Serge Gainsbourg station

Metro station in Paris, France

Les Lilas
Serge Gainsbourg

Platforms on opening day

General information
Location| Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis
Île-de-France
France
Coordinates| 48°52′53″N 2°25′38″E﻿ / ﻿48.8812583°N 2.42722778°E﻿ / 48.8812583; 2.42722778
Owned by| RATP
Operated by| RATP
Line(s)|
Platforms| 2 (2 side platforms)
Tracks| 2
Construction
Accessible| Yes
Architect| Richez Associés[1]
History
Opened| 13 June 2024 (2024-06-13)
Services
| Preceding station  |  Paris Métro | Following station

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Mairie des Lilas

towards Châtelet

|  | Line 11 |  | Romainville–Carnot

towards Rosny–Bois-Perrier

Location

Les Lilas
Serge Gainsbourg

Location within Paris and inner ring

Serge Gainsbourg station (French pronunciation: [sɛʁʒ ɡɛ̃zbuʁ] ⓘ) is a station on Line 11 of the Paris Métro. The station is located at Place Henri-Dunant at Les Lilas and opened on 13 June 2024.[2]

## History

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### Name

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The station was initially given the provisional name of Liberté.[3] It was then renamed Serge Gainsbourg, after the eponymous French artist who had composed the song Le Poinçonneur des Lilas (The ticket-puncher of Lilas) in 1958.[4][5] There have been objections to naming it after Gainsbourg, citing "misogyny".[6]

### Construction

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On 16 July 2021, the tunnel boring machine, Sofia, arrived at the station after more than 15 months of digging since January 2020, marking the end of excavation works for the extension of line 11. The construction of the main entrance was completed by the end of January 2022 while the other entrance was completed in July 2022. Track laying also began in February 2022.[7] The station was designed by architects Richez Associés, who also designed 3 other stations on the extension.[8]

## Passenger services

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### Access

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The station has two entrances equipped with escalators, with the main entrance (with a lift) located at square Henri Dunant and the other entrance located at the intersection of rue de la Liberté and boulevard du Général Leclerc.[9]

### Station layout

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Street Level

B1 | Mezzanine
Line 11 platforms | Side platform, doors will open on the right
Westbound  | ←  toward Châtelet (Mairie des Lilas)
Eastbound  | → toward Rosny–Bois-Perrier (Romainville–Carnot) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

### Platforms

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The station will have a standard configuration with 2 tracks surrounded by 2 side platforms.

### Other connections

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The station is also served by lines 105 and 515 (TillBus) of the RATP bus network, and at night, by line N12 of the Noctilien bus network.

## Gallery

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* Construction of the station (2019)

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Line 11

Stations|

* Châtelet
* Hôtel de Ville
* Rambuteau
* Arts et Métiers
* République
* Goncourt
* Belleville
* Pyrénées
* Jourdain
* Place des Fêtes
* Télégraphe
* Porte des Lilas
* Mairie des Lilas
* Serge Gainsbourg
* Romainville–Carnot
* Montreuil–Hôpital
* La Dhuys
* Coteaux Beauclair
* Rosny–Bois-Perrier

## References

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1. ^ "4 stations for metro line 11 extension". Richez_Associés. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
2. ^ "Focus on the extension of line 11" (Press release). RATP Group. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
3. ^ "LES PROJETS URBAINS QUI VONT BÉNÉFICIER DU PROLONGEMENT DE LA LIGNE 11" (PDF). Richez_Associés (in French). Retrieved 12 March 2022.
4. ^ Grabar, Henry (13 April 2013). "Could Paris End Up With a Metro Station Named After Serge Gainsbourg?". Bloomberg. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
5. ^ "Paris. Une station de métro portant le nom de Serge Gainsbourg?". ouest-france.fr (in French). 10 April 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
6. ^ Lemoigne, Victoire (12 December 2023). "«Un misogyne notoire»: une pétition contre le nom de la future station de métro Serge Gainsbourg". Le Figaro. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
7. ^ "INFO RIVERAINS LES LILAS Nº5" (PDF). prolongementligne11est.fr (in French). October 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
8. ^ "4 stations for line 11 extension". www.richezassocies.com. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
9. ^ "Une deuxième station de la ligne 11 aux Lilas" (PDF). prolongementligne11est.fr (in French). Retrieved 12 March 2022.

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