Mouton-Duvernet: origin of the name and station history
Served by: metro line 4.
Why this name?
The station takes its name from rue Mouton-Duvernet, next to the station, which honours General Mouton-Duvernet. It lies under avenue du Général-Leclerc, in the 14th arrondissement, where its two entrances are, and is served by bus lines 38 and 68. Entrance no. 1 has a Guimard pavilion.
Anecdote
In early 1969 the station was given a new orange tile decor, which earned it the nickname « Mouton style »: about twenty other stations followed this model in the following years. It later lost this style in a renovation, then, with the automation of line 4, it became the first station fitted with platform screen doors.
Around Mouton-Duvernet
- Parc Montsouris, 1000 m away — An English-style landscape park designed by Adolphe Alphand, dedicated in 1869 and finished in 1878. A one-hectare artificial lake is fed by a stream running over a cascade, both also artificial.
- Cimetière du Montparnasse, 850 m away — The second largest cemetery in Paris, the final resting place of Baudelaire, Sartre and Beauvoir.
- Rue Daguerre, 450 m away — A pedestrian shopping street known for its market and village atmosphere.