Lourmel (Paris Métro)

Lourmel
Date opened 27 July 1937 (1937)
Municipality/
Arrondissement
the 15th arrondissement of Paris
Fare zone 1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 8
Direction
Balard
Direction
Créteil – Préfecture
Balard Boucicaut
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of metro station

Lourmel is a station on line 8 of the Paris Métro.

The station was opened on 27 July 1937 as part of the extension of line 8 from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to Balard. The station is named after the Rue de Lourmel, named after General Frédéric Henri Le Normand de Lourmel, who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman where the Franco-British armies defeated the Russian armies under Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov during the Crimean War.

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