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Saint-Augustin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿oɡystɛ̃] ⓘ) is a station on Line 9 of the Paris Métro. Named after Place Saint-Augustin (itself named after Saint-Augustin church), the station opened on 27 May 1923 with the line's extension from Trocadéro. It is located in the 8th arrondissement.
The Église Saint-Augustin de Paris (French pronunciation: [eɡliz sɛ̃t‿oɡystɛ̃ də paʁi]; English: Church of St. Augustine) is a Catholic church located at 46 boulevard Malesherbes in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The church was built between 1860 and 1871 by the Paris city chief architect Victor Baltard.
52 Rue Saint-André-des-Arts The Rue des Grands-Augustins is a street in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 6th arrondissement of Paris , France. Louis XIII received the sacrament in the Rue des Grands Augustins, one hour after the assassination of his father Henry IV .
This continuity, putting together several connections from the Saint-Augustin station to the Opera station, is the longest of the Paris metro. [8] Since 2011, the mosaic La Voix lactée by Quebec artist Geneviève Cadieux has been installed in the connecting corridor connecting line 14 to line 9 (Saint-Augustin station). [9]
The present name dates from 1770 and comes from the Maison Saint-Lazare toward which it led (via the rues Lamartine, Bleue, and Paradis) and which had been used as a leprosarium since the Middle Ages; it was converted into Saint-Lazare Prison in 1793. It stood at the current location of no. 117 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, in the 10th ...
The street was one of the centres of the June Rebellion of 1832, immortalised in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, and which is referred to in the book as the "Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis". [1] The street contains clothes shops, bars and restaurants, the church of Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles, a bank, and the Chambre des notaires building.
Saint-Georges (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɔʁʒ]) is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro in the 9th arrondissement. The station opened on 8 April 1911 as part of the extension of the Nord-Sud company's line A from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Pigalle. On 27 March 1931 line A became line 12 of the Métro.
Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ tɔma dakɛ̃]) is a Roman Catholic church located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin, between the rue du Bac and the boulevard Saint-Germain.