[2]: 35  It is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine, which was dedicated to Mary Magdalene in the 18th century.

The advertising frames are metallic and the name of the station is written in Parisine typeface on enamelled plates.

The platforms of line 12 are built in a curve and have a semi-elliptical vault, a shape specific to the old North-South stations.

As with line 8, these fittings are combined with the flat white tiling on the side walls, the vault and the tunnel exits.

The advertising frames are metallic and the name of the station is written in Parisine font on enamel plates.

The name of the station appears in Parisine font on backlit panels embedded in the side walls and on stickers affixed to the platform facades.

Offered to France by the president of the International Franco-Romanian Foundation, the sculptor Remus Botar Botarro, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Constantin Brâncuși (1876-2001), this identical copy was made in the Noack art foundry in Berlin, in 2000, from a silicon rubber moulding.

Each disc measures 16 cm in diameter and represents a stylized papyrus sheet coloured in red, white, blue and orange.