5 C

Paris Métro

Line 13

Northwest branch Gabriel Péri — Asnières — Gennevilliers • Mairie de Clichy • Porte de Clichy ⇒ C • Brochant North branch Saint-Denis — Université • Basilique de Saint-Denis • Saint-Denis — Porte de Paris • Carrefour Pleyel • Mairie de Saint-Ouen • Garibaldi • Porte de Saint-Ouen • Guy Môquet ⊃   La Fourche • Place de Clichy ⇒ 2 • Liège • Saint-Lazare ⇒ 3 12 14 E • Miromesnil ⇒ 9 • Champs-Élysées — Clemenceau ⇒ 1 • Invalides ⇒ 8 C • Varenne • Saint-François-Xavier • Duroc ⇒ 10 • Montparnasse — Bienvenüe ⇒ 4 6 12 • Gaîté • Pernety • Plaisance • Porte de Vanves • Malakoff — Plateau de Vanves • Malakoff — Rue Étienne Dolet • Châtillon — Montrouge