Montparnasse – Bienvenüe (Paris Métro)

Montparnasse – Bienvenüe
Paris Métro station
Location	59 bis, 71, 73, boul. du Montparnasse Rue de l'Arrivée, mall Tour Maine Montparnasse Gare Montparnasse 31, av. du Maine 2, pl. Bienvenüe 1/3, rue du Départ 14th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°50′36″N 2°19′23″E / 48.843466°N 2.323072°E / 48.843466; 2.323072Coordinates: 48°50′36″N 2°19′23″E / 48.843466°N 2.323072°E / 48.843466; 2.323072
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	24 April 1906 (1906-04-24)
Services
Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station Vavin toward Mairie de Montrouge Saint-Placide toward Porte de Clignancourt Pasteur toward Charles de Gaulle – Étoile Edgar Quinet toward Nation Falguière toward Mairie d'Issy Notre-Dame-des-Champs toward Front Populaire Gaîté toward Châtillon – Montrouge Duroc toward Asnières – Gennevilliers – Les Courtilles or Saint-Denis – Université
Location
Montparnasse – Bienvenüe Location within Paris

Montparnasse – Bienvenüe (French pronunciation: ​[mɔ̃paʁnas bjɛ̃vəny]) is a station of the Paris Métro which is a transfer point between lines 4, 6, 12 and 13. It is the fourth busiest station on the metro system and is located in Montparnasse at the intersection of the 6th, 14th and 15th arrondissements.

Montparnasse – Bienvenüe station is located at the intersection of the 6th, 14th, and 15th arrondissements of Paris. Nearby are the Montparnasse district, the Tour Montparnasse office tower, the Musée Bourdelle (art museum), the Montparnasse Cemetery, the Musée de La Poste (postal museum) and the Jardin Atlantique (a rooftop garden on the roof of the Gare Montparnasse).

On 24 April 1906 the station opened as Montparnasse station in the Avenue du Maine at the southern end of the old Gare Montparnasse (at the site currently occupied by the Tour Montparnasse, before it was moved south of the Avenue du Maine in the 1960s) with the opening of the extension of line 2 Sud from Passy to Place d'Italie. On 14 October 1907 line 2 Sud became part of line 5. On 11 March 1910 the Montparnasse station was renamed Avenue du Maine and on 30 June 1933 it was renamed Bienvenüe in honour of the principal engineer of the Paris Métro, Fulgence Bienvenüe (accounting for the unusual diaeresis in the station's name). On 12 October 1942 the section of line 5 between Étoile and Place d'Italie, including Bienvenüe was transferred from line 5 to line 6 in order to separate the underground and elevated sections of the metro (because the latter were more vulnerable to air attack during World War II).