Day 5 - Walk #2
It was a little rainy today, so Hanna, Courtney, and I decided to do the Metro walk. We were able to see a lot of the different trains, most of which are the same, but it was cool. On line 14, there is a glass casing over the train, to prevent suicides and accidents, I suppose.
This is the Saint-Lazare Metro Station, looking at the Place du Havre entrance. It is unique in that the ceiling is vaulted. Also, there are a lot of different lines that meet here.
From the book: "Rotonde de la Villette (which this is) is a tollhouse built by Ledoux. In about 1780, the tax collectors convinced Louis XVI that Paris needed to be surrounded by a wall to control imports and collect taxes. The wall was fifteen miles long and eleven feet high, and at each of the sixty 'gates' there was a tollhouse. Ledoux didn't want any two adjacent tollhouses to look alike, and he designed each one to look like an ancient temple or pavilion using 45 different plans. As you may imagine, Parisians deeply resented the 'tax wall' and tollhouses. As the French Revolution began, many tollhouses were attacked, some before the Bastille! Eventually, all but four of the tollhouses were torn down. You're looking at one of the four."
This is one of the many entrances designed by Hector Guimard. Pretty neat.
That pretty much concluded our walk. 2 down, 19 to go!
This is the Saint-Lazare Metro Station, looking at the Place du Havre entrance. It is unique in that the ceiling is vaulted. Also, there are a lot of different lines that meet here.
From the book: "Rotonde de la Villette (which this is) is a tollhouse built by Ledoux. In about 1780, the tax collectors convinced Louis XVI that Paris needed to be surrounded by a wall to control imports and collect taxes. The wall was fifteen miles long and eleven feet high, and at each of the sixty 'gates' there was a tollhouse. Ledoux didn't want any two adjacent tollhouses to look alike, and he designed each one to look like an ancient temple or pavilion using 45 different plans. As you may imagine, Parisians deeply resented the 'tax wall' and tollhouses. As the French Revolution began, many tollhouses were attacked, some before the Bastille! Eventually, all but four of the tollhouses were torn down. You're looking at one of the four."
This is one of the many entrances designed by Hector Guimard. Pretty neat.That pretty much concluded our walk. 2 down, 19 to go!
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