Gare Saint-Lazare: Overall view of the west entrance

Paris Saint-Lazare is one of the six large terminus train stations of Paris. It is the second busiest in Paris, behind the Gare du Nord, handling 274,000 passengers each day. The line (opened 1837) runs to Le Havre through Rouen. The Gare Saint-Lazare terminal facade and the attached H\u00F4tel Terminus was built for the Exposition Universelle of 1889. It has been represented in a number of artworks (particularly the earlier train shed). It attracted artists during the Impressionist period and many of them lived very close to the Gare St-Lazare during the 1870s and 1880s.