The A13 is France's oldest motorway (opening in 1946) and is intensively used between Paris and Normandy for both commuting and holiday makers.

[1] In addition, Le Havre and Cherbourg were important stopovers for luxury liners at a time when there were few commercial aircraft.

[5] This highway was credited until the 1960s with one star in the Michelin green guide Environs de Paris, because of its absolute modernity and novelty.

The decree of 12 June 1967 declared the construction of the motorway between Rouen (Les Essarts) and Caen to be a public utility.

[1] Since then, it has been connected to the Paris ring road by the Saint-Cloud viaduct overlooking the Seine and by a tunnel under the northern Boulogne-Billancourt, cutting through the garden of Château Rothschild.

[1] As part of the connection of the A86 motorway, the first part of the 10 km tunnel, known as the Duplex A86 [fr], between Rueil-Malmaison and Vaucresson which was put into service in June 2009 ,[6] it was decided to add a fourth lane in both directions and to install acoustic screens between the A13/A86 interchange and the Triangle de Rocquencourt.