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| Location | 3rd arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°51′38″N 2°22′02″E / 48.86048°N 2.367358°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RATP | ||||||||||
| Operated by | RATP | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 5 May 1931 | ||||||||||
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  Saint-Sébastien–Froissart Location within Paris | |||||||||||
Saint-Sébastien–Froissart (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sebastjɛ̃ fʁwasaʁ]) is a station on line 8 of the Paris Métro, named after the nearby streets of Rue de Saint-Sébastien and the Rue Froissart.
History
The station opened on 5 May 1931 with the extension of the line from Richelieu–Drouot to Porte de Charenton. The Rue de Saint-Sébastien was named after Saint Sebastian. The Rue Froissart was added on 12 January 1932 and named after the poet and writer Jean Froissart (ca 1337–1400).[1]
As part of the RATP's Renouveau du métro program, the station was completely renovated by 2 October 2006.[2] The decoration of the platforms in the interwar style of the former CMP was thus renewed and completed with new lighting, but the advertising frames with plant motifs were recreated in brown earthenware and no longer in the original honey colour.
In 2021 with 1,151,192 passengers were recorded, relegating it to the 266th position of the network's stations in terms of attendance that year.[3]
Passenger services
Access
The station has two entrances, each consisting of a fixed staircase adorned with a balustrade and a Dervaux-type candelabra:
- Access 1 Rue Froissart - Pablo Picasso Museum - leading to no. 3 Boulevard Beaumarchais;
- Access 2 Rue Saint-Sébastián - located to the right of no. 8 of the same boulevard.
Station layout
| Street Level |
| B1 | Mezzanine for platform connection |
| Platform level | Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| toward Balard | ←   toward Balard (Filles du Calvaire) | |
| toward Pointe du Lac | toward Pointe du Lac (Chemin Vert) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Platforms
San Sebastián - Froissart is a station with a standard configuration. it has two platforms separated by the metro tracks located in the centre and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is in the style used for most of metro stations. The lighting strips are white and rounded in the Gaudin style of the metro revival of the 2000s, and the bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls, the vault and the tunnel exits. The advertising frames are made of earthenware with brown plant motifs (a shade that did not originally exist) and the name of the station is also made of earthenware in the interwar style of the original CMP. The seats are in an orange Akiko style (replacing wooden slatted benches).
It is one of the few stations in the network whose ceramic decoration in the "CMP" style is no longer original, having been completely reconstructed during the 2006 renovation.
Bus connections
The station is served by line 91 of the RATP Bus Network and, at night, by lines N01 and N02 of the Noctilien network.
Nearby
- Musée Picasso
- Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement
- Square Saint-Gilles Grand Veneur - Pauline-Roland
- Jardin de l'Hôtel-Salé - Léonor-Fini
References
- ↑ Roland, Gérard (April 2008). Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram (in French). p. 197. ISBN 9782862533827.
- ↑ "SYMBIOZ - Le Renouveau du Métro". www.symbioz.net. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2020". data.ratp.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- Roland, Gérard (2003). Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram. Éditions Bonneton.
