Sèvres - Lecourbe (Paris Métro)

Infobox Paris metro
Name=Sèvres—Lecourbe
Day=April 24th
Year=1906
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Municipality=the 15th arrondissement of Paris
Zone=1
Next=
X=98
Y=101

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

History

The station is located at the site of the old “Barrière de Sèvres” on the Wall of the Farmers-General, on the road to Sèvres. This entry, which was called the “Enclosure of Sèvres” before the building of the wall (1784–1791), led by the Rue de Sèvres 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” (Sèvres).

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).

Other Information

This station is one of a small number of elevated Paris Métro stations. The tracks emerge from underground near the Pasteur station at "Rue de Vaugirard" and remain elevated through four more stations, crossing the Seine on Pont de Bir-Hakeim and descending underground west of the Seine near the Passy station. Visitors have excellent views of several notable landmarks from this station and its trains.