Universite Hotel in Saint Germain Quarter

This one-time suburb [faubourg] of Paris is located on the Left Bank, across the Seine from the Tuileries.  It runs along the southern shore of the Seine, in the 7th and 6th arrondissements, and consists of the area east of boulevard St-Michel as far as to include the Musée d’Orsay.  It stretches some 4 to 5 blocks to the south, including boulevard St-Germain and several blocks to its south. It is bordered on the north by the Seine, to the east by the Invalides & Tour Eiffel Quarter, to the south by the Luxembourg Quarter and to the west by the Latin Quarter.  The intellectual center of gravity, of this quartier of bistros, bookshops, coffee-houses, galleries, nightclubs and publishing houses, is at the intersection of rue Bonaparte and boulevard St-Germain.  This is the location of the Café Les Deux Magots [frequented by the writers of the "Lost Generation" of the 20s and 30s, and by the post World War II Existentialists], the Café de Flore and the Brasserie Lipp. St-Germain’s more interesting structures are the Cour du Commerce St-André, the Cour de Rohan, the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, the Institut de France, the Palais Abbatial, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Théâtre National de l’Odéon and the St-Germain-des-Prés church.  Some of its more interesting streets are boulevard St-Germain, the rue du Dragon and the rue de l’Odéon.  Its museums include the Musée Eugène Delacroix, the Musée Nationale de la Légion d’Honneur, the Musée de la Monnaie and the Musée d’Orsay. For more information...