Maisons-Alfort-Les Juilliottes: station history
Served by: metro line 8.
Did you know?
The name is said to come from the young women who picked mushrooms in July in old quarries, called « les juilliottes »; according to another source it derives from the former « terres de Juliotte ». The district was originally wasteland and small spoil heaps from these quarries, and a group of housing, offices and a small shopping centre was built there in the 1970s. The station lies under avenue du Général-Leclerc, near the interchange with the A86 motorway, on the border of Créteil.
Anecdote
Designed as a terminus originally, with a three-track tunnel beyond, it is a cage-type station with three tracks framing two island platforms, in a covered cut. Its 1970s decor combines reverse-bevelled tiles in ochre tones, a white ceiling and suspended lighting with a red frame; exit 3 opens onto a dead end and a motorway slip road, which cuts it off from the district it was meant to serve.
Around Maisons-Alfort-Les Juilliottes
- École Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, 1200 m away — The world's oldest veterinary school still in operation, founded in 1766.
- Bois de Vincennes, 1800 m away — Paris's largest green space, with a lake, zoo and racecourse, reachable from Maisons-Alfort.
- Mairie de Maisons-Alfort, 230 m away — The Maisons-Alfort town hall, a Val-de-Marne town at the confluence of the Marne and the Seine.