Porte d'Orléans: station history
Served by: metro line 4.
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A line 4 station in the 14th arrondissement, at the intersection of avenue du Général-Leclerc, boulevard Brune and boulevard Jourdan; the name on the platforms is completed by « Général Leclerc », after the avenue under which it lies. It was the southern terminus of the line for more than a century, until the extension to Mairie de Montrouge. The station has eight entrances around place du 25-Août-1944 and place Édith-Thomas, and two additional entrances with lifts were created in the north during the extension, making it accessible to people with reduced mobility.
Anecdote
Until 2011, the station was one of the few to still have automatic gates, at the entrance to the platform towards Porte de Clignancourt. This platform is very wide, as it combines the former central departure platform and the second, now removed, departure track. Built at ground level, the station has a metal deck ceiling with silver beams, and it was the last of the line 4's 27 pre-existing stations to receive platform screen doors. Its large bevelled white tiles are rare on the metro.
Around Porte d'Orléans
- Parc Montsouris, 600 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.
- Cité internationale universitaire, 950 m away — An international campus with varied architectural pavilions representing dozens of countries.
- Mairie de Montrouge, 650 m away — The Montrouge town hall, a close southern Paris suburb.