2023-09-07 01:38:01
From Monday, September 11, the “Musée d’Orsay” station (Paris V), on the RER C, will see its name enriched with that of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. A tribute to the former President of the Republic (1974-1981), who died in December 2020 at the age of 94, who had been the main architect of the project for a large 19th century arts museum, established in the former Orsay station since 1986.
Valérie Pécresse (LR), the president of the region, Rachida Dati (LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement) and the members of the family of the former president, including Louis Giscard d’Estaing, mayor of Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) , will be present to unveil the new plaque.
Artisan of the creation of the museum
If it was up to the presidency of Georges Pompidou (1969-1974) to have had the Gare d’Orsay classified as a historical monument, built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris and then threatened with demolition, it was indeed VGE that took the official decision to start the works. And it is his successor, François Mitterrand, who will have the honor of inaugurating the Musée d’Orsay on December 1, 1986.
In 2021, the name of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was officially joined to that of the Musée d’Orsay and that of the Musée de l’Orangerie, in Paris. Finally, on May 9, 2023, the Quai de la Seine alongside the museum was renamed “Quai Valéry Giscard d’Estaing”.
Several names of prominent personalities have been added to stations or stations in recent years in Ile-de-France. That of Joséphine Baker, resistance fighter and magazine leader, who died in 1975, was added to the Gaité station (Line 12). Simone Veil, survivor of the death camps, first president of the Council of Europe, and at the origin of the vote of the law on abortion, disappeared in 2017, is present at the Europe station (Line 3 ).
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