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{{Short description|Metro station in Paris, France}}
{{Infobox station
| name                = Richelieu–Drouot
| symbol_location     = paris
| symbol              = m
| symbol2             = 
| type                = [[Paris Métro]]  station
| image               = Station Richelieu Drouot Métro Paris Ligne 8 - Paris IX (FR75) - 2022-07-02 - 8.jpg
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| other_name          = 
| address             = [[2nd arrondissement of Paris]]
| borough             = [[Île-de-France]]
| country             = France
| coordinates         = {{coord|48.871987|2.338741|region:FR_scale:2000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| owned               = [[RATP Group|RATP]]
| operator            = [[RATP Group|RATP]]
| line                = 
| accessible            = 
| zone                = 1
| opened              = {{Start-date|30 June 1928}}
| closed              = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} -->
| services            = {{Adjacent stations|system1=Paris Métro
|line1=8|left1=Opéra|right1=Grands Boulevards
|line2=9|left2=Chaussée d'Antin–La Fayette|right2=Grands Boulevards
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| map_type            = France Paris
}}
'''Richelieu–Drouot''' ({{IPA|fr|ʁiʃ(ə)ljø dʁu.o}}) is a [[Metro station|station]] of the [[Paris Métro]] on [[Paris Métro Line 8|Lines 8]] and [[Paris Métro Line 9|9]]. It was opened on 30 June 1928 with the extension of line 8 from [[Opéra (Paris Métro)|Opéra]] and line 9 from [[Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette (Paris Métro)|Chaussée d'Antin]].

==History==
The station was opened on 30 June 1928 with the simultaneous commissioning of extensions of line 8 from Opéra and line 9 from Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette.{{rp|240–1}}<ref name=Jean/>{{rp|335}} It then constituted the western terminus of these two lines (respectively from Porte d'Auteuil and Porte de Saint-Cloud) until 5 May 1931 when line 8 was extended to Porte de Charenton1 and until 10 December 1933 for line 9 which is then extended to Porte de Montreuil.<ref name="Jean">{{Cite book |last=Tricoire |first=Jean |title=Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor |publisher=La Vie du Rail |year=2004 |isbn=2-915034-32-X |edition=3rd |location=Paris |pages=351–368 |language=fr}}</ref>{{rp|259}}

The line 8 station is the first in the network to have been built with platforms 105 meters long, which would subsequently be extended to all the stopping points on the section up to Maisons- Alfort - Les Juilliotes and that of Balard at La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle, as well as at the new stations of lines 1, 3, 7 and 9. These dimensions were planned to accommodate trains of seven cars, a project which did not materialise, except temporarily on line 8 during the [[Paris Colonial Exposition]] of 1931 which was held in the [[Bois de Vincennes]].

It is named after the Boulevard de Richelieu and Rue Drouot. [[Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]] (1585–1642) was Secretary of State to [[Louis XIII of France|Louis XIII]]. [[Antoine Drouot]] (1774–1847) was [[Aide-de-camp]] to [[Napoleon I]] in 1813 and accompanied him to [[Elba]] and during his brief comeback known as the [[Hundred Days]].

In addition, it was in this station that a young Frenchman [[Jacques Fesch]] was disarmed and arrested on 25 February 1954, after fleeing following the robbery of a Bureau de change, followed by the murder of a police officer,<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 June 2018 |title=Lumière sur l'échafaud, d'après le journal de prison de Jacques Fesch |url=http://www.lestroiscoups.com/article-36515250.html |access-date=2022-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620001703/http://www.lestroiscoups.com/article-36515250.html |archive-date=2018-06-20 }}</ref> crimes that led to his execution on 1 October 1957.

Like a third of the stations on the network, between 1974 and 1984 the stopping points on both lines were modernized by adopting the ''Andreu-Motte'' decorative style, blue for line 8 and orange on line 9, with preservation of the original earthenware in both cases.

