Lamarck - Caulaincourt (subway of Paris)

Lamarck-Caulaincourt is a station of the Métro of Paris located on the line 12, in the 18 {{E}} district of Paris.

The station

It opened with the public the October 31st 1912.

Within the framework of the program “Revival of the subway” of the RATP, the Lamark-Caulaincourt station was completely closed with the public from March 27th to June 16th, 2006. The work concerned the whole of the station, except the quays already renovated between 2000 and 2001.

Origin of the name

Envisaged to be called Constantin Pecqueur, the station became Lamarck, then Lamarck (Caulaincourt), before becoming Lamarck-Caulaincourt. It should be noted that on the quays, ceramics bears only the name of Lamarck.

It bears the name of Jean-Baptiste Pierre de Monet, knight of Lamark (Bazentin, Somme 1744 - Paris 1829), professor of zoology of the invertebrates to the Natural history museum in 1793, defined a theory on the evolution of the living beings with zoological Philosophie and the Natural history of the animals without vertebrae .

And also of the marquis Armand de Caulaincourt (1772-1827) was general and ambassador in Russia of 1807 to 1811. He was then Foreign Minister of 1813 to 1814

Access

The Lamarck-Caulaincourt station has a very picturesque single entry (which one sees in the film the fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain but presented at the end of the Rue of the Martyrs, where actually the station Blanche is) who is surrounded by two staircases carrying out towards Montmartre. The quays are located 25 meters under the entry, one reaches them by means of a Ascenseur or of a Escalier out of snail.

: 53, Street Lamarck

Correspondences

Drunk the RATP

In the vicinity

northern Versant of the ridges Montmartre
Musée of Montmartre

See too

List of the stations of the subway of Paris

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