Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Date opened	1998
Municipality/ Arrondissement	the 13th arrondissement of Paris
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 14 Direction Saint-Lazare Direction Olympiades Cour Saint-Émilion Olympiades
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of Metro station

Bibliothèque François Mitterrand is a station of the Paris Métro and RER, named after former French president François Mitterrand and serving the area surrounding the new building of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), whose site near the station is also named after Mitterrand. It is a transfer point between Line 14 of the Paris Metro and the RER C.

[edit] History

The station was opened in 1998 when Line 14 was first opened. Its architecture is the work of Antoine Grumbach, a different architect from the one who designed the other stations of Line 14. In the hall where one transfers between the two transit lines, the steps of the stairs are arranged in the arc of a circle and are marked with the letters of different humanistic writings.

From the opening of Line 14 until 25 June 2007, this station functioned as the line's southern terminus. Further work extended the line to a new station to the southwest, Olympiades, which opened on 26 June 2007.

It is expected that the line will eventually be extended to the station Maison Blanche and will take over the southern branch of Line 7 that terminates at Villejuif - Louis Aragon.

When the station was opened, the station Masséna of the RER C was closed and replaced by this station in order to permit the transfer between the métro and RER lines.

[edit] Nearby Attractions

This station serves the area known as Tolbiac between the Seine and the train tracks of the network of the Gare d'Austerlitz, which includes the BnF and the headquarters of the Réseau Ferré de France (the French equivalent of the UK's Network Rail), the BnF's large new cinema, etc.

From this station, it is possible to reach on foot via the rue de Domrémy the church of Notre-Dame de la Gare on the place Jeanne d'Arc.

[edit] See also

• List of stations of the Paris Métro
• List of stations of the Paris RER

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Coordinates: 48°49′47.36″N 2°22′36.41″E / 48.8298222°N 2.3767806°E / 48.8298222; 2.3767806