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   This #Paris métro station is a steampunk masterpiece.

   Designed by Belgian comics artist François Schuiten, to call to mind one of Jules Verne's submarines or airships.

   Where else can you find secrets of the métro?

   🗼🚇🧵

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     Also try to spot the original édicules, designed by Art Nouveau master Guimard.

     This one's at Abbesses métro station, deepest in the city, in Montmartre.

     Pro tip: contrôleurs like to trap people at the bottom or the top of the spiral staircase, so make sure you've paid your fare!

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     Watch out for "stations fantômes," now closed, but which you can see flashing past on some lines. I got to visit St. Martin, which still has beautiful tile ads from the 1950s.

     Minoru Saba repeated this.