Monday is for the metro - Blanche.

At the Blanche métro entrance, Paris still slips underground beneath one of Hector Guimard’s surviving Art Nouveau signs, its curling ironwork looking almost organic against a blue sky. Just beyond lies Pigalle and the Moulin Rouge but the station itself takes its name from Boulevard Blanche, named after Blanche d’Antigny, a 19th-century actress and courtesan whose reputation once coloured this entire neighbourhood...quite some history!

The entrance has become one of the classic Paris métro views, especially when sunlight catches the old cream façades and the green Métropolitain lettering seems lifted from another era entirely.

Happy Monday everyone!

“Every journey begins somewhere — in Paris, it often begins underground.”

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Part of the “Metro Mondays” Series

Each Monday, we travel beneath Paris — tracing its stories, moods, and motion through the tunnels that carry the week into being.

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