Bourse: station history
Served by: metro line 3.
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A line 3 station in the 2nd arrondissement, it lies under place de la Bourse, where stands the Palais Brongniart, the former Bourse palace that historically housed the Paris stock exchange, between Quatre-Septembre and Sentier. It opened with the first section of line 3, between Avenue de Villiers (now Villiers) and Père Lachaise. Its two entrances, one at the south-west corner of the palace facing rue Vivienne, the other on rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, are built into the railings surrounding the building.
Anecdote
In the 1960s, the platforms received metal cladding with green uprights, with yellow benches and gilded advertising frames; it was later largely dismantled, then the platforms were renovated in 2008, returning to bevelled white tiles. For the 60th anniversary of Asterix and Obelix, half of the name plates were replaced, as in eleven other stations, and the station became « Sesterce », in the typography of the comic.
Around Bourse
- Bibliothèque nationale Richelieu, 220 m away — The BnF's historic site in Cardinal Mazarin's former palace: Mansart's Mazarin Gallery (1644-1646), the Labrouste Room (1861-1868) and the Oval Room, reopened in 2022 with free access.
- Passage des Panoramas, 280 m away — One of the oldest covered passages in Paris, 133 m long, gas-lit as early as 1817. It continues across boulevard Montmartre through the Jouffroy and Verdeau passages.
- Fontaine Louvois, 230 m away — An 1844 fountain by Visconti honouring four great French rivers, the Seine, Loire, Garonne and Saône, in the Square Louvois.
- Place des Victoires, 350 m away — A circular square from 1685 designed by Hardouin-Mansart to showcase an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, one of Paris's five royal squares.
- Palais Brongniart, 40 m away — The former Paris Stock Exchange, built under Napoleon in the style of a Greek temple.