George V station

Paris Métro station

George V

Station platforms

General information
Location| 101, av. des Champs-Élysées
118, av. des Champs-Élysées
8th arrondissement of Paris
Île-de-France
France
Coordinates| 48°52′19″N 2°18′02″E﻿ / ﻿48.87194°N 2.30056°E﻿ / 48.87194; 2.30056
Owned by| RATP
Operated by| RATP
Other information
Fare zone| 1
History
Opened| 1 August 1900; 124 years ago (1900-08-01)
Previous names| Alma (1900–1920)
Services
| Preceding station  |  Paris Métro | Following station

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Charles de Gaulle–Étoile

towards La Défense

|  | Line 1 |  | Franklin D. Roosevelt

towards Château de Vincennes

Location

George V

Location within Paris

This article is about the Paris Métro station. For the Docklands Light Railway station, see King George V DLR station.

George V (French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɛ̃k] ⓘ) is a station on Line 1 of the Paris Métro, under the Champs-Élysées.

## History

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The station was opened on 13 August 1900, almost a month after trains began running on the original section of Line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot on 19 July 1900. It was originally called Alma, after the nearby street named in honour of the Battle of Alma in the Crimean War.

On 27 May 1920 the street and station were renamed after George V of the United Kingdom in appreciation of the United Kingdom's support for France during World War I. The station entrance is located between Rue de Bassano and Avenue George V on the Champs-Élysées.

Like most of the stations on the line, between May 1963 and December 1964, the platforms were extended to 90 metres to accommodate trains of six cars with pneumatic bearings, intended to cope with severe chronic overloads. This extension is carried out by means of a crypt, as in five other stations, at the western end of the platforms in case. At the time, walls were clad in metal panels with white horizontal pillars and illuminated gilded advertising frames, later supplemented by yellow Motte style seats.

On November 21, 2003, to celebrate U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Buckingham Palace, Bush's "admirers" renamed the station George W - Sovereign of Great Britain with name plate stickers.[1]

As part of the automation of Line 1, the stopping point was renovated with the removal of the metalwork from the piers, and the platforms were raised between 29 October to 2 November 2008 to accommodate screen doors, which were installed by February 2011.

On September 19, 2022, the RATP replaced half of the nameplates on the platforms, for one day, to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, whose funeral took place on the same day. The station was renamed "Elizabeth II", the British sovereign being the granddaughter of King George V honoured at the station. The Queen's name appears in capital letters with the words "1926 - 2022" written below in smaller characters, all on a black background as a sign of mourning instead of the usual midnight blue of the RATP name signs.[2]

## Passenger services

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### Access

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The station has two entrances on either side of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées:

* Access 1 - Champs-Élysées, consisting of a fixed staircase adorned with a stone balustrade by the architect Joseph Cassien-Bernard, located to the right of no. 118 of the said avenue;
* Access 2 - Avenue George-V, consisting of a fixed staircase doubled by an escalator, located opposite no. 101, between Avenue George-V and Rue de Bassano.

In the access corridors to the platforms, some signs indicating the list of stations on the line to each terminus have the particularity of using the Helvetica font, tested in some stations of the network in the 1990s before the creation of the Parisine typography, which would later be generalized to all RATP signage.

### Station layout

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Street Level |

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M | Mezzanine for platform connection

Line 1 platforms | Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right
Platform 1 | ←  toward La Défense – Grande Arche (Charles de Gaulle – Étoile)
Platform 2 | → toward Château de Vincennes (Franklin D. Roosevelt)→
Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right

### Platforms

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George V is a standard station: it has two platforms 90 metres long separated by the metro tracks located in the centre and the vault is elliptical. A 15-metre-long crypt, whose ceiling rests on closely spaced pillars, has extended the stations length at its western end since the line was switched to six-car trains in the 1960s. The decoration is in the style used for the majority of metro stations, combined with the specific layouts of this line since its automation. The lighting canopies are white and rounded in the Gaudin style of the Metro Renewal of the 2000s, and the bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls, the vault and the tunnel exits and corridor outlets. The vault of the crypt is painted white, while its columns are covered with small dark tiles. The advertising frames are made of white ceramic and the name of the station is inscribed in Parisine font on backlit panels, most of which are incorporated into wooden boxes. The platforms are equipped with green Akiko seats and have half-height screen doors.

### Bus connections

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The station is served by line 73 of the RATP Bus Network and, at night, by lines N11 and N24 of the Noctilien bus network.

## Nearby

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* Avenue des Champs-Élysées
* Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris - Île-de-France region
* Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet's
* Hotel George V, Paris
* Hotel Prince de Galles
* Le Lido (cabaret)
* Jardin de l'Hôtel-Salomon-de-Rothschild

## See also

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* Similarly named places:
* King George V DLR station, London
* Nearby stations:
* Charles de Gaulle–Étoile
* Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wikimedia Commons has media related to George V (Paris Metro).

## References

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1. ^ "Urban Resources : George W Bush Paris metro station". urban-resources.net. Archived from the original on 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
2. ^ "Funérailles d'Élisabeth II : le métro parisien rend hommage à la Reine d'Angleterre". France 3 Paris Ile-de-France (in French). 2022-09-19. Archived from the original on 2022-10-01. Retrieved 2024-03-25.

* Roland, Gérard (2003). Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram. Éditions Bonneton.

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8th arrondissement of Paris

Neighbourhoods|

* Quartier des Champs-Élysées
* Quartier du Faubourg-du-Roule
* Quartier de la Madeleine
* Quartier de l'Europe

Primary and secondary schools|

* Lycée Chaptal
* Lycée Racine
* Cours Hattemer
* Lycée Fénelon Sainte-Marie

Colleges and universities|

* Intégrale : Institut d'enseignement supérieur privé

Landmarks|

* Arc de Triomphe (partial)
* Armenian Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
* Avenue Hoche
* Champs-Élysées
* Petit Palais
* Grand Palais
* Élysée Palace
* Four Seasons Hotel George V
* Hôtel de Crillon
* Hôtel de Marigny
* Hôtel de la Marine
* La Madeleine
* Musée Bouilhet-Christofle (closed)
* Musée Cernuschi
* Musée Jacquemart-André
* Musée Nissim de Camondo
* Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
* Palais de la Découverte
* Parc Monceau
* Pinacothèque de Paris (closed)
* Place Charles de Gaulle
* Place de la Concorde
* Luxor Obelisk
* Pont Alexandre III
* Pont de l'Alma
* Pont de la Concorde
* Pont des Invalides
* Saint-Augustin
* The Scots Kirk
* Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
* Théâtre du Rond-Point

Paris Métro stations|

* Alma–Marceau
* Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau
* Charles de Gaulle–Étoile
* Concorde
* Courcelles
* Europe
* George V
* Liège
* Madeleine
* Miromesnil
* Monceau
* Place de Clichy
* Rome
* Saint-Augustin
* Saint-Lazare
* Saint-Philippe du Roule
* Ternes
* Villiers

SNCF station|

* Gare Saint-Lazare

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Line 1

Stations|

* La Défense
* Esplanade de La Défense
* Pont de Neuilly
* Les Sablons
* Porte Maillot
* Argentine
* Charles de Gaulle–Étoile
* George V
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau
* Concorde
* Tuileries
* Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre
* Louvre–Rivoli
* Châtelet
* Hôtel de Ville
* Saint-Paul
* Bastille
* Gare de Lyon
* Reuilly–Diderot
* Nation
* Porte de Vincennes
* Saint-Mandé
* Bérault
* Château de Vincennes

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