Franklin D. Roosevelt (Paris Métro)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃klɛ̃ ʁuzvɛlt]) is a station of the Paris Métro serving both Line 1 and Line 9. With more than 12 million passengers annually, Franklin D. Roosevelt is the fourteenth busiest station in the Paris Métro system.[1]

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Paris Métro station
Line 1 platforms
Location	27, av. des Champs-Élysées 35, av. des Champs-Élysées 40, av. des Champs-Élysées 44, av. des Champs-Élysées 3, rond-point des Champs-Élysées 7, rond-point des Champs-Élysées 60, av. Montaigne 8th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°52′08″N 2°18′36″E
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	19 July 1900 (1900-07-19) (Line 1) 27 May 1923 (1923-05-27) (Line 9)
Previous names	Marbeuf (1900–1942) Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées (1923–1942) Champs-Élysées–Marbeuf (1942–1946)
Services
Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station George V toward La Défense Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau toward Château de Vincennes Alma – Marceau toward Pont de Sèvres Saint-Philippe du Roule toward Mairie de Montreuil
Location
Franklin D. Roosevelt Location within Paris

History

Originally, the stations on the two lines were separate. The Line 1 station opened as part of the first stage of the line between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot on 19 July 1900 and was called Marbeuf. It was named after the Rue Marbeuf, which in turn was named after the Marquise de Marbeuf, who had developed the area in the 1770s and was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.

The Line 9 station opened when the line was extended from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin on 27 May 1923 and was called Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées or just Rond-Point. On 6 October 1942 a connection between the two stations was opened and the new station was renamed Marbeuf–Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées (or more often Champs-Élysées–Marbeuf). This new station became Franklin D. Roosevelt station in 1946 when the nearby Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III was renamed Franklin D. Roosevelt Avenue, in honour of Franklin D. Roosevelt who had been an ally of France during World War II, as opposed to Victor Emmanuel III, the king of Italy who, although allied with France during the First World War, had fought against France as king of Fascist Italy during the Second World War.

The station was renovated after the Second World War and the work introduced a new artistic technique known as "gemmail", which is often called "block glass" or "glass brick" in English. Sometimes it is also called a "station musée" (station-museum). While one can find some of the glass brick along the platform for Line 9, more of it can be found in along the platform serving Line 1. The inauguration of the finished station involved a large ceremony on the night of 1 March 1957, with two ramps equipped with tables of food for the invited guests.

As part of the automation project on Line 1, the Line 1 platforms were completely renovated in 2008.

Attractions

• Access to the Petit and Grand Palais
• Beginning of the large amount of department stores on the Champs-Élysées (Virgin, Cartes IGN, etc.)
• Access to the tree-lined part of the Champs-Élysées

Station layout

Street Level

B1	Mezzanine for platform connection

Line 1 platforms	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right
	Platform 1	← toward La Défense – Grande Arche (George V)
	Platform 2	→ toward Château de Vincennes (Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau) →
	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right

Line 9 platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← toward Pont de Sèvres (Alma – Marceau)
	Platform 1	→ toward Mairie de Montreuil (Saint-Philippe du Roule) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Gallery

• 
  Updated station signage after 2011 renovation.
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  Station entrance.
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  Ticket concourse.
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  Line 1 platforms during automation programme in March 2008.
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  Line 1 signage.
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  Line 9 platforms.
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  Line 9 signage.
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  Line 9 on a strike day in 2007.

References

1. STIF statistics report Archived 17 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine STIF Retrieved 2007-11-24

• Roland Pozzo di Borgo, Les Champs-Élysées: trois siècles d'histoire, 1997
• Gérard Roland, Stations de Métro. Paris: Bonneton éditeur, 2003. 231 pp. Revised and expanded edition, ISBN 2-86253-307-6.

External links

• Media related to Franklin D. Roosevelt (Paris Metro) at Wikimedia Commons