Sully - Morland (Paris Métro)

Sully - Morland (Paris Métro)

Infobox Paris metro
Name=Sully - Morland
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Day=June 3
Year=1930
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Municipality=the 4th arrondissement of Paris
Zone=1
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X=162
Y=92

Sully - Morland is a station of the Paris Métro, France, named after :
*the Pont de Sully, which commemorates Maximilien de Béthune, Baron of Rosny, Duke of Sully (1560-1641), friend and Minister to King Henri IV; and
*The Boulevard Morland, named after Colonel François-Louis Morland (1771-1805) who was killed at Austerlitz. His body was repatriated in a rum barrel. The Pont de Sully crosses the Seine to the Île Saint-Louis and the Boulevard Saint-Germain.


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