Franklin D. Roosevelt is a station of the Paris Métro serving both Lines 1 and 9.
With 12.19m passengers annually, Franklin D. Roosevelt is the fourteenth busiest
station in the Paris Métro system.
Originally, 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 street of the same
name, 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 station was opened and the new station was
renamed Marbeuf–Rond-Point des Champs-Elysees (or more often Champs-Elysees–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 honor of the
American president 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.
October 8, 2018