Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette is a station

Metro station

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 on Line 7

Paris Metro Line 7

Paris Métro Line 7 is one of sixteen lines of the Paris Métro system. Crossing the capital from its north-eastern to south-eastern sections via a moderately curved path, it links La Courneuve – 8 Mai 1945 in the north with Mairie d'Ivry and Villejuif – Louis Aragon in the south, while passing...

 and Line 9

Paris Metro Line 9

Paris Métro Line 9 is one of 16 lines of the Paris Métro. The line links Pont de Sèvres in Boulogne in the west with Montreuil in the east. It is the fourth busiest line on the network....

 of the Paris Métro

Paris Métro

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. The station was opened on 5 November 1910 with the opening of the first section of the line from Opéra

Opéra (Paris Metro)

Opéra is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the nearby Opera Garnier, built by the architect Charles Garnier. It is located at the end of the Avenue de l'Opera, one of the accesses being opposite the Opera, and serves the district of the Boulevard Haussmann...

 to Porte de la Villette

Porte de la Villette (Paris Metro)

Porte de la Villette is a station of the Paris Métro. The origin of the commune of the Villette was a Gallo-Roman village, which grew up on the Roman road that led to east Flanders. About 1198, it became Ville Neuve Saint-Ladre and by 1426 it was called Villette-Saint-Miser-lez-Paris. The commune...

. The line 9 platforms opened on 3 June 1923 with the extension of the line from Saint-Augustin

Saint-Augustin (Paris Metro)

Saint-Augustin is a station that serves Line 9 of the Paris Métro, named after the Place Saint-Augustin and the Saint-Augustin church. The station opened on 27 May 1923 with the extension of the line from Trocadéro....

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The station was originally named Chaussée d'Antin after the street of Chaussée d'Antin

Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin

The rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, in the IXe arrondissement of Paris was the street that gave this new quarter of Paris its generic name. It runs north-northwest from the Boulevard des Italiens to the Église de la Sainte-Trinité sited to provide a focal object at its upper end...

—which was named after himself by Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin

Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin

Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin , marquis of Antin, Gondrin and Montespan , then 1st Duke of Antin was a French nobleman...

, first Duke of Antin

Duke of Antin

The duchy of Antin was a French duchy created in 1711 by the promotion of the marquisate of Antin into a "duché-pairie"...

 (1665–1736) in 1712. In 1989 La Fayette was added referring to famous shopping steet of Rue La Fayette, named after Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.

The area was once a marsh

Marsh

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 to the north of the old Porte Gaillon (a gate in the extension of Paris's walls, built under Louis XIII). Louis XV's frequent visits to Paris led to the building in the area of several splendid residences, including a mansion built by Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin

Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin

Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin , marquis of Antin, Gondrin and Montespan , then 1st Duke of Antin was a French nobleman...

, Duc d'Antin, son of Marquise de Montespan

Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan

Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise of Montespan , better known as Madame de Montespan, was the most celebrated maîtresse en titre of King Louis XIV of France, by whom she had seven children....

 (later a long-time mistress to Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV of France

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) and the King's Superintendent of Building, Louis Henri Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis de Montespan.

The main Galeries Lafayette

Galeries Lafayette

- History :In 1893 Théophile Bader and his cousin Alphonse Kahn opened a fashion store in a small haberdasher's shop at the corner of rue La Fayette and the Chaussée d'Antin, Paris. In 1896, the company purchased the entire building at n°1 rue La Fayette and in 1905 the buildings at n°38, 40 et...

 department store in the Boulevard Haussmann

Boulevard Haussmann

Boulevard Haussmann, running from the 8th to the 9th arrondissement,is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards created in Paris during the Second French Empire by Baron Haussmann, with enthusiastic support from Napoleon III....

is nearby.

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