Paris

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1. Story
2. Western terminus of the Orient Express and of most of its successors, and a useful reminder that a "terminus" in a city with several main-line stations is a commercial decision rather than a geographical one. The 1883 Express d'Orient left the Gare de l'Est, which faces east toward Strasbourg and the German network. When the 1919 Versailles settlement closed that alignment politically, the reconstituted Simplon Orient Express left instead from the Gare de Lyon, facing southeast toward Switzerland and Italy. The train did not merely change route; it changed which side of Paris it belonged to.
3. Knowledge
4. Paris
5. Connections
6. Orient Express
7. Gare de l'Est, Paris
8. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
9. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
10. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
11. Evidence
12. Supports the 4 October 1883 first departure from the Gare de l'Est and the service's operation by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. V55 verification basis: the SNCF archives page was returned as a search result and is a railway-archive source, but it was not fetched and the specific wording was not read.