Varenne: station history
Served by: metro line 13.
Did you know?
Serves the Musée Rodin, housed in the former Hôtel Biron and surrounded by a sculpture garden, where the famous 'Thinker' greets visitors.
Anecdote
Auguste Rodin lived and worked at the Hôtel Biron at the end of his life, before it became a museum devoted to his work.
Around Varenne
- Tombeau de Napoléon Ier, 300 m away — Under the dome of Les Invalides, the tomb designed by Visconti was inaugurated on 2 April 1861, twenty-one years after the return of the ashes. A Karelian quartzite sarcophagus rests in an open circular crypt ringed by twelve pillars.
- Musée Rodin, 200 m away — A museum devoted to sculptor Auguste Rodin, in a mansion surrounded by a sculpture garden.
- Hôtel des Invalides, 90 m away — A monumental complex founded by Louis XIV, home to Napoleon's tomb beneath its gilded dome.
- Assemblée nationale, 650 m away — The seat of the French Parliament, housed in the Palais Bourbon facing Place de la Concorde.