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The original building, now the western wing.
Place du 8 Mai 1945; 10th Arrondissement - Version Française
A Bit of History
The Gare de l'Est provides the only witness left from the first generation of railway buildings.
The square in front of the station was occupied between the XIIIth and the XVIIIth
century by the Saint-Laurent Fair or Carnival, mentioned by an inscription situated in the
left wing corner pavilion. The original building, now the western wing, was built
between 1847-1850 by François-Alexandre Duquesney with the help of the engineer
Pierre Cabanel de Sermet, and served the line Paris-Strasbourg,
functioning since 1844. Streets in the neighborhood still recall the origins of the
first passengers : Boulevard de Strasbourg, Rue d'Alsace and so forth.
Its name was changed from
Gare de Strasbourg to Gare de l'Est in 1854. The growing traffic brought several extensions,
including the building of the present eastern wing, copied symmetrically on the original
station between 1924-1931 by the engineer Bertaud. Today, trains leave from here for
eastern France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
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1. The main departure hall.
2. Another perspective.
Architecture
The western wing, actually the original building, finds itself in
axis with the Boulevard de Strasbourg, the main avenue leading to the center of Paris.
The statues represent the cities of Strasbourg - by Philippe-Henri Lemaire, and, of
Verdun - by Varenne (1930). This last artist is also the author of the decoration of the
right clock, representing the rivers Marne and Meuse, while on the other side, the Seine
and the Rhine were sculpted by Jean-Louis Brian.
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3. Exterior detail.
4. Ticketing hall of the western wing
Representations of agricultural products
and coat of arms of the 32 most important cities of eastern France decorate the access
arcade. In the ticketing hall of the western wing, a large painting signed by Alfred Herter (1926)
shows the soldiers of 1914 leaving for the front.
