Rue de la Pompe: origin of the name and station history
Served by: metro line 9.
Why this name?
The station takes its name from rue de la Pompe, an old road of the village of Passy called the Vieux-Chemin, which ran alongside the château de la Muette; it takes its name from a pump that supplied the château with water. Its subtitle « Avenue Georges Mandel » repeats the name of the avenue above the station, which honours the politician Georges Mandel. It opened with the first section of line 9, between Trocadéro and Exelmans, and lies between La Muette and Trocadéro. Its single entrance, « Allée Maria-Callas », is at no. 56 avenue Georges-Mandel.
Anecdote
The Resistance member Joseph Gastaldo and his deputy Jean-Louis Théobald were arrested by the Gestapo at this station, where they were to meet Charles Delestraint, arrested at La Muette; they were imprisoned at Fresnes, then deported the following year. The staircases have a Dervaux-style railing, and one of them a Val d'Osne lamp-post.
Around Rue de la Pompe
- Musée Marmottan Monet, 1200 m away — A museum home to the world's largest collection of Claude Monet works.
- Bois de Boulogne, 600 m away — A vast 850-hectare wood west of Paris, laid out in the 19th century in the style of London's parks.
- Avenue Victor-Hugo, 550 m away — An elegant residential avenue in the 16th arrondissement, lined with chic boutiques.