Serge Gainsbourg station

Serge Gainsbourg station is a station on Line 11 of the Paris Métro. The station is located at Place Henri-Dunant at Les Lilas and opened on 13 June 2024.

Name
The station was initially given the provisional name of Liberté. 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. There have been objections to naming it after Gainsbourg, citing "misogyny".

Construction
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. The construction of the main entrance was completed by the end of January 2022 while the other entrance was completed in July 2022. Track laying also began in February 2022. The station was designed by architects Richez Associés, who also designed 3 other stations on the extension.

Access
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.

Platforms
The station will have a standard configuration with 2 tracks surrounded by 2 side platforms.

Other connections
The station is also served by lines 105 and 515 (TillBus) of the RATP bus network, and at night, by line N12 of the Noctilien bus network.