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Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [palɛ ʁwajal myze dy luvʁ]) is a station on Line 1 and Line 7 of the Paris Métro. Situated in the heart of the 1st arrondissement, it most notably serves the Palais-Royal, Comédie-Française and Louvre.
Palais Royal station (right) on a 1903 postcard; the Guimard entrance has yet to receive the arch with lights and "Métropolitain" sign, and instead is identified by a temporary wooden sign.
The Palais-Royal (French: [pa.lɛ ʁwa.jal]) is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre .
Louvre station has replicas of works of art from the museum and has historical information. The station's benches are made of glass and the Western portal has Roman-inspired arches along the platform edge. The Hôtel de Ville (Paris City Hall) and the Marais district. Bastille and the nearby Opera. Gare de Lyon train station. The Place de la ...
Stations are often named after a square or a street, which, in turn, is named for something or someone else. A number of stations, such as Avron or Vaugirard, are named after Paris neighbourhoods (though not necessarily located in them), whose names, in turn, usually go back to former villages or hamlets that have long since been incorporated into the city of Paris.
Experiments were made with both tiled and enameled nameplates on line 8 stations between Porte d'Auteuil and Opéra, and in the newly constructed (in 1916) line 7 stations Pyramides and Palais-Royal. The CMP rolled out its final chosen design in 1921 in three newly built line 3 (now 3bis) stations from Gambetta to Porte des Lilas. Primarily ...
An entrance to the Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre Métro station, serving lines and , is on the Place Colette. It was redesigned by Jean-Michel Othoniel as the Kiosque des noctambules (Kiosk of the night-walkers), completed in October 2000 for the centenary of the Métro.
The station is located under Rue de Rivoli, west of its intersection with Rue du Louvre. Approximately oriented east–west, it is inserted between the Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre and Châtelet metro stations.