The station is open Trocadero in 1900. The Place du Trocadero owes its name to the battle of the Trocadero, fortified site of the Bay of Cadiz who was abducted by French troops commanded by the Duke of Angoulême, August 31, 1823. He was also given this name to the palace built by East Davioud and Bourdet for the Universal Exhibition of 1878. It was demolished in 1937 and replaced by the current Palais de Chaillot, which houses the Museum of Man, Navy, french Monuments and Cinema. The station was equipped before 1914, one of the first escalators, it will remain until 1959, and a balustrade of Cassian-Bernard, as well as access Guimard on the central reservation was abolished in 1936.