Gare de l'Est, Paris

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1. Story
2. The Paris terminus the Express d'Orient left on 4 October 1883 with around two dozen passengers. It matters which station: the Gare de l'Est serves the eastward main lines through Strasbourg into the German network, and the 1883 route ran Paris–Strasbourg–Munich–Vienna–Budapest–Bucharest–Giurgiu. When that corridor became politically unusable after 1918 the successor service moved across Paris to the Gare de Lyon and took the Swiss and Italian route instead. A station choice encodes a geopolitical alignment.
3. Knowledge
4. Paris
5. Gare de l'Est, Paris
6. Connections
7. Paris
8. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
9. Orient Express
10. Gare de l'Est, Paris
11. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
12. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
13. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
14. Evidence
15. 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.
16. Supports the 1883 routing via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest to Giurgiu, with a Danube ferry to Ruse, a second train to Varna and a steamer to Constantinople, and about two dozen passengers on the first departure. V55 verification basis: this routing was carried in an attributed search summary of the article; the page was not fetched, and the passenger count is not traced to a manifest.