Metro Station of the Month: Vaneau

The Vaneau metro station, built in 1923, has classic Art Nouveau features like intricate green ironwork and globe lanterns. However, the font on the stone etched Metropolitan sign and the blue tile work seem more Art Deco. The station is located in the 7th Arr. on a calm residential section of the rue de Sévres, a few blocks from the more commercial end near le Bon Marché. There’s a long white stucco wall that runs along both sides of the station with tall green leafy trees overhanging and an inset with a handsome white stone Egyptian statue.

Vaneau
#10 line
Gare de Austerlitz to Boulogne/Porte St. Cloud Click here for more on the history of the Paris metro

Walk like an Egyptian

Bye-Bye Vaneau

My friend, impresario Terrance Gelenter of the site Paris through Expatriate Eyes, produces a series of wonderful and enlightening literary events in Paris. Be sure not to miss his next event, An Evening with Pete Hamill on Tuesday, May 29th. Click here for details.

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I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

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Comments

[Polly]

Thanks for great coverage of our local station. Good thing the grafitti police scrubbed the red off the private parts of Egyptian fountain statue before you took the photo.
It would be great if the city made this fabulous sculpture a fountain once again... in my dreams.

[françoise schein]

thanks to have put my station Concorde on your site

Françoise