The station Faidherbe - Chaligny was opened in 1931. She paid tribute to General Louis Faidherbe (1818-1889) who was governor of Senegal from 1854 to 1861 and from 1863 to 1865. Force Commander of the North 1870-71, he bravely resisted the Prussians. It also honors the family Chaligny gave us illustrious founders Lorraine. Among them, Antoine Chaligny (d. 1666) is the author of the equestrian statue of Duke Charles III of Lorraine in Nancy. But it lies above all, instead of Bélcère, which is between the rue Faidherbe, on the side of the 11th arrondissement and the streets of Reuilly and Chaligny side of 12th.