Télégraphe (Paris Métro)

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Télégraphe
Date opened	1935
Accesses
Municipality/ Arrondissement	Paris 19e
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 11 Direction Châtelet Direction Mairie des Lilas Jourdain Porte des Lilas
List of stations of the Paris Métro

Télégraphe is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Rue de Télégraphe.

The Rue de Télégraphe was a chemin de ronde (a raised protected walkway behind a battlement) of the park of the Château de Ménilmontant. Its name comes from the optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe (1763–1805) in 1792. This was the first practical telecommunications system, but was eventually replaced by the electric telegraph. Chappe installed the relay station, containing the telgraph's apparatus which he called a tachygraphe, on this peak of 128 meters altitude.

Paris Métro	Line 11
Châtelet ⇒ 1 4 7 14 A B D • Hôtel de Ville ⇒ 1 • Rambuteau • Arts et Métiers ⇒ 3 • République ⇒ 3 5 8 9 • Goncourt • Belleville ⇒ 2 • Pyrénées • Jourdain • Place des Fêtes ⇒ 7bis • Télégraphe • Porte des Lilas ⇒ 3bis • Mairie des Lilas