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Saint-Germain des Prés:
Cradle of Existentialism

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Saint-Germain des Prés – this was once the quarter of men of letters and artists, of surrealists and existentialists, the quarter of jazz cellers filled with cigarette smoke and endless philosophical debates. Here the intellectuals of Paris, people like Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir met with artists such as Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian or Juliette Gréco.

The public is now a different one, but the renowned places have remained the same – for example, the Café de Flore in which Sartre sat the whole day and wrote, or the Café Deux Magots where today members of the international jet-set can be seen. The narrow romantic streets are full of memories and are a wonderful place just to stroll.

In the entire quarter there are beautiful and often unusual shops, which offer a wide and fascinating range of goods: first-class bookstores, boutiques selling eccentric or classic fashion, antique dealers, art galleries, graphics and print dealers, and at the crossing Rue de Buci Rue de la Seine, colorful market stalls. Saint-Germain is still one of the most attractive, dynamic and “typically Parisian” quarters of the capital of France.

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