Charonne (Paris Métro)

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Charonne

Date opened

1933

Accesses

Municipality/
Arrondissement

Paris 11e

Fare zone

Next stations

Paris Métro Line 9
Direction Pont de Sèvres	Direction Mairie de Montreuil
Voltaire	Rue des Boulets

List of stations of the Paris Métro

Charonne is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Rue de Charonne and the district of Charonne. In 1008, Robert II of France the Pious gave Charonne to the Abbey of Saint-Magloire, but it changed hand over the centuries. A small locality developed around the castle of Charonne, which was largely annexed by Paris in 1860.

[edit] The Charonne metro station massacre

During the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) most French politicians came to accept the need to grant Algeria its independence. Only the Organisation armée secrète (OAS; Secret Armed Organization) continued to resist independence. The Left called for a demonstration on 8 February 1962 to denounce the OAS and the Algerian war. The Paris Police led by Maurice Papon repressed this demonstration, as it had done on 17 October 1961 (when between 32 and 200, mainly Algerian people, are estimated to have been killed). Demonstrators tried to take refuge in the mouth of the Charonne metro station, but it had been closed. Eight people were suffocated and a ninth died from wounds in hospital. For more details see: Paris massacre of 1961.

Paris Métro

Line 9

Pont de Sèvres • Billancourt • Marcel Sembat • Porte de Saint-Cloud • Exelmans • Michel-Ange — Molitor ⇒ 10 (eastbound) • Michel-Ange — Auteuil ⇒ 10 (westbound) • Jasmin • Ranelagh • La Muette • Rue de la Pompe • Trocadéro ⇒ 6 • Iéna • Alma — Marceau • Franklin D. Roosevelt ⇒ 1 • Saint-Philippe du Roule • Miromesnil ⇒ 13 • Saint-Augustin ⇒ 14 • Havre — Caumartin ⇒ 3 A E • Chaussée d'Antin — La Fayette ⇒ 7 • Richelieu — Drouot ⇒ 8 • Grands Boulevards • Bonne Nouvelle • Strasbourg — Saint-Denis ⇒ 4 8 • République ⇒ 3 5 8 11 • Oberkampf ⇒ 5 • Saint-Ambroise • Voltaire • Charonne • Rue des Boulets • Nation ⇒ 1 2 6 A • Buzenval • Maraîchers • Porte de Montreuil • Robespierre • Croix de Chavaux • Mairie de Montreuil