Fontenay-aux-Roses: station history
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
A station in the Hauts-de-Seine, run by the RATP and served by branch B2 of RER B, on the Sceaux line. Its station building dates from 1892 and is almost identical to that of Robinson station; only its shorter side wings set them apart. The station has three entrances: rue Félix-Pécaut, rue Robert-Marchand and avenue Ernest-Lombart.
Anecdote
The station is served by buses 128, 194 (on a specific timetable) and 394, as well as the local shuttle « Le Petit Fontenaisien ». The commune is home to the CEA nuclear research centre, set up in the Fort de Châtillon, where the Zoé pile, France's first nuclear reactor, operated in 1948. Its name stands for « Zéro énergie, Oxyde d'uranium, Eau lourde » (zero energy, uranium oxide, heavy water). The heavy water had been kept safe in Britain during the war, and the pile's building has become an atomic museum.
Around Fontenay-aux-Roses
- Parc Sainte-Barbe, 400 m away — A 1.8-hectare park in the town centre, once the property of the Collège Sainte-Barbe from 1851.
- Château Laboissière, 250 m away — A late-17th-century château built for Denis Thierry, the publisher of La Fontaine's Fables, now a music conservatoire.