# Bercy station (Paris Métro)

Bercy station (French pronunciation: ) is a below-ground station on lines 6 and 14 of the Paris Métro. It is located at the intersection of the Boulevard de Bercy and the Rue de Bercy in the 12th arrondissement. West of the station, Line 6 goes above ground and crosses the Seine to the Rive Gauche on the Pont de Bercy.

## History

The station opened on 1 March 1909 when Line 6 was opened from Nation to Place d'Italie. (Line 6 was extended from Place d’Italie to Etoile in 1942.). The Line 14 platforms opened on 15 October 1998 as part of the original section of the line from Madeleine to Bibliothèque François Mitterrand.
The station is named after the Rue de Bercy and the Boulevard de Bercy whose intersection lies above it. The intersection is on the site of the Barrière de Bercy, one of the gates in the Wall of the Farmers-General (1784-1860), where taxes were collected on goods brought into the city. The Rue and the Boulevard were named after the commune of Bercy, which upon its creation in 1790 stretched along the Seine from the present-day Boulevard de Bercy to Charenton-le-Pont, much of it controlled during the Middle Ages by the lords of Bercy. When Paris annexed its near suburbs in 1860, the commune was partitioned and Bercy became a district in the new 12th arrondissement bounded by what is now the Boulevard de Bercy, Boulevard de Charenton, Boulevard Péripherique, and the Seine.
From 1972 to 1974, during the pneumatisation of Line 6, the Gare de Paris Bercy, located south of the station, was used to carry out this work.
On 16 July 2018, several name signs of the station are temporarily replaced to celebrate the victory of the France national football team at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, as in five other stations. Bercy was humorously renamed Bercy les Bleus (for "Merci les Bleus") as a thank you to the players of the French team.

## Passenger services
### Access

The station has several exits:
* Access 1, "Bercy Arena": two stairs and an elevator Place du Bataillon-du-Pacifique;
* Access 2, "Rue Corbineau": a staircase at 48, Boulevard de Bercy;
* Access 3, "Gare de Bercy": a fixed staircase on the Rue de Bercy, odd side and two fixed stairs each lined with an escalator on the even side.

### Station layout

| G | Street Level | Exit/Entrance |
| B1 | Mezzanine | to Exits/Entrances |
| B2 | Side platform, doors will open on the right | Side platform, doors will open on the right |
| B2 | Westbound | ← toward Charles de Gaulle–Étoile (Quai de la Gare) |
| B2 | Eastbound | → toward Nation (Dugommier) → |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right ||
| B3 | Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right | Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right |
| B3 | Northbound | ← toward Saint-Denis–Pleyel (Gare de Lyon) |
| B3 | Southbound | → toward Aéroport d'Orly (Cour Saint-Émilion) → |
| Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right ||

### Platforms

The platforms of the two lines are of standard configuration. Two per stopping point, they are separated by the metro tracks located in the centre. A connection connects the two tunnels, between the track direction Mairie de Saint-Ouen of Line 14 and the track direction Étoile of Line 6.
Line 6 station has an elliptical vault. The decoration is of the style used for most Métro stations, bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls, vault and tunnel exits, while lighting is provided by two tube-canopies. The advertising frames are metallic; the name of the station is inscribed in Parisine font on enamelled plaques. The platforms are equipped with wooden slatted benches.
The architecture of the station of Line 14 follows the principles defined by Bernard Kohn for the whole of Line 14 since 1991, both in the choice of materials (light concrete ceilings, wood on the walls, floor tiles) and for lighting and ceiling height. The platforms are also wider than those of the other lines. The name of the station is written in Parisine font on backlit panels embedded in the walls and on stickers affixed to the platform facades.

## Nearby

* The office complex of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance (Ministère de l'Économie et des Finances), each nicknamed simply "Bercy", is located to the west of the station.
* Accor Arena (formerly Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy or POPB), a major sports and music arena, is located to the south of the station.
* The Parc de Bercy extends southeast of the Arena on 14 ha (35 ac) between the Rue de Bercy and the Seine. The Arena was built in the 1980s and the Parc in the 1990s on the site of the Entrepôts de Bercy, a complex of wine warehouses that grew up outside the tax wall in the early 19th century.
* The Cinémathèque Française, formerly the American Center, designed by Frank Gehry, is 400 meters east on the Rue de Bercy.
* East of the station, on the Boulevard de Bercy, is the Gare de Paris-Bercy-Bourgogne-Pays d'Auvergne (formerly the Gare de Bercy), serving medium-distance domestic rail services to Avallon via Laroche-Migennes, Sens and Auxerre. Between the two is the Gare de Bercy bus terminal.

## Gallery

* Street-level entrance at Bercy
* MP 73 rolling stock on Line 6 at Bercy
* Line 14 platforms at Bercy
* Access to Line 14 platforms
* Line 14 platform (2008, view then towards Saint-Lazare)
* Line 14 platform (view towards Olympiades)