Porte d'Orléans

The Porte d'Orléans owes its name to the fact that the road coming from Orleans, known today as Route nationale 20, led there.

This axis was of great importance to the Middle Ages to the cohesion of the emerging monarchy as Paris and Orleans were then the two main cities of the royal domain.

This event was an important step in realizing the oath that Leclerc had done before his men after the Battle of Kufra in 1941, that he would not lay down his arms until the French flag flew once again from the Strasbourg Cathedral.

It is the starting point of the current National Highway 20 which connects Paris to the border Spanish, via Orleans, Toulouse and Bourg-Madame .

Furthermore, the axis ex-RN 20 - Avenue du General Leclerc is both a principal axis for the Police Headquarters (presidential and prison convoys), but also one of two entry points south of Paris (with the Porte d'Italie) for abnormal loads (the OCL - LAC - the tram is also 50 cm lift for trucks high template).

The Porte d'Orléans
The Porte d'Orleans in the early twentieth century was already a transportation hub. From 1893 to 1937, the Arpajonnais, a meter gauge passengers line ran to Les Halles in Paris.