As part of the RATP's ''Un métro + beau'' modernisation programme, all the station's corridors were renovated by 25 April 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SYMBIOZ - Le Renouveau du Métro |url=https://www.symbioz.net/index.php?id=42 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=www.symbioz.net |archive-date=2007-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014211229/http://www.symbioz.net/index.php?id=42 |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to RATP estimates, the station saw 5,014,491 passengers enter in 2019, which places it in 81st position among metro stations for its attendance.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2019 |url=https://dataratp2.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/trafic-annuel-entrant-par-station-du-reseau-ferre-2019/table/?sort=-rang&refine.reseau=M%C3%A9tro |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=dataratp2.opendatasoft.com |language=fr |archive-date=2022-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121165739/https://dataratp2.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/trafic-annuel-entrant-par-station-du-reseau-ferre-2019/table/?sort=-rang&refine.reseau=M%C3%A9tro |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, with the Covid-19 crisis, its annual traffic fell to 2,313,492 passengers, relegating it to 99th place,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2020 |url=https://data.ratp.fr/explore/dataset/trafic-annuel-entrant-par-station-du-reseau-ferre-2020/table/?refine.reseau=M%C3%A9tro&sort=-rang |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=data.ratp.fr |language=fr |archive-date=2022-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110223629/https://data.ratp.fr/explore/dataset/trafic-annuel-entrant-par-station-du-reseau-ferre-2020/table/?refine.reseau=M%C3%A9tro&sort=-rang |url-status=live }}</ref> before gradually rising in 2021 with 2,994,510 entries recorded, which demoted it to 108th position of stations in the network.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2021 |url=https://data.ratp.fr/explore/dataset/trafic-annuel-entrant-par-station-du-reseau-ferre-2021/table/?sort=-rang |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=data.ratp.fr |language=fr |archive-date=2022-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110223632/https://data.ratp.fr/explore/dataset/trafic-annuel-entrant-par-station-du-reseau-ferre-2021/table/?sort=-rang |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Passenger services==
===Access===
The station has eight entrances, six of which are adorned with Dervaux candelabras:
* Entrance 1 - ''Boulevard Haussmann'', consisting of a fixed staircase, on Place Daniel-Iffla-Osiris at the corner of Boulevard Haussmann and Boulevard des Italiens;
* Entrance 2 - ''Rue de Richelieu'', consisting of a fixed staircase, located to the right of no. 3 on the Boulevard des Italiens;
* Entrance 3 - ''Boulevard Montmartre'', consisting of a fixed staircase, located opposite no. 2 Boulevard Haussmann;
* Entrance 4 - ''Rue Chauchat'', consisting of a fixed staircase, leading to the right of no. 6 Boulevard Haussmann;
* Entrance 5 - ''Rue Laffitte'', consisting of a fixed staircase allowing exit only, located on Boulevard Haussmann behind the [[BNP Paribas]] headquarters;
* Entrance 6 - ''Rue Taitbout'', consisting of a fixed staircase, located opposite the head office of BNP Paribas at no. 6 Boulevard des Italiens;
* Entrance 7 - ''Rue de Marivaux - Opéra-Comique'', consisting of a fixed staircase, leading to the right of no. 11 Boulevard des Italiens;
* Entrance 8 - ''Boulevard des Italiens'', consisting of an ascending escalator allowing only an exit, located opposite no. 2 of this boulevard.

[[File:Metro de Paris - Richelieu - Drouot - Monument aux morts.jpg|thumb|right|War memorial]] Between the two access corridors to line 9, opposite the sales area, is the war memorial of the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Métropolitain de Paris (CMP). Inaugurated in 1931, it was sculpted [[Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles|Carlo Sarrabezolles]].

