La Muette station

La Muette
Paris Métro station
Last MF 67 prior his retirement on December 14, 2016
General information
Location	16th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°51′28″N 2°16′25″E / 48.857718°N 2.273719°E / 48.857718; 2.273719
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	8 November 1922 (1922-11-08)
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Ranelagh towards Pont de Sèvres Line 9 Rue de la Pompe towards Mairie de Montreuil Connections to other stations Preceding station RER Following station Avenue Henri Martin towards Pontoise RER C transfer at Boulainvilliers Avenue du Président Kennedy towards Massy-Palaiseau or Dourdan-la-Forêt
Location
La Muette Location within Paris

La Muette (French pronunciation: [la mɥɛt]) is a station on line 9 of the Paris Métro, in France, named after the Chaussée de la Muette, a nearby street. The station opened on 8 November 1922 with the opening of the first section of the line from Trocadéro to Exelmans.

The Chaussée de la Muette is named after the Château de la Muette, which was converted from a hunting lodge to a small castle for Margaret of Valois, the first wife of King Henry IV of France. The meaning of the name of the hunting lodge is not known. It may have derived from "muete", a spelling which appears frequently up to the end of the eighteenth century and which signifies a pack of deer-hounds (meute); it may have come from the "mues" or horns which stags shed in the autumn; or again from the "mue" or moulting-period of hunting hawks. The old château was demolished in the 1920s to make room for a wealthy housing estate. A new château was built nearby for Baron Henri James de Rothschild (1872–1947) in 1922. This is now the headquarters for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.^[1]

Station layout

Line 9 platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Westbound	← toward Pont de Sèvres (Ranelagh)
	Eastbound	→ toward Mairie de Montreuil (Rue de la Pompe) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Gallery

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  MF 01 rolling stock at La Muette in October 2015

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  MF 01 rolling stock at La Muette in July 2022

Places of interest

Nearby are (closest first):

• Jardin du Ranelagh
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Musée Marmottan Monet, a museum specialising in impressionist works, including a significant collection of paintings by Claude Monet and works by Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
• Bois de Boulogne

References

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This page was last edited on 17 August 2023, at 02:20