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Martin Nadaud (Paris Métro)

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Metro de Paris Ligne 3 Gambetta 02
Metro de Paris Ligne 3 Gambetta 02

Martin Nadaud is a merged station, one of Paris Métro's ghost stations. This station was absorbed into Gambetta following line reorganisation in 1969. During the 1960s, it became evident that Porte de Bagnolet was inadequately served by public transport, although strong demand existed. Therefore planners decided to extend line 3 towards Bagnolet from Place Gambetta . Because the number of travelers to Porte de Bagnolet was expected to be much larger than towards Porte des Lilas, development of a fork was rejected. The planned terminus at Porte des Lilas gave way to one at Bagnolet, with a shuttle comprising line 3a between the Gambetta station and the one at Porte des Lilas. The Gambetta station was extensively redesigned, using the original station as the terminus of line 3a and creating new platforms for line 3. The Martin Nadaud station, only 232 meters from the old station, was absorbed by the new station. Its access and ticketing hall have now become an entrance to the Gambetta station. The entrance is located on Place Martin Nadaud. The new Gambetta station was commissioned 23 August 1969, line 3a was established on 27 March 1971, and the extension to Bagnolet opened to the public on 2 April 1971.

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Martin Nadaud (Paris Métro)
Place Gambetta, Paris 20th Arrondissement (Paris)

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N 48.8649 ° E 2.3981 °
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Place Gambetta 7
75020 Paris, 20th Arrondissement (Paris)
Ile-de-France, France
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Metro de Paris Ligne 3 Gambetta 02
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Communards' Wall
Communards' Wall

The Communards’ Wall (French: Mur des Fédérés) at the Père Lachaise cemetery is where, on May 28, 1871, during "Bloody Week", the final fighting of the Paris Commune, one-hundred and forty-seven fédérés or Commune soldiers, captured by the French army, were executed and buried in a common grave at the foot of the wall, along with another nineteen officers.The Père Lachaise cemetery was established in May 1804 on a land owned by the Jesuits for centuries, and where Père ("Father") Lachaise, confessor of Louis XIV, lived the latter part of his life. The cemetery of the aristocracy in the 19th century, it also received the remains of famous people from previous eras. During the spring of 1871 the last of the combatants of the Commune entrenched themselves in the cemetery. The French Army, which was summoned to suppress the Commune, won control towards the end of the afternoon of May 28, captured the remaining Commune soldiers. As with other prisoners taken during the Commune, those captured with weapons in hand, numbering 147, were lined up and executed. Those executed at the wall also included a group of Commune officers, who had been captured earlier at other locations, imprisoned in two army barracks nearby, tried by military tribunals, sentenced to death, and delivered to the cemetery for execution and burial. This brought the total number to an estimated but unconfirmed 166. They were all buried in the same common grave. The number executed and buried at the wall there is not known exactly, but is estimated at 166 by historian Michele Audin. Other casualties were brought to the cemetery later from other parts of the city and buried in the cemetery. The wall is now the site of an annual commemoration of the Commune and its casualties.