The station opened on 13 August 1900, almost a month after trains began running on the initial section of Line 1 between
Porte de Vincennes and
Porte Maillot on 19 July 1900. The station was the site of the first accident on the métro. On 19 October 1900, a current capture fault between the
contact shoe on the train and the
third rail resulted in a short circuit that started a fire. It caused a collision with the following train, injuring 29 passengers and 1 driver. Line 12's platforms opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the
Nord-Sud Company's Line A between
Porte de Versailles and
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.
Ezra Pound wrote in 1914 that his famous
Imagist poem, "
In a Station of the Metro", was inspired by his impressions upon exiting a train at Concorde three years earlier. Line 8's platforms opened on 12 March 1914 as part of the initial section of the line from
Beaugrenelle (now
Charles Michels on
Line 10) to
Opéra, seven months after the opening of the initial section of the line on 12 July 1913 as the platforms at
Concorde and
Invalides were not completed at the time. The original Nord-Sud decor of Line 12's station was removed in 1991 when it was redecorated by a new artwork by the artist Françoise Schein. The name of the station was also inscribed using the same letters albeit on navy blue tiles. The platforms' vault are covered with horizontal and vertical bands of navy blue tiles and have a speckled-grey tiling on its floors. Numerous metro stations around the world have also been designed with the same theme in mind by the same artist such as:
Luz in
São Paulo,
Parvis de Saint-Gilles in
Brussels,
Parque in
Lisbon, and
Westhafen in
Berlin. Up until 1997, Line 8's station had a single dead-end track alongside the platform towards
Pointe du Lac. It was removed to create offices. Over the weekend of 13–14 June 2009, Line 1's platforms were closed to raise its platform levels for the installation
platform screen doors to improve passenger safety and for its eventual automation; it was installed in October 2010. As part of the "Un métro + beau" programme by the
RATP, between 11 April to 30 June 2016, Line 8's platforms and lighting were renovated and modernised, requiring a closure of its platforms during that time. In 2019, the station was used by 6,115,023 passengers, making it the 58th busiest of the Métro network out of 302 stations. In 2020, the station was used by 2,617,251 passengers amidst the
COVID-19 pandemic, making it the 75th busiest of the Métro network out of 304 stations. In 2021, the station was used by 3,401,219 passengers, making it the 86th busiest of the Métro network out of 304 stations. == Passenger services ==