Boissière is a station of the Paris Métro serving line 6 at the intersection
of the Rue Boissière and the Avenue Kleber in the 16th arrondissement.
The station opened on 2 October 1900 as a branch of line 1 from Étoile to
Trocadéro. On 5 November 1903 this line was extended to Passy and the
line from Étoile to Trocadéro and Passy became known as line 2 South as
part of a planned ring line around central Paris to be built under or over
the boulevards built in place of the demolished Wall of the Farmers-General.
This circle is now operated as two lines: 2 and 6. On 14 October 1907 the
line from Étoile to Trocadéro, Place d'Italie and Gare du Nord became part of
line 5.
On 6 October 1942 the section of line 5 from Étoile to Place d'Italie, including
Boissière, was transferred to line 6.
In 1730, Rue Boissière was a road out of the city which was an extension of
the Rue de la Croix-Boissière (French for "street of the wooden cross") inside Paris.
Its name came from the custom of remembering the crucifixion by hanging up
boxwood on Palm Sunday.
The station is close to the location of the Barrière des Réservoirs, 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