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Louis Blanc station

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Station Métro Louis Blanc Lignes 7 & 7bis Paris X (FR75) 2022 06 18 2
Station Métro Louis Blanc Lignes 7 & 7bis Paris X (FR75) 2022 06 18 2

Louis Blanc (French pronunciation: [lwi blɑ̃]) is a Paris Métro station on line 7 and 7bis (serving as the western terminus of Paris Métro Line 7bis). The station is named after rue Louis Blanc, which honours Louis Blanc (1811–1882), who published political works, which led to the foundation of the French Socialist Party. He was a member of the Provisional Government of 1848 and had exiled himself to London during the Second Empire from 1848 to 1870. He was then elected to the French National Assembly in 1870. The station has two island platforms and two side platforms, a layout rarely found elsewhere in the Métro.

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Louis Blanc station
Rue Louis Blanc, Paris 10th Arrondissement (Paris)

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75010 Paris, 10th Arrondissement (Paris)
Ile-de-France, France
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Station Métro Louis Blanc Lignes 7 & 7bis Paris X (FR75) 2022 06 18 2
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