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26-710: Saint-Lazare or St. Lazare may refer to: Places [ edit ] France [ edit ] Rue Saint-Lazare , a street in Paris Gare Saint-Lazare , a railway station in Paris Réseau Saint-Lazare , a network of railway lines originating from Gare Saint Lazare Saint-Lazare (Paris Métro) , a railway station in Paris Saint-Lazare Prison , Paris Canada [ edit ] Saint-Lazare, Quebec ,

52-622: A new three-level shopping mall with 80 shops opened inside the passenger hall. The Gare Saint-Lazare is situated in the 8th arrondissement , in a very dense business and shopping area of Paris. The Gare Saint-Lazare has been represented in a number of artworks. It attracted artists during the Impressionist period and many of them lived very close to the Gare St-Lazare during the 1870s and 1880s. Édouard Manet lived close by, at 4 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg. Two years after moving to

78-486: A suburb of Montreal St. Lazare, Manitoba , an unincorporated community Other uses [ edit ] Pierre Bertholon de Saint-Lazare (1741–1800), French physicist See also [ edit ] Autun Cathedral ( Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun ), Autun, France Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Saint-Lazare . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

104-591: Is a street in the 8th and 9th arrondissements of Paris , France. It starts at 9 Rue Bourdaloue and 1 Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and ends at the Place Gabriel-Péri and the Rue de Rome. This street already existed in 1700 under the name of Rue des Porcherons or Rue d'Argenteuil, and connected the villages of Roule and Ville-L’Évêque to the village of Porcherons. In 1734, it was still only lined with few buildings. The present name dates from 1770 and comes from

130-470: Is able to turn a normally dirty and gritty place into a peaceful and beautiful scene…You can hear the trains rumbling in, see the smoke billow up under the huge roofs…that is where painting is today…our artists have to find the poetry in train station, the way their fathers found the poetry in forests and rivers". "Monet’s work on the Gare Saint-Lazare is unparalleled in its evocation of steam and

156-649: Is the last scene in Paris where Kevin Kline's character is being chased by Police Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon ( Jean Reno ) while trying to board a train south to Cannes (which is an inaccuracy since the Gare Saint-Lazare serves the North-West of France; trains for Cannes depart from the Gare de Lyon ). The Gare Saint-Lazare is served by regional TER Normandie trains toward Normandy, as well as regional Transilien trains to

182-558: The Salon de Paris , because of their rejection of the academies' teachings of form, style, subject matter etc., so instead they decided to open a new exhibition on their own Impressionist Exhibition in April 1874. Claude Monet 's depiction of this train station is an astonishing composition in which the hard-edged discs of the railroad signals hover above a rapidly scribbled swirl of blue and rose clouds of steam, with scrolled white edges, while

208-642: The Gare Saint-Lazare serves as the backdrop to much of the story's action. In 1998 the Musée d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., put on an exhibition called "Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare". The Gare Saint-Lazare is mentioned or plays a role in Émile Zola 's La Bête humaine and Roland Sadaune's Terminus St-Lazare . The Gare Saint-Lazare is seen in the 1995 film French Kiss with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan . It

234-529: The Maison Saint-Lazare toward which it led (via the rues Lamartine, Bleue , and Paradis) and which had been used as a leprosarium since the Middle Ages ; it was converted into Saint-Lazare Prison in 1793. It stood at the current location of no. 117 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, in the 10th arrondissement . A ministerial decision of 12 Fructidor V (29 August 1797) set the minimum width of

260-551: The area he showed his painting The Railway , (also known as Gare Saint-Lazare ) at the Paris Salon in 1874. Painted from the backyard of a friend's house on the nearby rue de Rome, this canvas, now in the National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C., portrays a woman with a small dog and a book as she sits facing us in front of an iron fence; a young girl to her left views the railroad track and steam beyond it. At

286-452: The bridge with the ironworks diagonally crossing the picture to the right, with a scene of partially interacting figures on the bridge to the left, the latter depicts the iron structure of the bridge face-on in a strong close-up of its industrial geometry, with three male figures to the left side of the painting all looking in different directions (the Pont de l'Europe is a massive bridge spanning

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312-642: The late 1880s. One of these is The Pont de l'Europe and Gare Saint-Lazare from circa 1888 (in the Baltimore Museum). An engraving showing the Place de l'Europe bridge at the time of its opening in 1868 was made by Auguste Lamy. In 1932, the wasteland behind the station became the subject of one of the most celebrated photographs of all time, Henri Cartier-Bresson 's Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare . In Raymond Queneau 's 1947 book Exercises in Style ,

338-430: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint-Lazare&oldid=975933654 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rue Saint-Lazare The Rue Saint-Lazare

