Saint Germain Boulevard is the main street of the left-bank center of Paris. It houses houses built during the great reconstruction of the French capital in the second half of the 19th century. It is the seat of many famous cafes and restaurants, and the whole area is considered a Mecca for intellectuals, journalists and artists.
The boulevard was marked out on the narrow streets of the left bank of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. The prison in the former Saint Germain monastery was dismantled. Small, tight tenements replaced neoclassical and eclectic buildings with high, decorated facades.
The street took its name from the Abbey of Saint Germain, from which only the church has survived to our times. Parisian intellectual elite have been meeting in cafes and restaurants located on the boulevard for over 100 years. In many of them they liked hanging out Simone Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre.
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