Bouffémont-Moisselles: station history
Served by: Transilien H.
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A Transilien line H station, in Bouffémont, on the edge of Moisselles (Val-d'Oise), on the Épinay - Villetaneuse to Le Tréport - Mers line, between Domont and Montsoult - Maffliers, 22 km from Paris-Nord station. The Épinay to Persan - Beaumont line, via Montsoult, opened in 1877 and the Montsoult to Luzarches branch in 1880. The station building uses the standard Compagnie du Nord plan for small halts: a narrow multi-storey building with a single room and three bays on each side.
Anecdote
The village's name, attested in the 12th century, is said to come from a Germanic name, Boffo, to which the Latin mons was added. The church of Saint-Georges combines an early 12th-century saddleback bell tower with a 16th-century nave. The Château Empain, from 1860, imitates the Louis XIII style, and Baron Édouard Empain owned two thirds of Bouffémont in the early 20th century. The park of the former school on rue Pasteur, built in 1930, holds two sphinxes sculpted by Maurice Boutterin.
Around Bouffémont-Moisselles
- Château de Bouffémont, 3200 m away — A Louis XIII-style château once owned by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain, builder of the Paris metro.
- Église Saint-Maclou (Moisselles), 130 m away — A Renaissance church of 1645, whose bell 'Marie-Jeanne' of 1729 is listed.