Abbesses station
{{Short description|Metro station in Paris, France}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Abbesses
| symbol_location = paris
| symbol = m
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| type = Paris Métro station
| image = Station Métro Abbesses Ligne 12 - Paris XVIII (FR75) - 2022-06-01 - 2.jpg
| alt =
| caption = MF 67 on Line 12
| other_name =
| address = 18th arrondissement of Paris
| borough = Île-de-France
| country = France
| coordinates = {{coord|48.884849|2.338688|display=inline,title}}
| owned = RATP
| operator = RATP
| line =
| accessible =
| zone = 1
| opened = {{Start date text|31 October 1912}}
| closed =
| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Paris Métro|line=12|left=Pigalle|right=Lamarck–Caulaincourt}}
| map_type = France Paris
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Abbesses ({{IPA|fr|abɛs}}, literally Abbesses) is a station on Paris Métro Line 12, in the Montmartre district and the 18th arrondissement. Abbesses is the deepest station in the Paris Métro, at 36 metres (118 feet)Jean Robert, Notre métro page 88 below ground, and is located on the western side of the butte (hill) of Montmartre. Access to the platforms is by elevator or the decorated stairs.
Location
{{stack|File:Abbesses (Paris Métro).jpg}}
Nearby are the Montmartre district, the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre (church), the Place du Tertre and the Église Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre (Art Nouveau church). The station is named after the Place des Abbesses, referring to the abbesses of the nearby abbey of the Dames-de-Montmartre.
History
The station opened on 30 January 1913,{{Cite web|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6560266h/f108.image|title=Commission du Métropolitain du Conseil Municipal de Paris, 8 February 1913.|year=1913}} three months after the extension of the Nord-Sud company's line A from Pigalle to Jules Joffrin. On 27 March 1931, line A became line 12 of the Métro.
Station layout
| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=50 valign=top|Street Level |
| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=50 valign=top|B1 |style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=100 valign=top|Mezzanine |
| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=50 rowspan=10 valign=top|Line 12 platforms |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|Southbound
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=390|← 20px 20px toward Mairie d'Issy {{small|(Pigalle)}} |
| Northbound
|{{0|→}} 20px 20px toward Mairie d'Aubervilliers {{small|(Lamarck – Caulaincourt)}} → |
| 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}} |
Architecture
{{Main|Architecture of the Paris Métro}}
File:Abesses entrance 1.jpg-designed {{lang|fr|édicule}}]]
File:Entree-station-abesses.jpg platform barriers at Abbesses]]
The station's entrance, designed by Hector Guimard (1867–1942), is one of only two remaining glass-covered "dragonfly" entrances, known as {{lang|fr|édicules}} (the other is located at Porte Dauphine, while a replica exists at Châtelet). Though a Guimard original, the édicule at Abbesses was originally located at {{Lang|fr|Hôtel de Ville|italic=no}} and was transferred to its current location in 1974. The entrance is technically anachronistic, since line 12 of the Paris metro was built by a competing firm, the Nord-Sud Company, which did not hire Guimard but engaged other architects to design its stations and station entrances.
Abbesses in popular culture
- Abbesses is featured in Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain; a working title for the film was Amélie des Abbesses (Amélie of the Abbesses). Though set at Abbesses station, the film was actually shot at Porte des Lilas station, which has a disused platform that has been specially set up for filming.
- The entrance to Abbesses metro station is featured near the beginning of music video for Howard Jones' What Is Love as well as several other locations around Paris{{Cite web|url=http://afrenchfryeinparis.wordpress.com/tag/howard-jones/|title=Howard jones}}
- Louis Vuitton has a messenger style bag in the Monogram Canvas line named after the station.
- A cartoon version of the station appears in the official music video for "Flowers", the ninth track on Émilie Simon.
- "Abbesses" is also where Minette's fashion studio is located in a Nancy Drew PC game Danger By Design.
- The French DJ crew Birdy Nam Nam has composed a musical piece called Abbesses.{{cite AV media |url-status = live |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/qMYMC6atRoE |archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYMC6atRoE |title = Birdy Nam Nam – Abbesses |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
- Featured in multiple scenes of the final episode of Netflix original series Sense8.
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060430103239/http://www.ratp.fr/corpo/rnm/index.html Renovation works schedule from RATP web-site (French)]
{{Paris Metro/line 12}}
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Category:Paris Métro stations in the 18th arrondissement of Paris
Category:Railway stations in France opened in 1912
Category:Art Nouveau architecture in Paris