Cour Saint-Émilion

Cour Saint-Émilion station (French pronunciation: [kuʁ sɛ̃t‿emiljɔ̃]) is a station on line 14 of the Paris Métro. It is named after the nearby Cour Saint-Émilion, a courtyard where former wine warehouses were once a major wine marketplace. The site is currently occupied by Bercy Village, a shopping centre. The station is located at the former freight yard of Gare de Bercy, where trains that transported wine from Southern France to Paris were stored. Initially, the station was to be named Dijon. It was then decided to name it Pommard-Saint-Émilion, after the nearby rue de Pommard and Cour Saint-Émilion. This done to not favour any of the two major French wine regions; Pommard from Burgundy and Saint-Émilion from Bordeaux, avoiding any potential further controversey between the two regions. However, the station's name was ultimately simplified to Cour Saint-Émilion, its current name.

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