Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Also known as Saint-Germain-des-Pres
Saint-Germain-des-Prés () is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the ' on the west, between the ' and ' on the east, and the ' on the south. Residents of the quarter are known as ''''. It forms part of the Latin Quarter.
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- Neighbourhood
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- Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés 140131 1.jpg
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- Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
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- The four quarters of the 6th arrondissement
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- Île-de-France
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Article
23 sectionsContents
- History
- The Middle Ages
- The Saint-Germain Fair
- The Renaissance
- 17th–18th centuries: theatre and the first cafés
- The Treaty of Paris
- The French Revolution
- The 19th century
- The École des Beaux-Arts
- Haussmann
- Oscar Wilde
- The 20th century: non-conformism
- Jazz
- Existentialism
- Abduction
- Transportation
- Literature
- Economy
- See also
- References
- Notes and citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Saint-Germain-des-Prés () is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the ' on the west, between the ' and ' on the east, and the ' on the south. Residents of the quarter are known as '. It forms part of the Latin Quarter.
The areas cafés include , Café de Flore, le Procope, and the Brasserie Lipp, as well as many bookstores and publishing houses. In the 1940s and 1950s, along with the rest of the Latin Quarter, it was the centre of the existentialist movement (associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir). It is also home to the , Sciences Po, the Saints-Pères biomedical university center of the University of Paris, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and the Musée national Eugène Delacroix, in the former apartment and studio of painter Eugène Delacroix.