The station was opened on 27 July 1937 as part of the extension of line 8 from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to Balard.

Avenue Émile Zola on line 10 was also previously called Commerce until it was changed to its present name on 1 March 1937.

The whole span of the street, from Motte-Picquet to the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, is occupied by a mix of high-street shopping, amongst which are about 20 national and international brands, and small, typically Parisian food stores and cafés.

After major real estate development in the 1990s and early 2000s, the street and surrounding neighborhood have managed to maintain much of their peripheral faubourg or small-town feel while prospering as one of the major centers for population attraction in the 15th arrondissement.

The station was renovated as part of the "Renouveau du métro" programme by the RATP on 7 April 2008,[1] removing the previously installed orange tiling when it was first renovated in 1969 in the Mouton-Duvernet style, restoring the traditional bevelled white tiling.