Louise Michel (Paris Métro)

Louise Michel (French pronunciation: ​[lwiz miʃɛl]) is a station on Paris Métro Line 3. It is located in the commune of Levallois-Perret, just outside Paris to the northwest.

Louise Michel
Paris Métro station
Location	30, rue Louise Michel Levallois-Perret Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°53′21″N 2°17′17″E
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	2
History
Opened	24 September 1937
Services
Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station Anatole France toward Pont de Levallois – Bécon Porte de Champerret toward Gallieni
Location
Louise Michel Location within Paris

Location

The station is located about 100 meters from the administrative limit of Paris, under Rue Anatole-France, at the intersection with Rue Louise-Michel. Oriented along a north-west/south-east axis, it is located between the Anatole France and Porte de Champerret stations.

History

Above ground entrance

The station was opened on 24 September 1937 when the line was extended from Porte de Champerret to Pont de Levallois – Bécon. It was originally called Vallier, after a mountain (2839m) in the Pyrenees near the Val d'Aran.

It was renamed on 1 May 1946 to "Louise Michel" in honour of the French anarchist and communarde.[1]

The station is the fifth in a series of six in the network to have been given a name of a woman, after Barbès-Rochechouart (lines 2 and 4), Madeleine (lines 8, 12 and 14), Chardon-Lagache (line 10) and Boucicaut (line 8); followed by the Pierre-et-Marie Curie station (line 7),[2] and pending the future stations Barbara (line 4) and Bagneux-Lucie Aubrac (lines 4 and 15).

Like a third of the stations in the network, between 1974 and 1984, the platforms were modernized in the Andreu-Motte style, in this case red in color with flat white tiles. As part of the RATP's Renouveau du métro project, the corridors were renovated on 27 July 2002.[3]

In 2018, 3,807,962 passengers entered this station, which places it at the 138th position of the metro stations for its usage.[4]

Passenger services

Access

The station has two entrances:

• entrance 1 - Rue Louise-Michel found at ground level at no. 30 (rare case in the metro network), on the corner with rue Anatole-France;
• entrance 2 - Rue Anatole-France, consisting of an escalator allowing an exit only to the even numbers side of the street.

Station layout

Street Level

B1

Mezzanine

Line 3 platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Westbound	← toward Pont de Levallois – Bécon (Anatole France)
	Eastbound	→ toward Gallieni (Porte de Champerret) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Platforms

Louise Michel is a standard configuration station. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is in the Andreu-Motte style with two red light strips, benches covered with flat red tiles and red Motte seats. These arrangements are combined with the flat white ceramic tiles that cover the walls, the vault and the tympans. The corridor outlets are treated with classic bevelled white tiles. The advertising frames are metallic and the name of the station is written in Parisine font on enameled plates. The station is distinguished by its platforms widths which are less than the standard configuration due to the narrowness of the street under which it was established, as well as by the lower part of its walls which, consequently, are vertical and not elliptical.

Bus connections

The station is served at night by lines N16 and N52 of the Noctilien bus network.

References

1. "Station Louise Michel - metro.paris". metro.paris (in French). Retrieved 14 February 2020.
2. "Le métro parisien peut-il se féminiser ?". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 14 February 2020.
3. "SYMBIOZ - Le Renouveau du Métro". www.symbioz.net (in French). Retrieved 14 February 2020.
4. "Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2018". data.ratp.fr (in French). Retrieved 14 February 2020.

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