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Date opened | 1 March 1909 | ||||||
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the 12th arrondissement of Paris | ||||||
Fare zone | 1 | ||||||
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Picpus is a station on line 6 of the Paris Métro in the 12th arrondissement. The station is located under the Avenue de Saint-Mandé, to the west of the crossroads with the Boulevard de Picpus. There is only one access, located on the southern side of the Avenue de Saint-Mandé.
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The station was opened on 1 March 1909 as Saint-Mandé with the extension of the line from Place d'Italie to Nation. It is named after the district of Picpus and the Boulevard de Picpus. It was renamed Picpus on 1 March 1937 to avoid confusion with Saint-Mandé on line 1. The station has the additional name of Courteline, named after author Georges Courteline (1858-1929). It was the location of the Barrière de Saint-Mandé, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished during in the nineteenth century.[1][2][3]
Paris Métro | Line 6 |
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Charles de Gaulle — Étoile • Kléber • Boissière • Trocadéro • Passy • Bir-Hakeim • Dupleix • La Motte-Picquet — Grenelle • Cambronne • Sèvres — Lecourbe • Pasteur • Montparnasse — Bienvenüe • Edgar Quinet • Raspail • Denfert-Rochereau • Saint-Jacques • Glacière • Corvisart • Place d'Italie • Nationale • Chevaleret • Quai de la Gare • Bercy • Dugommier • Daumesnil • Bel-Air • Picpus • Nation |