Rue Bonaparte and Rue Visconti
L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts on Rue Bonaparte is France's most acclaimed art school. It was founded in 1811 by Napoleon who lived on the street when young. On rue Visconti once lived Racine, and Balzac had his print shop at #17. Parallel to rue Visconti at #5 rue des Beaux-Arts, Edouard Manet was born in 1835. At #13 rue des Beaux-Arts is "L'Hotel", the garret hotel of Oscar Wilde fame and where he died, now luxuriously refurbished with 'themed rooms'. It is worth a visit if you are in the area.

Rue Jacob
On rue Jacob is the house and studio, now museum, where Delacroix lived and where he was frequently visited by George Sand and Frederic Chopin. Richard Wagner also lived on Rue Jacob, as did Thomas Jefferson when in Paris. At #7 Racine lived when young; Richard Wagner resided at #14 from 1841 to 1842; Ingres once lived at # 27 and Hemingway occupied a tiny upstairs room at #44. Natalie Barney's former residence is landmarked but not open to the public. In the garden you can see a small Doric temple bearing the inscription A l'Amitie, "to friendship." Off Rue Jacob is one of the most charming squares in Paris, Place de Furstenberg.

Rue de Buci
Rue de Buci is a pretty little marketplace surrounded by cafes and restaurants and leads into rue de Seine which is filled with galleries all the way to the river. On rue Mazarine was the theatre where Moliere made his first appearance as an actor and opened a theatre, the Comedie-Francaise. The oldest cafe in Paris, founded in 1686, Cafe Procope is in the same street.

Odeon
The area around Odeon is famous for its art cinemas and restaurants and is a favorite meeting ground for students attending the Sorbonne, giving it a vibrant atmosphere.

Cour du Commerce-St-Andre
A partially covered quaint passage, it was built in 1776. The workshop where the first guillotine was built stood in this passage. It became a hotbed of revolutionary activity where Marat printed his revolutionary pamphlets. Danton and Desmoulin lived at #20, which was demolished during the building of blvd. St Germain by Haussmann in the mid-19th century. Danton's home has been commemorated by a statue of him at the Carrefour de 1'Odeon next to the Metro. On the nearby Rue de l'Ecole de Medecine Marat was stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday.

Rue de l'Odeon
Was the original home of Sylvia Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company She is particularly associated with Hemingway and the publication of James Joyce's 'Ulysses', but she encouraged and helped Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Thornton Wilder and F. Scott Fitzgerald. At the top of the hill is the Theatre de l'Odeon, designed in 1782 to hold nearly 2,000 people, the largest in Paris at the time.

Rue Monsieur-le-Prince
Every French king's brother was traditionally called Monsieur-le-Prince. This street was popular with resident Americans as James McNeill Whistler, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell

The oldest Abbey in Paris dating from 543 AD, and the heart of the sixth. This church has always been an important religious center, and over the years acquired immense property. The church got its name from the peasants who would come here on pilgrimage in the 8th century. Saint-Germain-des-Pres meaning Saint Germain of the Fields. Around the year 1000 a new church in the Romanesque style was built with three bell towers, two were destroyed but the third, the gate-tower, is still in place.

On the corner of the square in front of the church is the cafe 'Les Deux Magots' and nearby is the 'Cafe Flore', both of which are literary and artistic shrines associated with many writers and artists such as Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso and Apollinaire. Across the road is Brasserie Lipp favored by politicians, writers and celebrities.

The streets south of Blvd. St-Germain to the Seine are picturesque and have a real feel of 18th and 19th century Paris.

Work on the church of St-Suplice, at one time Paris's largest, began in 1646, but is still ongoing. It has one of the world's largest organs, comprising 6,700 pipes. The Chapelle des Anges (Chapel of the Angel) has two frescoes by Delacroix which were painted in Delacroix's final years and were a high point in his career. Outside the Church is a large square with the 1844 fountain by Visconti at its center. It is the location of the annual Foire de Saint-German held at the beginning of June and which lasts for a month. This fair has been an annual tradition for centuries.

• Musee de la Monnaie - Coins and historical documents
• Musee Delacroix - Home and studio of Delacroix
• Musee d' Histoire de la Medecine - Medical History
• Musee de la Mineralogie - Mineral museum
• Musee du Luxembourg - Art exhibitions
• Musee Zadkine - Home and studio of the Russian sculptor
• Musee Hebert - Works of painter Ernest Hebert 1817-1908
• Museum of Italian landscapes

Along the Seine from rue Bonarparte to rue du Bac is a pleasant place for strolling with its lovely view of the Louvre andthe high-class antique stores in the surrounding streets, called the 'Carre de Rive Gauche'. In mid-June there is a festival and street party when all the shops have an "Open House". The quai here is named in honor of Voltaire who died in a house on this spot in 1778. There is a cafE on the actual site and it is a great place for a short break from sight-seeing

Jardin du Luxembourg is the most loved park in Paris. It is large and has fountains, flowers, statues, tennis courts, concerts in the summer and on Sunday, Tai Chi. Within the park is located the Palais du Luxembourg, home to the French Senate. Next to the senate is the Musee du Luxembourg, which often has art exhibitions. Nearby on rue de Fleurus lived Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Tokas who opened their home to many famous expatriates, writers and artists, including Hemingway and Picasso.

Built in 1803, the first iron bridge in Paris. It was built for pedestrian use and has benches along its length. The bridge stretches from the Institut de France to the Louvre, and has one of the loveliest views in Paris.

Les Deux Magots
The café started life in 1813 as a drapery, selling silk and other luxury items. It took its name Les Deux Magots' from a successful play of that time: The Two Magots of China.

By 1884 Les Deux Magots had transformed itself into a wine merchant's on the corner of St Germain des Pres just as the area was transforming itself into a artistic quarter with the presence of the publishers Grasset and Gallimard and the theatre Le Vieux Colombier.

Legendary figures of the art world frequented Les Deux Margots: Verlaine, Oscar Wilde, Guillaume Appolinaire and in the tense pre-war atmosphere, Saint Germain des Pres became the intellectual centre of Paris : Gide and Malraux regularly ended up in discussions on the café terrace. Paul Eluard introduced Dora Maar to Picasso here.

Every morning, Jean Paul Sartre with Simone de Beauvoir would take his seat at Les Deux Magots and write for hours, often without pause, but sometimes stopping to talk to Ernest Hemingway, another regular customer.

Café Flore and Brasserie Lipp competed with each other for the favor of these artists and intellectuals. They became like community centers and over the years each group of friends would stake out their territory and discuss the ideas of the day.