Saint-Jacques (Paris Métro)

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Saint-Jacques

Date opened

1906

Accesses

Municipality/
Arrondissement

Paris 14e

Fare zone

Next stations

Paris Métro Line 6
Direction Charles de Gaulle-Étoile	Direction Nation
Denfert-Rochereau	Glacière

List of stations of the Paris Métro

Location of Metro station

Saint-Jacques is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Place Saint-Jacques. The Boulevard Saint-Jacques and the Rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques also intersect the square. It is one of only a few Metro stations that have a combined entrance and ticket hall at street-level.

[edit] History

Before the Romans reached the area, the road now known as the Rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques, was a well-used track. It became the Roman road to Aurelianum (Orleans) and was called the Via Superior. It became the central street (the cardo maximus) of Lutetia, the Roman city, which was in the current Latin Quarter (in the vicinity of the Jardin du Luxembourg and the Panthéon).

In the Middle Ages it became known as the Grand-Rue-Oultre-Petit-Pont (the great road beyond the Petit Pont, which connects the Île de la Cité to the Left Bank of the Seine).

In about 1230, the street took its current name referring to the pilgimage route that left Paris for Santiago de Compostela from the church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie (demolished in 1802 — its remains are the Tour Saint-Jacob near Châtelet station) by the streets of Rue Saint-Jacques, Rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques and Rue de la Tombe-Issoire.