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The station is located under the Place de la Madeleine, the platforms being positioned: on Line 8, east of the square and oriented approximately east-west, along the axis of Boulevard de la Madeleine (between Concorde and Opéra stations));
An earlier church of Saint-Marie-Madeleine was built in the 13th century on avenue Malesherbes, but was considered too small for the growing neighbourhood. Louis XV authorised the construction of a new, larger church, with a view along Rue Royale toward the new Place Louis XV, now Place de la Concorde. In 1763 the King laid the first stone for ...
The Place de la Concorde (French: [plas də la kɔ̃kɔʁd]; lit. ' Harmony Square ') is a public square in Paris, France. Measuring 7.6 ha (19 acres) in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.
The Boulevard de la Madeleine (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ də la madlɛn]) is one of the 11 original grands boulevards of Paris, France, a chain of roads running in a semicircle on the right bank of Paris where the city's defensive walls used to be located. The boulevard is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine. ___
The Madeleine station. After the Champ de Mars ghost station the line serves École Militaire and La Tour-Maubourg, curving right and left under the Invalides esplanade and beginning a .04-percent descent under the park tracks and the main tracks of Line 13 to the Invalides station under the Rue de Constantine.
As with all Metro lines, the first trains leave at 05:30, from both termini as well as from Porte de Versailles station. [39] On most days, the last northbound train leaves Mairie d’Issy station at 00:39. The last southbound trains leave Porte de la Chapelle station at 00:39 and 00:42, the second terminating at Porte de Versailles station.
A Canadian woman was arrested after trying to smuggle over 20 pounds of methamphetamine through a New Zealand airport, authorities said. The illicit drugs were disguised as Christmas presents, New ...
Place Vendôme, Paris. The Place Vendôme (French pronunciation: [plas vɑ̃dom]), earlier known as the Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as the Place Internationale, is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. It is the starting point of the Rue de ...