Porte d'Orléans (Paris Métro)

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Porte d'Orléans Général Leclerc
Date opened	1909
Accesses	Av. Ernest Reyer × av. du Général Leclerc (three) 140, av. du Général Leclerc 134, boul. Brune 108, boul. Jourdan 117, boul. Jourdan Rue de la Légion Étrangère × Av. Ernest Reyer
Municipality/ Arrondissement	Paris 14e
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 4 Direction Porte de Clignancourt Direction Porte d'Orleans Alésia Terminus
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of Metro station

Porte d'Orléans (Général Leclerc) is a station of the Paris Métro, currently the southern terminus of line 4. It is situated in the 14th Arrondissement, in the quartier of Petit-Montrouge.

The station is named for its position at the Porte d'Orléans, the beginning of the road from Paris to Orléans (route nationale 20, or N20). Its subtitle is for the World War II general Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque, known by his nom de guerre of Général Leclerc. On August 25, 1944, Leclerc entered Paris via the Porte d'Orléans with tanks of the 2nd armed division, on his way to liberate Paris from the German occupation.

A memorial to Leclerc is near the station, between Rue de la Légion Étrangère and Avenue de la Porte-d'Orléans. On the west side of Rue de la Légion Étrangère is Square du Serment-de-Koufra, a park commemorating a pledge made by Leclerc on March 2, 1941, the day after taking the Italian fort at Kufra, Libya: he swore that his weapons would not be laid down until the French flag flew over the cathedrals of Metz and of Strasbourg.

The station lies just on the Parisian side of the border with Montrouge, the neighbouring commune. Around 2010, Line 4 will be extended south into Montrouge, and then toward Bagneux. That should reduce bus traffic around the Porte d'Orléans.

[edit] External links

• Map of the Porte d'Orléans
• History, from a site maintained by the drivers of bus route 38
• Another photograph
• Le Monument Porte d'Orléans (photos with text in French)

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 ⇒ 3 • 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