The station is located at Place Henri-Dunant at Les Lilas and opened on 13 June 2024.

[3] It was then renamed Serge Gainsbourg, after the eponymous French artist who had composed the song Le Poinçonneur des Lilas (The ticket-puncher of Lilas) in 1958.

[6] On 16 July 2021, the tunnel boring machine, Sofia, arrived at the station after more than 15 months of digging since January 2020, marking the end of excavation works for the extension of line 11.

[8] The station has two entrances equipped with escalators, with the main entrance (with a lift) located at square Henri Dunant and the other entrance located at the intersection of rue de la Liberté and boulevard du Général Leclerc.

[9] The station will have a standard configuration with 2 tracks surrounded by 2 side platforms.