Place Monge station explained

Place Monge
Symbol Location:paris
Symbol:m
Type:Paris Métro station
Address:5th arrondissement of Paris
Borough:Île-de-France
Country:France
Coordinates:48.8436°N 2.3523°W
Owned:RATP
Operator:RATP
Zone:1
Map Type:France Paris

Place Monge (in French pronounced as /plas mɔ̃ʒ/) is a station on Line 7 of the Paris Métro and located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.

Location

The station is located in the middle of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, under the Rue Monge to the north-east of the Place Monge. Oriented along a north-south axis, it is interspersed between the Jussieu and Censier - Daubenton metro stations. In the direction of Mairie d'Ivry and Villejuif - Louis Aragon, it was preceded by a connection with line 10, which was in commercial service for a year, from 1930 to 1931, when this line had as its terminus Porte de Choisy.

History

It opened on 15 February 1930 as part of a planned section of the line, which was temporarily operated as part of Line 10 until the completion of the under-Seine crossing of Line 7 from Pont de Sully. This former arrangement can still be seen at the north of the station where a non-revenue track diverges on the left, leading to Cardinal Lemoine (now on Line 10). The station was integrated into Line 7 on 26 April 1931.

It serves Place Monge, named after Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818), a French mathematician who is best known as the inventor of descriptive geometry. The station is located in the eastern part of the Latin Quarter. Nearby are the Jardin des Plantes (botanical garden), the Roman remains of the Arènes de Lutèce and the Rue Mouffetard, a street with restaurants and a lively street market.

Passenger services

Access

The station has two accesses divided into three metro entrances:

Station layout

Street Level
B1Connecting level
Line 7 platforms
Southbound
Northbound toward La Courneuve–8 mai 1945

Platforms

Place Monge is a station with a standard configuration. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is in the Andreu-Motte style with two brown light canopies, benches covered in flat brown tiles and orange Motte seats. These fittings are combined with the bevelled white ceramic tiles that cover the side walls, the vault, the tunnel exits and the outlets of the corridors. The advertising frames are in honey-coloured earthenware with plant motifs and the name of the station is also in earthenware in the Interwar period of the original CMP.

The platforms were designed to accommodate trains 105 meters long, but only 75 meters are actually used. A track device is located at the north end of the station in the unused part of the platforms, a very rare case on the network that was also found at the Saint-Lazare station on line 14.

Bus connections

The station is served by line 47 of the RATP Bus Network and, at night, by lines N15 and N22 of the Noctilien network.

Nearby

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