From Parc Monceau to Buttes-Chaumont
Thirteen stations, almost all on line 2, separate two parks born a century apart. Parc Monceau, wanted by the Duke of Chartres and finished by Carmontelle in 1779, gathers follies: an Egyptian pyramid, a Roman colonnade, a Dutch windmill. It is where André-Jacques Garnerin made the first silk parachute jump in 1797. The route then crosses Pigalle, Barbès and Stalingrad to reach Buttes-Chaumont, opened on 1 April 1867, the day of the Universal Exposition. Alphand designed it, Davioud built the Temple de la Sibylle, and Eiffel designed the 63-metre suspension bridge.