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Location | Rue La Fayette 9th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France |
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Coordinates | 48°52′37″N 2°20′54″E / 48.87708°N 2.34845°ECoordinates: 48°52′37″N 2°20′54″E / 48.87708°N 2.34845°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | RATP | ||||||||||
Operated by | RATP | ||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
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Opened | 5 November 1910 | ||||||||||
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Poissonnière is a station on Line 7 of the Paris Métro. The station was opened on 5 November 1910. It is near the junction between the streets of Rue La Fayette and the Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, after which it is named and along which fishmongers (French: "poissonnières") brought fish from Boulogne and other harbours on the Channel coast to the market at Les Halles in chasse-marées. The route from the coast generally followed that of a Roman Road and entered nineteenth century Paris at the Porte des Poissonniers.
This station has three entrances on Rue La Fayette and features a 1960s-style yellow neon metro sign.