It was purchased in 1842 by a surveyor called Couesnon whose son subdivided it, creating the district of Plaisance between 1858 and 1860, which became one of the largest slums in Paris.

[1] The station opened on 21 January 1937 as part of the initial section of the old line 14 between Porte de Vanves and Bienvenüe (today known as Montparnasse–Bienvenue).

As part of the "Un métro + beau" programme by the RATP, the station's corridors and platform lighting were renovated and modernised on 8 November 2002.

[2] On 24 December 2018, a woman committed suicide at the station, interrupting traffic on the line between Montparnasse-Bienvenüe and Châtillon–Montrouge for over two hours in the evening.

The lower portion of the side walls are vertical instead of elliptical due to the narrower width of the road it lies beneath.