Télégraphe (Paris Métro)

Infobox Paris metro
Name=Télégraphe
Day=April 28
Year=1935
Access=
Municipality=Paris 19e
Zone=1
Next=
X=206
Y=49

Télégraphe is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the "Rue de Télégraphe".

The Rue de Télégraphe was 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 telgraph's apparatus which he called a "tachygraphe", on this peak of 128 meters altitude.