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The first station at Saint Lazare was 200 metres (656 ft) northwest of its current position, called Embarcadère des Batignolles. The station was opened by Marie-Amélie (wife of Louis-Philippe of France) on 24 August 1837. The first line served was the single track line to Le Pecq. In 1843 St-Lazare was the terminus for three lines; by 1900 ...
The station offers connections to the following other stations: Gare Saint-Lazare , Haussmann–Saint-Lazare on RER E, Havre–Caumartin on Line 3 and Line 9, in addition to Saint-Augustin on Line 9. The station is named after the mainline railway station, which is situated in Rue Saint-Lazare. It is in the commercial centre of Paris, near the ...
Haussmann–Saint-Lazare station (French pronunciation: [osman sɛ̃ lazaʁ]) is a station on the RER in Paris, France. Opened on 14 July 1999 as the terminus of the new Line E , it is situated beneath Boulevard Haussmann and directly connected to Gare Saint-Lazare , Auber , and two metro stations.
Rue Saint-Lazare, a street in Paris; Gare Saint-Lazare, a railway station in Paris Réseau Saint-Lazare, a network of railway lines originating from Gare Saint Lazare; Saint-Lazare (Paris Métro), a railway station in Paris; Saint-Lazare Prison, Paris
The Paris–Saint-Lazare–Saint-Germain-en-Laye line is a 20.4 km (12.7 mi) long double-track suburban railway line in France, connecting Paris-Saint-Lazare station (8th arrondissement of Paris) to Saint-Germain-en-Laye station, in the Yvelines department. It is now designated as line no. 975 000 of the national rail network.
The word comes from Italian: lazzaretto [laddzaˈretto], derived the name of Santa Maria di Nazareth, the Venetian island where this type of institution was founded in 1423 - the passage from "nazzaretto" to "lazzaretto" was probably influenced by the previous use to dedicate hospitals for lepers to Saint Lazarus. Originally it was conceived as ...
The second, third and fourth letters indicate the stations served by the train. Formerly, the second letter was used to designate the train type ( I for express trains, A for semi-express trains, O for local trains), but this is no longer the case (but most all stops trains of Line J keep the O as the second letter).
The military order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem originated in a leper hospital founded in the twelfth century by crusaders of the Latin Kingdom. There had been earlier leper hospitals in the East, of which the Knights of St. Lazarus claimed to be the continuation, in order to have the appearance of remote antiquity and to pass as the oldest of all orders.