Colonel Fabien () is a station on

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, on the border of the

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and 19th arrondissements under the ''Boulevard de la Vilette''.

Location

The station is located under Boulevard de la Villette, to the southeast of

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. Oriented approximately along a northwest/southeast axis, it is positioned between the ''Jaurès'' and ''Belleville'' metro stations. In the direction of ''Porte Dauphine'', this is the last underground station before the above-ground section of the line.

History

The station was opened on 31 January 1903 as part of the extension of line 2 from

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to ''Bagnolet'' (now called

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). It was originally named ''Combat'' after the ''Place du Combat'', which was named after the ''Barrière du Combat'', a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the

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; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished after the

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of 1871. Its name reflected the animal fighting held there between 1778 and 1850. On 19 August 1945, the ''Place'' and station were renamed after Colonel Pierre-Georges Fabien, who shot a German soldier to death at Barbès – Rochechouart metro station, marking the beginning of the armed

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in Paris. As part of the RATP '' Renouveau du métro'' program, the station was renovated in the course of the 2000s. In 2020, with the COVID-19 crisis, 2,378,863 passengers entered this station, which places it at the 94th position of metro stations for its use.

Passenger services

Access

The station has a single entrance called ''Boulevard de la Villette'', leading to the central median of this boulevard facing no. 83. Made up of a fixed staircase, it is adorned with a Guimard entrance designed in 1900 and is registered as a historical monument by the decree of 29 May 1978.

Station layout

Platform

Colonel Fabien 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 the majority of the metro stations, with beveled white ceramic tiles covering the walls, the vault, the tunnel entrances, and the outlets of the corridors, while the lighting is provided by two tube canopies. The advertising frames are metallic, and the name of the station is written in

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font on enameled plates. The seats are the ''Motte'' style in blue.

Bus connections

The station is served by lines 46 and 75 of the RATP Bus Network.

References

Paris Métro stations in the 10th arrondissement of Paris Paris Métro stations in the 19th arrondissement of Paris Railway stations in France opened in 1903 {{Paris-metro-stub