Saint-Germain-des-Pres
The area is bound the Seine, the Luxembourg gardens, the boulevard Saint-Michel and rue des Saint-Peres, Paris. Its name comes from the church, the first stones of which date back to 577. From the 1920s, the frenzied literary and art cliques gravitated towards the cafes of Saint-Germain. During the Liberation, existentialism took off, led by Camus and Sartr, while basement jazz shook the foundations with Sidney Bechet on the clarinet anf the writer Boris Vian on the trumpet. This area is legendary but Saint-Germain remains an oasis of ancient streets full of wonderful places for art, books and the latest must-have little items.
CULT CAFES
The Cafe de Flore, the Deux-Magots and the Brasserie Lipp make up the golden triangle of the boulevard and place Saint-Germain and were once the “headquarters” of Sartre and Beauvoir, Eluard and Breton, Fargue and faulkner, as well as an antechamber for politics and a second “office” for publishers. What’s more, all three are listed as hostorical monuments.
