page_title: Paris Métro Line 8
section_title: Themed and unique stations
hierarchical_section_title: Paris Métro Line 8 / Route and stations / Themed and unique stations
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Monument aux morts à la station Richelieu - Drouot du métro de Paris, France.
context_page_description: Paris Métro Line 8 is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It connects Balard in the southwestern part of Paris to Pointe du Lac station in the southeastern suburbs, following a parabolic route on the Rive Droite of the Seine. The last line of the original 1898 Paris Métro plan, which opened in July 1913, it was initially intended to link Porte d'Auteuil and Opéra. With 105.5 million travellers in 2017, it is the network's eighth busiest line; at 23.4 km of length, it is also the second longest Métro Line after Line 13. Along with Line 7, it serves the most stations of any line on the network, at 38. Line 8 interchanges with all but three other Métro lines.
  The line was substantially modified during the 1930s as Line 10 took over the western section. The current route serves the southwestern part of the city, the Grands Boulevards and Bois de Vincennes, ending in the southeastern inner suburbs through the communes of Charenton-le-Pont, Maisons-Alfort and Créteil, which the line reached in 1974 at Créteil – Préfecture station, after several extensions. The underground line was the first to connect the prefecture of one of the new departments of Île-de-France.
context_section_description: La Motte-Picquet – Grenelle's connecting passageways are decorated with coats of arms of the Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte family. A fresco depicting the toll barrier of the Cunette, one of the entrances of the Wall of the Farmers, was previously located here.
  Richelieu – Drouot has a black marble war memorial dedicated to metropolitan railway employees mort pour la France, sculpted by Carlo Sarrabezolles in 1931. The central pillar is a caryatid, who supports the surrounding stone with her raised arms. The caryatid divides the names of subway employees killed during World War I into two half-circles. The monument's base contains the names of the Great War battlefields, and the word "Release" was added to the bottom right after World War II to commemorate employee participation in the French Resistance.
  Bonne Nouvelle was redecorated in a cinematic theme for the Métro's centennial. The station's name is written in the style of the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles.
  Some stations still show signs of difficulty in construction or integration into urban space: 
  Commerce has offset platforms because of the narrowness of the Rue du Commerce.
  The platforms at La Motte-Picquet – Grenelle do not face each other because of the original role of the station, serving the d'Auteuil and Balard branches. The platform to Balard is below and shifted slightly with respect to the Créteil platform.
  Champ de Mars and Saint-Martin are two ghost stations, closed on 2 September 1939.
  République is a part-time terminus.
  Porte de Charenton, an old terminus, has four tracks with platforms: two sidings framed by the two main tracks.
  Charenton – Écoles, another old terminus, includes two tracks with a platform and two sidings.
  Maisons-Alfort – Les Juilliottes, like the two preceding stations, has three tracks with a platform; the middle one is a part-time terminus.
  Créteil – L'Échat and Créteil – Université are two-track stations framing a central platform.
caption: War memorial at Richelieu – Drouot
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