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The station has changed its name several times: Carrefour Marcadet in 1911. Marcadet - Balagny in 1912. Balagny was mayor of Monceau-Batignolles in the nineteenth century. Finally: Guy Môquet January 27, 1946 when the street Balagny was named in tribute to a young french communist activist, shot by the Nazis at the age of seventeen years. At the national commemoration of Guy Môquet of 22 October 2007, the RATP distributes leaflets to travelers spent the subway stations linked to the Resistance. A video is projected onto two LCDs guarded by security guards, and posters on Guy Môquet are exposed. The last letter of Guy Môquet is read in the presence of Secretary of State for Transport Dominique Bussereau and the President of the RATP. Teachers and students opposed to the commemoration demonstrate outside the station.