Courcelles
General information
Location	1, rue de Chazelle 53, boul. de Courcelles 8th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°52′45″N2°18′15″E / 48.87917°N 2.30417°E /48.87917; 2.30417
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	7 October 1902 (1902-10-07)
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Ternes towardsPorte Dauphine Line 2 Monceau towardsNation
Location Courcelles Location within Paris

Courcelles (French pronunciation:[kuʁsɛl]^ⓘ) is a station onParis Métro Line 2, under theBoulevard de Courcelles on the border of the8th and17th arrondissement of Paris.

The station is located under Boulevard de Courcelles, east of the intersection with the eponymous street. Approximately oriented along an east–west axis, it intersects betweenTernes andMonceau stations.

The station was opened on 7 October 1902 as part of the extension of Line 2 Nord fromÉtoile toAnvers which became line 2 on 17 October 1907. The Boulevard was named after theBarrière de Courcelles, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of theWall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished in 1859. The gate was named after a small village in the area that was absorbed into Paris in 1860.

From the 1950s until 2007, the walls were covered with metal bodywork with blue horizontal uprights and illuminated golden advertising frames. This arrangement was then supplemented withshell white seats characteristic of theMotte style.

As part of the RATP'sRenouveau du métro program, the station's corridors were renovated on 22 November 2002 and then the platforms in 2008 which led to the removal of their metal bodywork.^[1]

In 2019, 2,557,929 travelers entered this station which placed it at 205th position of the metro stations for its usage of 303 metro stations.^[2]

The station has two entrances opening on either side of Boulevard de Courcelles, each consisting of a fixed staircase embellished with a mast with a yellowM inscribed in a circle:

• entrance 1 -Boulevard de Courcelles - Parc Monceau leading to the right of boulevard at no. 53;
• entrance 2 -Rue de Chazelles located opposite no. 1 of this street, at the corner with the boulevard.

G Street Level
M	Mezzanine for platform connection
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform1	← towardPorte Dauphine(Ternes)
	Platform2	→ towardNation(Monceau) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Courcelles is a standard configuration station. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is of the style used for most metro stations. The lighting canopies are white and rounded in theGaudin style of therenouveau du métro des années 2000 renovation, and the bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls, the vault, the tunnel exits and the outlets of the corridors. The advertising frames are in white ceramic and the name of the station is written in theParisine font on enameled plates. TheAkiko style seats are orange.

The station is served by lines 30 and 84 of theRATP Bus Network.

• Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Paris, seat of the archdiocese ofRussian Orthodox churches in Western Europe.
• L’église Suédoise de Paris, of theLutheran faith.

Fulgence Bienvenüe, father of the Métro, lived near this station.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toCourcelles (Paris Metro).

• Roland, Gérard (2003).Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram. Éditions Bonneton.

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