364-488: The present, with all its irregularities and "unaesthetic" components, and their rejection of the past, with its Academy-sanctioned conventions. Lesser-known artists who depicted the Gare Saint Lazare were Jean Béraud , who painted The Place and Pont de l'Europe in 1876-78 and Norbert Goeneutte (1854–1894), with a studio providing a very good view of the Pont de l'Europe, who painted this scene many times in

390-419: The railroad. Le Quartier de l'Europe, where artists like Claude Monet and Gustave Caillebotte spent a lot of time and painted was, in short, a paradigm of modern Paris; the forward-looking young artists who called it home, and who had consciously dedicated themselves to the interpretation of modern life, included in their work recognizable references to their neighborhood as a sign of both their commitment to

416-449: The railyard of the newly expanded station, which at that time had an iron-work trellis). In 1877, painter Claude Monet rented a studio near the Gare Saint Lazare. That same year he exhibited seven paintings of the railway station in an impressionist painting exhibition. He completed 12 paintings of this subject . Oscar-Claude Monet's series of the Gare Saint-Lazare train station was one of his most famous series in his lifetime. Monet

442-621: The seven large mainline railway station terminals in Paris , France . It was the first train station built in Paris, opening in 1837. It mostly serves train services to western suburbs, as well as intercity services toward Normandy using the Paris–Le Havre railway . Saint-Lazare is the third busiest station in France, after the Gare du Nord and Gare de Lyon . It handles 290,000 passengers each day. The current station building opened in 1889 and

468-468: The site of the Hotel Terminus, was used for unloading luggage. The Cour de Rome, in front of the station on the west side, encompassed the old Impasse d’Argenteuil, which opened onto the Rue du Rocher. Gare Saint-Lazare The Gare Saint-Lazare ( French pronunciation: [ɡaʁ sɛ̃ lazaʁ] ; lit.   ' Saint Lazarus station ' ), officially Paris Saint Lazare , is one of

494-574: The sketchy, angular drawing of the tracks and buildings provides contrast. The flat, opaque circle of the largest signal, placed dead center and thickly painted, is so insistent that it turns the picture into a near-abstraction. The Gare Saint-Lazare piece was shown at the Third Impressionist Exhibition. The Gare Saint-Lazare is very different from Monet's previous paintings of harbors, boats and oceans that viewers had seen before. The Gare Saint-Lazare series of paintings lead

520-401: The smoke-filled station. In spite of the impressionist style, the work reproduces accurately the topography of the area, even allowing one to deduce the precise point where the artist was standing while painting. This is the first time an artist had showed a single theme through a series of variations" The Gare Saint-Lazare itself, a monument to the last word in state-of-the-art transportation,

546-513: The street at 10 metres (33 ft). This width was increased to 11 metres (36 ft) by a royal decree of 3 August 1838. An order of 3 September 1843 declared the public utility of expansion to 20 metres (66 ft) to the right of the properties at nos. 115–121 to create the Cour du Havre . The Gare Saint-Lazare was built in 1837. An alley, the Impasse Bony, created in 1826 and located at

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572-522: The time of its first exhibition it was caricatured and the subject of ridicule. Gustave Caillebotte also lived just a short walk away from the station. He painted Le Pont de l’Europe (The Bridge of Europe) in 1876 (now in the Petit Palais, Musée d’Art Moderne in Geneva, Switzerland) and On the Pont de l'Europe in 1876-80 (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth). While the former picture looks across

598-413: The viewers through a tour of the train station in different points of the day. "Monet exemplifies the modern life, in all its chaos and instability", The steam coming from the trains creates a way of dissolving the train and showing the impressionistic style of blending colors and light. Everything dissipates with the steam of the train and turns into a flurry of blended colors. As said by Émile Zola, "Monet

624-418: Was designed by architect Juste Lisch ; the maître d'œuvre (general contractor) was Eugène Flachat . The first station at Saint Lazare was 200 metres (656 ft) northwest of its current position, called Embarcadère des Batignolles . The station was opened by Marie-Amélie (wife of Louis-Philippe of France ) on 24 August 1837. The first line served was the single track line to Le Pecq . In 1843 St-Lazare

650-575: Was one of the most important and influential painters in the Impressionist movement in the 19th century. He was a strong proponent of plein-air landscape painting. Artists such as Gustave Caillebotte , Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot , do this in order to accurately portray the scene in the moment instead of creating the painting from what they could remember. Monet and others who followed the Impressionism Movement were not accepted in

676-421: Was the terminus for three lines; by 1900 this number had tripled. The station had 14 platforms in 1854 after several enlargements, and now has 27 platforms sorted in six destination groups. On 27 April 1924 the inner suburban lines were electrified with 750 V DC third rail . The same lines were re-electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead wires in the 1960s. On 21 March 2012,

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