Charles Michels (Paris Métro)

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Charles Michels
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 Javel - André Citroën Avenue Émile Zola
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of Metro station

Charles Michels is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Place Charles Michels.

[edit] History

Until 1945, the station was named Beaugrenelle station, after Beaugrenelle Place, the former name of Place Charles Michels. "Beaugrenelle" (beautiful Grenelle) was a name given by property developers in the district of Grenelle during its urbanisation and it was renamed after Charles Michels (1903-1941), who was elected as a Communist Député of the 15th arrondissement of Paris. He was arrested in 1940 and then shot by the Nazis on October 22, 1941 with 26 other hostages, including Guy Môquet (also the name of a metro station) and Jean-Pierre Timbaud, in Châteaubriant, (Loire-Atlantique).

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