Cambronne: origin of the name and station history
Served by: metro line 6.
Why this name?
The station takes its name from place Cambronne and rue Cambronne, which honour the First Empire general Pierre Cambronne (1770-1842). Elevated, covered by a glass roof in the style of the canopies of the time, it lies between La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle and Sèvres - Lecourbe, with its entrances at the west end, on the central reservation of boulevard Garibaldi. It opened with the second extension of line 2 South, from Passy to Place d'Italie; its glass roofs were renewed in summer 2014.
Anecdote
According to a 2018 algorithmic study by Florian Sikora, senior lecturer at Paris-Dauphine University, Cambronne is the starting point of the shortest route for riding every line of the Paris metro, a journey that ends at Saint-Fargeau, on line 3 bis.
Around Cambronne
- Champ de Mars, 850 m away — A vast green esplanade stretching to the foot of the Eiffel Tower, laid out for the World's Fairs.
- UNESCO, 500 m away — The headquarters of UNESCO, with its modernist architecture.
- École militaire, 450 m away — A former 18th-century military academy where young Napoleon Bonaparte once studied.