Sèvres - Lecourbe (Paris Métro)

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Sèvres — Lecourbe

Date opened

1906

Accesses

Municipality/
Arrondissement

Paris 15e

Fare zone

Next stations

Paris Métro Line 6
Direction Charles de Gaulle-Étoile	Direction Nation
Cambronne	Pasteur

List of stations of the Paris Métro

Sèvres — Lecourbe is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Rue de Sèvres and the Rue Lecourbe.

[edit] History

The station is located at the site of the old "Barrier de Sevres" on the Wall of the Farmers-General, on the road to Sèvres. This entry, which was called the "Enclosure of Sevres" before the building of the wall (1784–1791), led by the Rue de Sevres to a district of Paris where hospitals were so abundant that the street was called at one time the Rue Maladrerie (an old French word for a hospital for poor diseased people, especially lepers).

General Claude Joseph Lecourbe (1758–1815) fought in the French Revolution at Fleurus (1794) and Zurich (1799). He became a Count with the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, but joined Napoleon of his return from Elba in 1815. The Rue Lecourbe follows the route of a Roman road which connected Lutetia to "Savara" (Sevres).

Until 1907, the station was called "Suffren" after the Avenue de Suffren. "Bailli" (Bailiff of the French Order of Malta) Pierre André Suffren (1729–1788) was a naval officer, and eventually admiral, who fought the British aggressively in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Seven Years' War (1754 and 1756–1763).

Paris Métro

Line 6

Charles de Gaulle — Étoile ⇒ 1 2 A • Kléber • Boissière • Trocadéro ⇒ 9 • Passy • Bir-Hakeim • Dupleix • La Motte-Picquet — Grenelle ⇒ 8 10 • Cambronne • Sèvres — Lecourbe • Pasteur ⇒ 12 • Montparnasse — Bienvenüe ⇒ 4 12 13 • Edgar Quinet • Raspail ⇒ 4 • Denfert-Rochereau ⇒ 4 B • Saint-Jacques • Glacière • Corvisart • Place d'Italie ⇒ 5 7 • Nationale • Chevaleret • Quai de la Gare • Bercy ⇒ 14 • Dugommier • Daumesnil ⇒ 8 • Bel-Air • Picpus • Nation ⇒ 1 2 9 A