Trocadéro: station history
Served by: metro lines 6 and 9.
Did you know?
Served by lines 6 and 9, in the 16th arrondissement, the station lies under place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre. Its name recalls the battle of the Trocadéro, the capture of a fort near Cadiz by the French army, which the Chaillot hill ended up evoking, and the Trocadéro palace, built for the 1878 Universal Exhibition. Only the line 9 station carries the subtitle « Tour Eiffel ». Each of the two lines has its own platforms.
Anecdote
Trocadéro was one of the first stations on the network to be equipped with escalators, installed before 1914 and in service until 1959. The Guimard edicule that marked its entrance was removed in 1936, and the main entrance is decorated with a balustrade by Joseph Cassien-Bernard, architect of the 1900 Exhibition. On line 9, the green Andreu-Motte style is kept almost intact: light ramps, benches, tympana and seats in that colour.
Audio guide
The Museum of Man, from prehistory to the present day
Installed in 1938 at the Palais de Chaillot, facing the Eiffel Tower, it extends the Trocadéro Museum of Ethnography. Its founder, Paul Rivet, wanted to tell the story of all humanity, from prehistory to the present day.
From the summer of 1940, its rooms housed one of the very first Resistance networks. Boris Vildé, Anatole Lewitsky, Yvonne Oddon and their comrades wrote the underground newspaper "Résistance". 📰 Denounced and dismantled in 1941, the network paid a heavy price: seven men were shot at Mont-Valérien in February 1942. Yvonne Oddon, deported, will survive.
Renovated and reopened in 2015, the museum now takes visitors from the first men to contemporary societies, with a terrace that offers one of the most beautiful views of the Eiffel Tower.
Around Trocadéro
- Tour Eiffel, 800 m away — An iconic view of the Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro esplanade, between the two wings of the Palais de Chaillot, one of the most photographed spots in Paris.
- Musée des Monuments Français, 400 m away — A panorama of French architecture and sculpture through 6,000 life-size casts, in the Palais de Chaillot's Paris wing.
- Jardins du Trocadéro, 300 m away — Gardens sloping toward the Seine, adorned with fountains and gilded statues, laid out for the 1937 World's Fair.
- Musée de l'Homme, 170 m away — A museum of anthropology and prehistory, housed in the Palais de Chaillot, devoted to human evolution and cultural diversity.