Bièvres: station history
Served by: Transilien V.
Did you know?
A Transilien line V station on the Grande Ceinture, in Bièvres (Essonne), at an altitude of 77 metres, on the Versailles-Chantiers - Massy-Palaiseau link. It was created when passenger traffic opened between Versailles-Chantiers and Savigny-sur-Orge. The northern section of the Grande Ceinture between Versailles-Chantiers and Juvisy lost its passengers, but the southern section via Massy-Palaiseau remained in service. Its building follows the model of the third-class stations on the line, designed by the engineer Luneau, and its original platform shelter has been preserved.
Anecdote
In the hamlet of Vauboyen, the château des Roches was acquired in 1804 by Louis-François Bertin, founder of the « Journal des débats ». From 1815 until his death in 1841, he held a literary salon there attended by Victor Hugo, Juliette Drouet, Gounod, Berlioz, Ingres, Liszt and Chateaubriand. Bought in 1989 by the Sōka Gakkai, it became the « Maison littéraire de Victor Hugo », which stages exhibitions on the writer.
Around Bièvres
- Musée français de la Photographie, 1300 m away — Nearly a million photographs and 25,000 pieces of equipment retracing the history of photography since 1839.