Télégraphe station
| Paris Métro station | |||||||||||
Line 11 platforms towards Mairie des Lilas | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 19th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°52′32″N 2°23′54″E / 48.875463°N 2.398434°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RATP | ||||||||||
| Operated by | RATP | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 (2 side platforms) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Station code | 23-15 | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 28 April 1935 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 1,194,040 (2020) | |||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Télégraphe (French pronunciation: [teleɡʁaf]) is a station on Line 11 of the Paris Métro in the 19th and 20th arrondissements. It is named after the nearby rue de Télégraphe, which was once a chemin de ronde (a raised protected walkway behind a battlement) of the park of the Château de Ménilmontant. Its name comes from the optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe (1763–1805) in 1792. This was the first practical telecommunications system, but was eventually replaced by the electric telegraph. Chappe installed the relay station, containing the telegraph's apparatus which he called a tachygraphe, on this peak of 128 meters altitude.