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Street-by-Street: St-Germain-des-Prés

After World War II, St-Germain-des-Prés became
synonymous with intellectual life centred on bars and
cafés. Philosophers, writers, actors and musicians
mingled in the cellar nightspots and brasseries, where
existentialist philosophy co-existed with American jazz.
The area is now smarter than in the heyday of Jean-
Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, the haunting
singer Juliette Greco and the New Wave film-makers.
The writers are still around, enjoying the pleasures of 4 Les Deux Magots
sitting in Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore and other The café is famous for the patronage of
haunts. The 17th-century buildings have survived, celebrities such as Ernest Hemingway.
but signs of change are evident in the plethora of
affluent shops dealing in antiques, books and fashion.

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5 Café de Flore
In the 1950s, French intellectuals
wrestled with new philosophical
ideas in the Art Deco interior of
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the café.
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R U E D U F O U R Metro St-Germain-
des-Prés

6 Brasserie Lipp
Colourful ceramics decorate this
famous brasserie once frequented
by politicians.
1.St-Germain-des-Prés 7.Boulevard St-Germain
Descartes and Casimir, king of Poland, Café terraces, boutiques, cinemas,
who became abbot of St-Germain restaurants and bookshops
in 1669, are among the notables characterize the central section
buried here in Paris’s oldest church. of the Left Bank’s main street.

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