The station was inaugurated on April 26, 1931. She called Jussieu - Halle aux wines, but it still does today that the name of Jussieu, because the small Halle wines, created by Napoleon I, has disappeared and its location is now (since 1957) the campus of Jussieu. Jussieu is the name of a family who took care of botany and natural history. The two platforms were renovated in style "Motte" in 1975, but for the first time with flat tiles in place of traditional tiled edge.