George V station

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

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
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	1 August 1900; 124 years ago
Previous names	Alma (1900–1920)
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Charles de Gaulle–Étoile towards La Défense Line 1 Franklin D. Roosevelt towards Château de Vincennes
Location George V Location within Paris

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.

Access

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

Platforms

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

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.

• 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

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

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