Breguet - Sabin is a station of the Paris Metro on line 5 , in the 11th arrondissement of Paris .

The station was opened in 1906 . 

 

The station's name pays tribute to the family Breguet (or Breguet), including a Swiss watchmaker

Abraham Louis Breguet (1747-1823), who was the inventor of automatic winding watches for

astronomy.  

 

His grand-son Louis (1804 -1883) invented the electric telegraph and radio and worked with Chappe.

Later, his great-grand-son Anthony (1851-1882) devised an electric anemometer.  

 

The latter's son was the famous aviation pioneer Louis Charles Breguet (1880-1955) whose plane

piloted by Costes and Bellonte crossed the Atlantic from east to west in 1930.

 

The station name is also a tribute to Angelsme Saint-Sabin, who was an alderman of Paris in 1977.