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the museum. He also created Paintings in Musée
5 " = murals for a chapel in nearby Eugène Delacroix, the
Musée Eugène St-Sulpice church (p143). In the artist’s former home
Delacroix apartment and studio are a
portrait of George Sand and
 F4–5 ⌂ 6 rue de Fürsten­ some self-portraits. There is city to have gutters and it still
berg 75006 q St­Germain­
des­Prés, Mabillon @ 39, free entry to the museum on has many 18th-century houses.
63, 70, 86, 95, 96 # 9:30am– the first Sunday of the month. Sylvia Beach’s original Shake-
5:30pm Wed–Mon (to 9pm speare & Company bookshop
stood at No 12, patronized by
1st Thu of month) ¢ 1 Jan,
1 May, 25 Dec ∑ musee­ 6 writers such as James Joyce,
delacroix.fr Rue de l’Odéon Ezra Pound and Hemingway.
The leading Romantic painter  G5 ⌂ 75006 q Odéon
5
Delacroix lived here from TOP SHOPPING
1857 until his death in 1863. Opened in 1779 to improve STREETS
His The Way to Calvary and The access to the Odéon Theatre,
Entomb ment of Christ hang in this was the first street in the Rue Lobineau
Home of the St-Germain
covered food market
and shopping centre.
Rue Bonaparte
Full of swanky shops,
including the Pierre
Hermé flagship store.
Rue du Bac
Full of shops selling
pastries and other
tasty confections.
Rue de Sèvres
The location of Le Bon
Marché, the first
department store in
Paris, which opened
in 1852.
Rue de Buci
A former market street
that today houses cafés
Shoppers and strollers and cute shops.
on the elegant and leafy
boulevard St-Germain
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