Saint-Philippe du Roule station

Saint-Philippe du Roule is a station on line 9 of the Paris Métro. The station opened on 27 May 1923 with the extension of the line from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin. The village of Roule, which became a suburb in 1722, was a small locality called Romiliacum by Frédégaire, Crioilum by Saint Eligius, then Rolus in the 12th century.

Access
The station has two entrances divided into three metro entrances on Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt:
 * Access 1 - Rue La Boétie, consisting of a fixed staircase embellished with a mast with a yellow "M" inscribed in a circle, leading to the right of no. 30 of the avenue;
 * Access 2 - Franklin D. Roosevelt Avenue, consisting of a fixed stairway entrance also equipped with a yellow "M" mast and an exit by an ascending escalator, located back-to-back facing No. 69.

Platforms
Saint-Philippe-du-Roule is a standard station. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is in the Andreu-Motte style with two orange light canopies, benches, tunnel exits, and corridor openings treated with flat orange tiles as well as Motte seats in the same colour. These fittings are combined with the bevelled white ceramic tiles covering the walls and vault. The advertising frames are made of honey-coloured earthenware and the name of the station is also made of earthenware, in the style of the original CMP. It is one of the few stations that still features the Andreu-Motte style in its entirety.

Bus connections
The station is served by lines 28, 32, 52, 80 and 93 of the RATP Bus Network.

Nearby
North of the station is the fashionable street of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and the church of Saint-Philippe du Roule. A chapel was established in the district of Bas-Roule, near a leprosarium. It was replaced by a more important church, which was built by Jean Chalgrin between 1774 and 1784. The church of Saint-Philippe du Roule was built in the style of a Greco-Roman basilica. It was enlarged by Godde in 1845 and Victor Baltard in 1860. Its pediment, representing Religion and its attributes, is by François-Joseph Duret.