Edgar Quinet station

Edgar Quinet is a station on Line 6 of the Paris Métro. Located at the intersection of Boulevard Edgar Quinet, the Rue du Montparnasse and Rue de la Gaîté, it is situated in the .
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: Paris Métro station
  • Also known as: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Montparnasse Tower and Gare Montparnasse.

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Tour Maine-Montparnasse, also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre office skyscraper in the area of , France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre in the business district west of Paris's city limits. is situated 250 metres northwest of Edgar Quinet station.

Railway station
Photo: Gunnar Klack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, officially Paris Montparnasse and formerly Gare de l'Ouest, is one of the seven large Paris railway termini, and is located in the and . is situated 450 metres west of Edgar Quinet station.

Theater building
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The is a theatre in in France located at 6, rue de la Gaîté in the . It is owned by the Edgar Entertainment Society, which also owns the Edgar Café and the Edgar Theatre located at 58 Edgar-Quinet Boulevard in the same borough.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montparnasse and 14th arrondissement.

Suburb
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is an area in the south of , , on the of the river , centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

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Although largely residential, the is best known for its northeastern quartier Montparnasse, for the Paris Catacombs and the Parc Montsouris.

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As with itself, the is hard to write about without using superlatives. There's a bit of everything here, from the busy sidewalks of Paris' main art Gallery scene to the expansive green spaces and under-tree cafés of the Jardin…

Edgar Quinet station

Latitude
48.84111° or 48° 50′ 28″ north
Longitude
2.32507° or 2° 19′ 30″ east
Operator
RATP
Network
Métro de Paris
Open location code
8FW4R8RG+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6539671936
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q1284106
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Satellite Map

Discover Edgar Quinet station from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Edgar Quinet station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدغار كينيه”
  • Basque: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Breton: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Chinese: “埃德加·基内”
  • Chinese: “埃德加·基内站”
  • Czech: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Dutch: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Esperanto: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Finnish: “Edgar Quinet”
  • French: “Edgar Quinet”
  • German: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Hungarian: “Edgar Quinet metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Italian: “Edgar Quinet (Metropolitana di Parigi)”
  • Italian: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Japanese: “エドガール・キネ駅”
  • Lombard: “Edgar Quinet (metropolitana de Paris)”
  • Lombard: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Norwegian: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Polish: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Portuguese: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Portuguese: “Estação Edgar Quinet”
  • Russian: “Эдгар Кине”
  • Russian: “Эдгар Кинэ”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de Edgar Quinet”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Edgar Quinet”
  • Turkish: “Edgar Quinet”
  • Urdu: “ایڈگر کوئنیٹ اسٹیشن”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Edgar Quinet and Place Stéphane Hessel.

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