Porte de Clignancourt

About

The gate of Clignancourt, sometimes called Porte Ornano, is one of the 17 gates pierced in the enclosure of Thiers, a fortification built in the middle of the 19th century to protect Paris, in France.

Situation and access: The Porte de Clignancourt is today an important entrance located north of Paris, bordering Saint-Ouen, served by the Peripheral Boulevard and the National 14. Line 4 of the Paris metro has its terminus. Since November 24, 2018, it has also been served by the Ile-de-France tram line 3b.

On August 7, 1918, during World War I, a shell fired by Grosse Bertha exploded on the fortifications between the Montmartre and Clignancourt gates on the Saint-Ouen side. This chamber, destroyed after the First World War, enjoyed an inconstructible space, the Zone, which was urbanized in the inter-war period, notably by the construction of the HBMs of the City of Paris. It was at the gate of Clignancourt that the "public enemy number one", Jacques Mesrine, was shot down on November 2, 1979, so that he did not engage on the device.