Owned by RATP Fare zone 1 Opened 7 October 1902 | Operated by RATP Address 75017 Paris, France Owner RATP Group | |
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Location 1, rue de Chazelle
53, boul. de Courcelles
8th arrondissement of Paris
Île-de-France
France Similar Pereire, Malesherbes, Télégraphe, Chemin Vert, Pernety | ||
Courcelles is a station on Paris Métro Line 2, under the Boulevard de Courcelles on the border of the 8th and 17th arrondissement of Paris.
The station was opened on 7 October 1902 as part of the extension of line 2 from Étoile to Anvers. The Boulevard was named after the Barrière de Courcelles, 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 in 1859. The gate was named after a small village in the area that was absorbed into Paris in 1860.
Trivia
Fulgence Bienvenüe, father of the Métro, lived near this station.
References
Courcelles (Paris Métro) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA