Barbès – Rochechouart (Paris Métro)

Barbès – Rochechouart
Barbès – Rochechouart
	Paris Métro station
	Line 4 platforms
Location	Boul. de la Chapelle × Boul. Magenta; Boul. de la Chapelle × Boul. Barbès; 1, Boul. Rochechouart; 2, Boul. Rochechouart; 45, Boul. de la Chapelle; 9th, 10th and 18th arrondissement of Paris; Île-de-France; France
Coordinates	48°53′01″N 2°21′02″E
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	31 January 1903 (Line 2); 21 April 1908 (Line 4)
Previous names	Barbès (1903-1907)
Services
Location
	Barbès – Rochechouart Location within Paris

Barbès – Rochechouart (French pronunciation: [baʁbɛs ʁɔʃəʃwaʁ]) is a station on Line 2 and Line 4 of the Paris Métro. Situated at the location where the 9th, 10th and 18th arrondissements all share a border point, the station is at the junction of Boulevard Barbès, named for the revolutionary, Armand Barbès, the Boulevard de Rochechouart, named for the abbess, Marguerite de Rochechouart, Boulevard de la Chapelle and Boulevard de Magenta.

The station is the former location of the Barrière Poissonnière, a gate in the Wall of the Farmers-General built for the collection of excise taxes (the octroi). The gate was built between 1784 and 1788, and it was demolished in the nineteenth century.

History

The elevated Line 2 station was opened on 31 January 1903 as Boulevard Barbès station, as part of the extension of Line 2 from Anvers to Bagnolet'(now called Alexandre Dumas). It was renamed to its current name eight days later. Line 2 descends into a tunnel to the west of the station. The underground Line 4 station was opened on 21 April 1908 as part of the first section of the line from Châtelet to Porte de Clignancourt.

The disastrous fire of 10 August 1903 that resulted in eighty deaths at Couronnes station began at Barbès – Rochechouart. During World War II, on 21 August 1941, Pierre Georges and three companions of the French Resistance shot and killed a German naval cadet named Alfons Moser when he was boarding a train at the Barbès station at eight in the morning. The killing was in revenge for the execution of Samuel Tyszelman for taking part in an anti-German demonstration.[1] This was the start of a series of assassinations and reprisals that resulted in five hundred French hostages being executed in the next few months.[2]

Station layout

Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Westbound	← toward Porte Dauphine (Anvers)
	Eastbound	→ toward Nation (La Chapelle) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

1F	Mezzanine for Line 2 platform connection

Street Level

B1	Mezzanine for Line 4 platform connection

Line 4 platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Porte de Clignancourt (Château Rouge)
	Southbound	→ toward Mairie de Montrouge (Gare du Nord) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Gallery

Entrance under Line 2 viaduct

References

"Ce jeudi 21 août 1941, 8 heures". L'Humanité. 23 August 1994. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
Hansen, Randall (2014). Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie. Oxford University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-19-992792-0. Retrieved 6 June 2015.

Roland, Gérard (2003). Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram. Éditions Bonneton.

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[1] "Ce jeudi 21 août 1941, 8 heures". L'Humanité. 23 August 1994. Retrieved 6 June 2015.

[2] Hansen, Randall (2014). Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie. Oxford University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-19-992792-0. Retrieved 6 June 2015.