Quai de la Rapée: Usine d'un métropolitain

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The building of the power plant of the Paris Metro. Built in 1904 by architect. Paul Friesé. The huge building length of 145 meters and 7000 square meters has been specially built on the banks of the Seine because coal supplies convenience. Now here building RATP headquarters (general Paris transport operator), built in 1996. The same architect Paul Friesé built a series of underground substations, which have been preserved until now. Native Alsatian, confident in the fact that Alsace should belong to France, he volunteered in the 60 years went to the front, where he was wounded, and in 1917 died of his injuries.