Boissière: origin of the name and station history
Served by: metro line 6.
Why this name?
The station takes its name from rue Boissière, which itself owes its name to the former Croix Boissière, a cross decorated with boxwood on feast days, such as Palm Sunday. It lies under avenue Kléber, north of rue Boissière, level with rue Galilée, between Kléber and Trocadéro. It opened on a branch of line 1 between Étoile and Trocadéro, which became in 1903 the first section of line 2 South.
Anecdote
Its single entrance, at no. 57 avenue Kléber, is a Guimard pavilion listed as a historic monument by order of 12 February 2016. The station appears in the Suprême NTM video « That's My People » (1998).
Around Boissière
- Trocadéro, 450 m away — The forecourt of the Palais de Chaillot, which separates its two wings and offers a prime view of the Eiffel Tower. Since 1985, at François Mitterrand's initiative, it has been named the "forecourt of liberties and human rights".
- Musée Guimet, 650 m away — The national museum of Asian arts, home to one of the richest collections outside Asia.
- Palais de Tokyo, 900 m away — A vast space devoted to contemporary creation, one of the largest contemporary art centres in Europe.