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Street-by-Street: Jardin des Plantes Quarter

Two physicians to Louis XIII, Jean Hérouard Metro
and Guy de la Brosse, obtained permission to Cardinal
establish the royal medicinal herb garden in Lemoine
the sparsely populated St-Victor suburb in
1626. The herb garden and gardens of various
religious houses gave the region a rural
character. In the 19th century, the population A R D I N A L L E M O I N E R RUE DES BOULANGERS
and thus the area expanded and it became U E
more built up, until it gradually assumed the 5 Place de la Contrescarpe

This village-like square
character it has today: a well-to-do residential filled with restaurants

patchwork of 19th- and early 20th-century and cafés buzzes with U C

buildings interspersed with much older and student life after dusk. D

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some more recent buildings. E O
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6. Rue Mouffetard
Locals flock to this market street, one of
the oldest in the city, where vendors’ R U E O R T O L A N R
displays spill onto the cobblestones in R U
a colourful spread of fresh produce, U E

pastries, wine and other fare. E O G A

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Pot de Fer fountain is one of 14 that Marie U C E U
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de Médici had built on the Left Bank in Metro Place E S
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1624 as a source of water for her palace in Monge T A O
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the Jardin du Luxembourg. The fountain R N
was rebuilt in 1671. G
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Passage des Postes
is an ancient alley R U E D E L’ E P E E D E B O I S
which was opened in
RUE DES PATRIARCHES R U E D E M I R B E L
1830. Its entrance is in
the Rue Mouffetard.

7 St-Médard RUE DE L’ARBALETE
This church was started in
the mid-15th century and
completed by 1655. In CANDOL
1784, the choir was made RUE DE LE
Classical in style, and the
nave’s 16th-century
windows were replaced
with contemporary
stained glass.
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