Pereire: history and sights
Served by: metro line 3.
Did you know?
Named after the Pereire brothers, 19th-century financiers who developed the French railway network and founded the residential district around this station.
Anecdote
Émile and Isaac Pereire were among the greatest financiers of the Second Empire, rivals of the Rothschilds.
Around Pereire
- Parc Monceau, 800 m away — An 18th-century English garden adorned with romantic follies, one of the most elegant in Paris.
- Square Pereire, 350 m away — A small, peaceful square laid out on the former route of the Petite Ceinture railway line.
- Boulevard Pereire, 300 m away — A wide, tree-lined boulevard, laid out along the route of the former ring railway.