About this route
A short literary stroll through the student quarter — medieval streets, legendary bookshops and the oldest café in Paris.
Stops on this route
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Shakespeare and Company
Legendary English-language bookshop facing Notre-Dame, a haunt of Beat Generation writers.
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Café de Flore
Iconic Saint-Germain café where Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus wrote and debated.
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Le Procope
The oldest restaurant in Paris, open since 1686, where Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin dined.
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Luxembourg Gardens
Elegant 23-hectare formal garden with the Medici Fountain, model sailboats and orchards.
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Sorbonne University
Historic university founded in 1257, the intellectual heart of Paris for eight centuries.
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