Alma-Marceau is a station on Line 9 of the Paris Metro, located on the border of the 8th and 16th arrondissements.
The station opened on 27 May 1923 with the first extension of the line from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin.
It owes its name to the Alma bridge and Alma Square, which commemorate the Battle of the Alma, a Franco-British-Ottoman victory over the Russians in 1854 in Crimea.
The interior of Alma-Marceau metro station
The station also takes the name of Avenue Marceau, named after General François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers (1769-1796), who was a French general of the revolutionary wars.
General François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers
Oil on canvas of François Bouchot, Museum of the Army, 1840.
He died heroically at the age of 27, on 21 September 1796 in Altenkirchen (Rhineland-Palatinate).
One of the two great bas-reliefs of the Arc de triomphe, sculpted by Henri Lemaire in 1833, represents the honours given to General Marceau at his funeral in Altenkirchen.
Bas-reliefs of the arc de triomphe
Bas-relief of the arc de triomphe, Funeral of General Marceau septembre 20,1796
A stone statue of Marceau, made between 1855 and 1857 by Gabriel-Jules Thomas, adorns one of the niches on the ground floor outside the Rohan pavilion at the Louvre.
Statue of Marceau at the Louvre museum
His coffin was transferred to the Paris Pantheon on August 4, 1889, during the ceremonies marking the centenary of the French Revolution.
