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Louis Pasteur in 1888–9. He 0 Fondation Cartier w Observatoire
discovered the process of de Paris
milk pasteurization, as well as 261 Blvd Raspail 75014. Map 16 E3.
vaccines against rabies and Tel 01 42 18 56 50. q Raspail. Open 77 Ave Denfert-Rochereau 75014.
anthrax. The centre houses 11am–8pm Tue–Sun (to 10pm Tue). Map 16 E3. Tel 01 40 51 22 21 (2–4pm
a museum that includes a Closed 1 Jan, 25 Dec. & 7 ^ 8 Mon–Fri). q Denfert-Rochereau.
∑ fondation.cartier.com
reconstruction of Pasteur’s Closed to the public for revovations;
apartment and laboratory. This foundation for contem- call for latest details. & 8 visite.
It was designed by his grand- porary art is housed in a paris@obspm.fr ∑ obspm.fr
children (also scientists) and is building designed by architect
faithful to the original down to Jean Nouvel. He has created an In 1667 Louis XIV was
the last detail. Pasteur’s tomb is air of transparency and light, as persuaded by his scientists
in a basement crypt built in the well as incorporating a cedar and astronomers that France
style of a small Byzantine of Lebanon planted in 1823 needed a royal obser vatory.
chapel. The tomb of Dr Emile by François-René de Chateau- Building began on 21 June, the
Roux, who discovered the briand. The structure comple- day of summer solstice, and
treatment for diphtheria, is in ments the nature of the took five years to complete.
the garden. The institute has exhibitions of progressive art, One of the leading astronomy
laboratories for pure and which showcase personal, centres in the world, research
applied research, lecture group or thematic displays, undertaken here included the
theatres, a reference section, often including works by calculation of the exact
and a hospital established to young unknowns. dimensions of the solar system
apply Pasteur’s theories. There in 1672, calculations of the
is also a library – the institute’s q Catacombes de dimensions of longitude, the
original building from 1888 – mapping of the moon in 1679
where research into AIDS is Paris and the discovery of the planet
carried out, led by pioneering 1 Ave du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy Neptune in 1846.
Professor Luc Montagnier, who 75014. Map 16 E4. Tel 01 43 22 47 63.
discovered the HIV virus in 1983. q Denfert-Rochereau. Open 10am–
8:30pm Tue–Sun, booking strongly
9 Notre-Dame advised. Closed public hols. & 8
∑ catacombes.paris.fr
du Travail
In 1786 a monumental project
36 Rue Guilleminot 75014. Map 15 B3. began here: the removal of the
Tel 01 44 10 72 92. q Pernety. millions of skulls and bones
Open 7.30am–7.45pm Mon–Fri, from the unsanitary city
9am–7:30pm Sat, 8:30am–7:30pm Sun.
5 9am, 12:15pm, 7pm Mon–Fri (only cemetery in Les Halles to the
at 7pm on Wed during school hols); quarries at the base of the three
6:30pm Sat; 9am (in Portuguese), “mountains”: Montparnasse,
10:45am, 6pm Sun (in Latin). Montrouge and Montsouris. The façade of the Observatoire
∑ notredamedutravail.net During World War II, the
French Resistance set up its
This church dates from 1901 headquarters here. Above the e La Closerie des
and is made of an unusual mix door outside are the words “Stop! Lilas
of materials: stone, rubble and This is the empire of death.”
bricks over a riveted steel and 171 Blvd du Montparnasse 75014.
iron framework. It was the Map 16 E2. Tel 01 40 51 34 50.
q Vavin. W Port Royal. Open Piano
creation of Father Soulange-
Boudin, a priest who organized bar: 11–1:30am, restaurant: noon–
2:30pm & 7–11pm, brasserie: noon–
cooperatives and sought to 12:30am. ∑ closeriedeslilas.fr
reconcile labour and capitalism.
Local parishioners raised the Lenin, Trotsky, Hemingway and
money for its construction, but Scott Fitzgerald all frequented
lack of funds meant that many the Montparnasse bars, but the
features, such as the bell towers, Closerie was their favourite.
were never built. On the façade Much of Hemingway’s novel
hangs the Sebastopol Bell, a The Sun Also Rises takes place
trophy from the Crimean War here– he wrote it on the terrace
given to the people of the in just six weeks. Today the
Plaisance district by Napoleon III. terrace is ringed with trees and
The Art Nouveau interior has the area is more elegant than
been completely restored and Skulls and bones stored in the Catacombes in the 1920s, but much of the
features paintings of saints. de Paris original decor remains.

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