Pasteur station (Paris Métro)

Template:Infobox Paris metro Pasteur is a station on lines 6 and 12 of the Paris Métro in the 15th arrondissement. The platforms on both lines are underground, although line 6 becomes elevated just to the northwest of the station. Nearby are the Pasteur Institute and the Lycée Buffon (school).

History

Postcard of station in about 1906

The station opened on 24 April 1906 with the opening of the extension of line 2 Sud from Passy to Place d'Italie. On 14 October 1907 line 2 Sud became part of line 5. On 12 October 1942 the section of line 5 between Étoile and Place d'Italie, including Pasteur was transferred from line 5 to line 6 in order to separate the underground and elevated sections of the metro (because the latter were more vulnerable to air attack during World War II).

The line 12 platforms opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. On 27 March 1931 line A became line 12 of the Métro.

The station is named after the Boulevard Pasteur, named after Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French microbiologist and chemist.

It was the location of the Barrière de Vaugirard, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished during in the nineteenth century.

The station was seen in the film Alice et Martin when Juliette Binoche as Alice looks out the window of a train as it passes through.

Gallery

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  Line 6 platforms at Pasteur
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  Line 6 platforms at Pasteur
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  Line 12 platforms at Pasteur
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  MF 67 rolling stock on Line 12 at Pasteur