Madeleine station () is a station on lines 8, 12 and 14 of the Paris Métro in central Paris and the 8th arrondissement.

Location

The station is located under the Place de la Madeleine, the platforms being positioned:

  • on Line 8, east of the square and oriented approximately east-west, along the axis of Boulevard de la Madeleine (between Concorde and Opéra stations));
  • on Line 12, also east of the square and oriented approximately north-south, curved along the axis of the side carriageway of the said square on the one hand, and Rue Tronchet on the other hand, (between Saint-Lazare and Concorde);
  • on Line 14, northeast of the square and oriented approximately northwest/southeast, along the axis of Rue de Sèze (between Saint-Lazare and Pyramides).

History

The station was opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. It was the north-western terminus of Line 14 until its extension to Saint-Lazare on 16 December 2003.

Passenger services

Access

The station has five accesses divided into seven metro entrances:

Corridors

The connection between line 14 and line 8/12 is done via a large circular access shaft, with many escalators, which is the old TBM access shaft for the construction of the line up to Madeleine. This allows quick trips between platforms.

Cultural facilities

Three works of art are located in the corridors or on the platforms created for line 14, La Prière and Ryaba la Poule are in the connecting corridor with line 12 while Tissignalisation no 14 adorns the vault of the platforms.

La Prière is a sculpture created by Constantin Brâncuși. This work, a reproduction of the 1907 work, has been on display in the station since December 2001 and features a woman praying. Offered to France by the president of the International Franco-Romanian Foundation, the sculptor Remus Botar Botarro, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Constantin Brâncuși (1876-2001), this identical copy was made in the Noack art foundry in Berlin, in 2000, from a silicon rubber moulding.

Ryaba la Poule is a work by Russian artist Ivan Lubennikov. Installed in 2009, it is a 40m<sup>2</sup> stained glass window made up of 20 panels inlaid with glass elements placed on the mezzanine access to the platforms, at the outlet of the connecting corridor with line 12. In exchange for this work, RATP provided the Moscow Metro with a Guimard kiosk, which was installed at the entrance to Kiyevskaya station on the Koltsevaya line in Moscow.

Tissignalisation no 14 is a work by the French artist Jacques Tissinier. Created at the same time as the station, it is installed on the vault of the line 14 . This is an installation using a thousand embedded discs in coloured enamelled steel. Each disc measures 16&nbsp;cm in diameter and represents a stylized papyrus sheet coloured in red, white, blue and orange.

Bus connections

The station is served by lines 42, 45, 52, 84, 94 of the RATP Bus Network.

Nearby

  • Église de la Madeleine, Place de la Madeleine
  • Olympia
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Colonne Vendôme
  • Théâtre de la Madeleine
  • Théâtre Édouard VII
  • Cour des comptes
  • Pinacothèque de Paris

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Tenants

At one time Northwest Airlines had its Paris offices in the station.

References

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