These dimensions were planned to accommodate trains of seven cars, a project which did not materialise, except temporarily on line 8 during the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931 which was held in the Bois de Vincennes.

In addition, it was in this station that a young Frenchman Jacques Fesch was disarmed and arrested on 25 February 1954, after fleeing following the robbery of a Bureau de change, followed by the murder of a police officer,[2] crimes that led to his execution on 1 October 1957.

[4] In 2020, with the Covid-19 crisis, its annual traffic fell to 2,313,492 passengers, relegating it to 99th place,[5] before gradually rising in 2021 with 2,994,510 entries recorded, which demoted it to 108th position of stations in the network.

It separates the semi-circle into two parts, inside which are inscribed the names of the Metro officials who disappeared during the First World War.

The word Liberation was added at the bottom right after the Second World War, to mark the participation of network agents in the French Resistance.

These platforms are among the few to still present the Andreu-Motte style in its entirety, if we exclude the tunnel exits (whose treatment with flat coloured tiles was not systematic).