Porte des Lilas (Paris Métro)

Infobox Paris metro
Name=Porte des Lilas
Day=November 27
Year=1921
Access=Boul. Serurier × Av. de Belleville
261, av. Gambetta
171, boul. Mortier
Municipality=Paris 19e
Zone=1
Next=
X=214
Y=46

Porte des Lilas is a station of the Paris Métro. It serves Line 11 and is the northern terminus of Line 3bis.

It is named after the nearby former gate in the Thiers fortifications around Paris (built 1841-45), which led to the town of Les Lilas.

The station was referred to in Serge Gainsbourgs famous 1958 chanson "Le poinçonneur des Lilas" about the ennui of a Métro employee's workday. A Scopitone music video for the song was filmed in Porte des Lilas, showing the singer in a Métro uniform, punching tickets. [ [http://www.forumdesimages.net/fr/alacarte/htm/ACTUALITE/GAINSBOURG.htm Serge Gainsbourg] Article on "Forum des Images", February 2003 (in French)]

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