Mabillon: origin of the name and station history
Served by: metro line 10.
Why this name?
The station takes its name from rue Mabillon, in tribute to Jean Mabillon (1632-1707), a Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, writer, scholar and editor of religious texts. It was for a time the eastern terminus of line 10, replacing Croix-Rouge, closed since 1939: that ghost station lies between Mabillon and Sèvres - Babylone. Mabillon is curved, close to place d'Acadie, on boulevard Saint-Germain, and to Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Anecdote
The honey-coloured faience advertising frames and the name built into the wall ceramics recall the original CMP style. Exit no. 1, rue de Montfaucon, has a staircase with a Dervaux-style railing and lamp-post.
Around Mabillon
- Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 190 m away — The oldest church in Paris, a remnant of an abbey founded in the 6th century.
- Marché Saint-Germain, 80 m away — A historic covered market converted into a modern shopping space, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
- Café de Flore, 300 m away — A legendary café frequented by Sartre and Beauvoir, a hub of 20th-century Parisian intellectual life.