Saint-Jacques: where the name comes from

Named after the old faubourg Saint-Jacques.

The station lies where the boulevard Saint-Jacques crosses the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques and the rue de la Tombe-Issoire. On 1 April 2016 it was jokingly renamed Coquille for a day, after the coquille Saint-Jacques, the scallop. It opened in 1906.

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Sources

Faubourg Saint-Jacques Wikipédia
Boulevard Saint-Jacques Wikipédia
Saint-Jacques (métro de Paris) Wikipédia
Saint-Jacques station Wikipedia (English)

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