Havre – Caumartin, metro station in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France

Havre - Caumartin is an underground station serving two central lines, located at the corner of Rue de Caumartin and Boulevard Haussmann. Nearby, the four entrances lead down to two sets of platforms, with line 3 running under Rue Auber and line 9 sitting deeper under the boulevard.

The Line 3 platforms date from October 1904, when the first section of that route opened between Avenue de Villiers and Père Lachaise. The Line 9 side was added in June 1923, when the line was extended from Saint-Augustin to Chaussée d'Antin-La Fayette.

The name mixes the nearby Rue du Havre, referring to the Norman port city, with the surname of François Le Fèvre de Caumartin, an 18th-century merchant whose street still cuts past the station entrance. Around the surface, the flow of people shifts between department store shoppers, office workers, and theatergoers.

Allow a little time to move between the two lines, since line 9 is deeper and the corridors are busier during shopping hours. If you are heading to the nearby train station, follow the signs carefully because the exits face different streets.

The annual passenger count here surpasses six million, making this ordinary-looking transfer point one of the busiest stops in the Paris network. Few visitors realize that standing on the line 3 platform puts them almost directly below the end of a shopping street named after the merchant who gave the station part of its name.