Bercy is a station of the Paris Métro, serving lines 6 and 14
at the intersection of the Boulevard de Bercy and the Rue de Bercy
in the neighbourhood of Bercy and the 12th arrondissement.
The station opened on 1 March 1909 with the opening of the original section
of line 6 from Place d'Italie to Nation (although part of line 5—some dating back
to 2 October 1900—was incorporated into line 6 on 12 October 1942).
The line 14 platforms were opened on 15 October 1998 as part of the original
section of the line from Madeleine to Bibliothèque François Mitterrand.
It is named after the streets it is situated in and the neighbourhood of Bercy,
which is mentioned in a document written in 1134. Over the centuries the
Lords of Bercy built a castle there which eventually covered a third of the
commune of Bercy, which was absorbed into Paris in 1860.
It was the location of the Barrière de Bercy, 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 nineteenth century
October 8, 2018