This black marble monument is dedicated to the memory of the employees of the Metro who died for France. The central sculpture is decorated with a [[caryatid]], that supports with its raised arms the twist of stone which surrounds it. It separates the semi-circle into two parts, inside which are inscribed the names of the Metro officials who disappeared during the [[First World War]]. The base of the monument bears the names of the battlefields of the Great War. The word ''Liberation'' was added at the bottom right after the [[Second World War]], to mark the participation of network agents in the [[French Resistance]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Le Patrimoine de la RATP |publisher=Flohic |year=1996 |isbn=978-2842340070 |page=241 |language=FR}}</ref>

===Station layout===
{| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=50 valign=top|'''G'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100 valign=top|Street Level
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=450 valign=top|Exit/Entrance
|-
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=50 valign=top|'''B1'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100 valign=top|Mezzanine
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=450 valign=top|Fare control
|-
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=50 rowspan=4 valign=top|'''B2'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|{{small|[[Side platform]], doors will open on the right}}
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=100|'''Westbound'''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=390|← {{R-I|paris|m}} {{R-I|paris|m|8}} toward [[Balard (Paris Métro)|Balard]] {{small|([[Opéra (Paris Métro)|Opéra]])}}
|-
|'''Eastbound'''
|{{0|→}} {{R-I|paris|m}} {{R-I|paris|m|8}} toward [[Pointe du Lac (Paris Métro)|Pointe du Lac]] {{small|([[Grands Boulevards (Paris Métro)|Grands Boulevards]])}} →
|-
|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;text-align:center;" colspan=2|{{small|[[Side platform]], doors will open on the right}}
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=50 rowspan=4 valign=top|'''B3'''
|style="border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|{{small|[[Side platform]], doors will open on the right}}
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=100|'''Westbound'''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=390|← {{R-I|paris|m}} {{R-I|paris|m|9}} toward [[Pont de Sèvres (Paris Métro)|Pont de Sèvres]] {{small|([[Chaussée d'Antin – La Fayette (Paris Métro)|Chaussée d'Antin–La Fayette]])}}
|-
|'''Eastbound'''
|{{0|→}} {{R-I|paris|m}} {{R-I|paris|m|9}} toward [[Mairie de Montreuil (Paris Métro)|Mairie de Montreuil]] {{small|(Grands Boulevards)}} →
|-
|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;text-align:center;" colspan=2|{{small|[[Side platform]], doors will open on the right}}
|}

===Platforms===
The platforms of the two lines are of a standard configuration. Two in number per stop, they are separated by the metro tracks located in the centre and the vault is elliptical. Their decoration is in the ''Andreu-Motte'' style. Those of line 8 have a blue lighting canopy, benches, corridor outlets and the tunnel exit on the [[Pointe du Lac (Paris Métro)|Pointe du Lac]] side is in flat blue tiles as well as blue ''Motte'' seats. Those of line 9 have an orange lighting canopy, bench seats and exits in flat orange tiles and orange ''Motte'' seats. For both lines, these arrangements are combined with bevelled white ceramic tiles covering the side walls, the vault, and the rest of the tunnel exits, as well as advertising frames in honey-coloured earthenware with plant motifs and the name of the station is also in earthenware, in the interwar style of the original [[Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris|CMP]].

These platforms are among the few to still present the ''Andreu-Motte'' style in its entirety, if we exclude the tunnel exits (whose treatment with flat coloured tiles was not systematic).

===Bus connections===
The station is served by lines 20, 32, 39, 45, 74 and 85 of the [[RATP Bus Network]].

==Nearby==
* Town Hall 9th arrondissement
* [[Hôtel Drouot]]
* [[Opéra-Comique]]
* Passage des Princes
* Headquarters of [[Le Figaro]] newspaper
* [[Golf-Drouot]] (defunct)
* Cafe d'Angleterre (defunct)

==Gallery==
<gallery widths=200 heights=150>
File:Metro Paris - Ligne 8 - Richelieu - Drouot 02.jpg|[[Paris Métro Line 8|Line 8]] platforms at Richelieu–Drouot
File:MF 77 ligne 8 Richelieu - Drouot.ogg|[[MF 77]] rolling stock on Line 8 at Richelieu–Drouot
</gallery>

==References==
{{Commons category|Richelieu - Drouot (Paris Metro)}}
{{Reflist}}
*Roland, Gérard (2003). ''Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram.'' Éditions Bonneton.

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