The station opened on 21 March 1947, four years after the commissioning of the extension of line 5 from Gare du Nord to Eglise de Pantin.

It used the characteristic typography of the comic strips by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, its creators.

It was humorously renamed "AbraracOurcqcix", a reference to one of the characters in the comics, Abraracourcix, the chief of the village where Asterix and Obelix belongs.

The advertising frames are red and cylindrical, and the name of the station is written with the Parisine typeface on enamelled plates.

Since the late 1980s, the station features a Thierry Grave sculpture exhibit made of limewood in a niche on the walls of the platform towards Bobigny-Pablo Picasso.