Javel - André Citroën (Paris Métro)

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Javel - André Citroën
Date opened	1913
Accesses
Municipality/ Arrondissement	Paris 15e
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 10 Direction Boulogne-Pont de Saint-Cloud Direction Gare d'Austerlitz Église d'Auteuil Charles Michels
List of stations of the Paris Métro

Javel - André Citroën is a station of the Paris Métro, serving Line 10 and offering transfer to the RER C via Javel RER station.

West of this station Line 10 splits into separate eastbound and westbound sections until Boulogne - Jean Jaurès station.

[edit] History

It was originally called Javel after the town that developed out of a hamlet called Javetz in 1485, which had a small port and boat yard. In 1785, Claude Louis Berthollet discovered the active ingredient in household bleach, sodium hypochlorite. He developed a bleach from a caustic chlorine-potash solution and by 1789 he had built a bleach plant in Javel, which he sold as eau de Javel.

In recent years the name of the car-manufacturer, André Citroën has been added to the station's name. A former Citroën car factory south of the station on the bank of the Seine has been turned into an innovative urban park, the Parc André Citroën.

Paris Métro

Line 10

Boulogne — Pont de Saint-Cloud • Boulogne — Jean Jaurès ⇔ Eastbound → Michel-Ange — Molitor ⇒ 9 • Chardon Lagache • Mirabeau → Westbound ← Porte d'Auteuil • Michel-Ange — Auteuil ⇒ 9 • Église d'Auteuil ← ⇔ Javel — André Citroën • Charles Michels • Avenue Émile Zola • La Motte-Picquet — Grenelle ⇒ 6 8 • Ségur • Duroc ⇒ 13 • Vaneau • Sèvres — Babylone ⇒ 12 • Mabillon • Odéon ⇒ 4 • Cluny — La Sorbonne ⇒ B C • Maubert — Mutualité • Cardinal Lemoine • Jussieu ⇒ 7 • Gare d'Austerlitz ⇒ 5 C