The station opened as Petits Ménages on 24 March 1934 as part of the extension of the line from Porte de Versailles.

[1] The hospice was relocated from the 7th arrondissement of Paris to Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1863, leaving a large area for the expansion of Le Bon Marché department store.

Its namesake, Corentin Celton (1901–1943), was an employee there and was a member of the French Resistance; he was shot by the Nazis at Fort Mont-Valérien.

The other stations were: Charles Michels, Colonel Fabien, Corentin Cariou, Guy Môquet, Jacques Bonsergent, Marx Dormoy, and Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves.

The station was featured in the first chapter of Je m'en vais, a French novel by Jean Echenoz that received the Prix Goncourt.