Trinité-d'Estienne d'Orves: station history
Served by: metro line 12.
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A line 12 station in the 9th arrondissement, under the western end of rue de Châteaudun, where it meets place d'Estienne-d'Orves, between Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and Saint-Lazare. It opened with the first section of Nord-Sud line A, between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. It was called Trinité, after the church of the Sainte-Trinité. In May 1945, it was renamed Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves at the same time as the square, in honour of Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (1901-1941), a Resistance fighter shot by the Germans at Mont-Valérien.
Anecdote
It is the first of eight stations renamed after the Second World War in honour of Resistance fighters, before Charles Michels, Colonel Fabien, Corentin Celton, Guy Môquet, Jacques Bonsergent, Corentin Cariou and Marx Dormoy. From 2016, the « Un métro + beau » programme removed the 1960s cladding and, in 2018, restored the original Nord-Sud decor, with its brown ceramics with interlaced « NS » letters. The semi-elliptical vault is characteristic of the old Nord-Sud stations, and the Akiko seats are yellow.
Around Trinité-d'Estienne d'Orves
- Église de la Trinité, 40 m away — Built from 1861 to 1867 by Théodore Ballu in a neo-Renaissance style, it has a 65-m bell tower and a Cavaillé-Coll organ of 1869. Olivier Messiaen was its titular organist from 1931 to 1992.
- Théâtre Mogador, 110 m away — A music hall in the English style designed by Bertie Crewe and Édouard Niermans, officially inaugurated on 21 April 1919. It has about 1,600 seats and stages musicals such as The Lion King, Mamma Mia! and Cats.
- Musée national Gustave-Moreau, 300 m away — The former studio of symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, preserving thousands of his works.