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Blanche;
Date opened	21 October 1902
Accesses	59, boul. de Clichy
Municipality/; Arrondissement	the 9th arrondissement of Paris ;
Fare zone	1
Next stations
	Paris Métro Line 2
Direction; Porte Dauphine	Direction; Nation
Place de Clichy	Pigalle
List of stations of the Paris Métro
	Location of Metro station

Blanche is a station of the Paris Métro, serving Line 2 on the border of the 9th and the 18th arrondissement. The station is located under the Boulevard de Clichy in Montmartre.

The station was opened on 21 October 1902 as part of the extension of line 2 from Étoile to Anvers. The station was not ready for the opening of the line two weeks earlier, so trains passed without stopping. The station is named after the Place Blanche (French for "white place"), which derives its name from the gypsum that spilled in the 17th century from the wagons leaving the Montmartre quarries, where it was mined to produce plaster of Paris. The Place was named after the Barrière Blanche, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished in the 19th century.

The station serves the Moulin Rouge.