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Latin Quarter
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The Latin Quarter of Paris (French: Quartier latin, IPA: [kaʁtje latɛ̃]) is a district in Paris on the left bank of the Seine, around the Sorbonne. Located in the city's 5th and the 6th arrondissements, it is one of the oldest districts of Paris, occupying the site of the Gallo-Roman town of Lutetia,[1] and is known for its concentration of universities.

The area gets its name from the Latin language, which was widely spoken in and around the University during the Middle Ages, after the twelfth century philosopher Pierre Abélard and his students took up residence there.[2] The quarter has been the academic heart of Paris for more than eight centuries: the University of Paris was formally recognized there in 1200, the Sorbonne college was founded around 1257, and the first printing press in France was installed within its walls in 1470. During the French Revolution the church of Sainte-Geneviève, crowning the hill, became the Panthéon, the national mausoleum of France. In the twentieth century the district was the epicentre of the student uprising of May 68, in whose aftermath the University of Paris was divided into autonomous universities.

Although there has been some exodus, new schools have appeared, and the Latin Quarter continues to be the heart of the universities and Grandes écoles that succeeded the University of Paris, including the Sorbonne University, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris Cité University, PSL University, Panthéon-Assas University, and Sciences Po.

Origin of the name

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Paris was traditionally divided into three zones: the Cité, the Ville, and the University, corresponding respectively to the Île de la Cité, the right bank, and the left bank of the Seine.[3]

In the seventeenth century, authors began to playfully refer to the University as the "Latin country" (pays latin), owing to the intensive use of Latin in teaching at the time; the term already existed in history books to designate Latium.[4] The coinage is attributed to the writer Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654),[3][5] who used the term, for example, in his Socrate Chrétien, in which a pedantic and vain "man of the Latin country" appears:[6]

This man spoke only of the purity of diction and the nobility of style. He recognized no true Rome but that of the old republic, and admitted as legitimate Romans only Terence, Cicero and two or three others. All the rest seemed barbarous to him, and in his opinion barbarism had begun in the very first years of the empire of the first Caesars. Seneca was one of his great aversions, the Latin of Pliny made him sick at heart, and that of Tacitus gave him a migraine.

The dictionaries of Furetière (1690) and Littré (1872) both attest the term pays latin under the entry "latin". The name quartier latin ("Latin quarter") appeared in place of pays latin at the end of the eighteenth century,[7] and is also accepted by the Littré.[8]

History

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Antiquity

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The heart of the district, the Sorbonne quarter and the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, stands on the site of the Gallo-Roman town of Lutetia, which spread around a forum located beneath the present-day Rue Soufflot. The district is crossed by the cardines of Paris, north-south axes of Gallo-Roman origin corresponding to the modern Rue Saint-Jacques and Boulevard Saint-Michel; the perpendicular east-west decumani correspond notably to the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue des Écoles.[9] Alongside the forum, the identified public buildings of the left-bank town include a theatre, three bath complexes and an amphitheatre.[10] The best preserved of the baths, built around AD 200 and celebrated for their still-standing vaults, survive as the Thermes de Cluny at the junction of the Boulevards Saint-Germain and Saint-Michel;[10][1] the amphitheatre, the Arènes de Lutèce, a combined arena and theatre of a type particular to Roman Gaul, measured some 130 by 100 metres and was the largest of its kind.[11]

Settlement on the hill contracted after the invasions of the third century, when the population withdrew to the fortified Île de la Cité and a rampart of quarried stone and recut blocks was thrown up around the island, although the discovery of a Christian cemetery suggests that the left bank was never wholly abandoned.[10] The amphitheatre was buried and its site was eventually forgotten, surviving only in the local place name clos des Arènes; its remains were brought to light in 1869 during the cutting of the Rue Monge, and after a preservation campaign supported by Victor Hugo and Victor Duruy excavation resumed in 1883, with the monument finally cleared and restored between 1915 and 1918.[11]

Medieval university quarter

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In the early twelfth century the philosopher Pierre Abélard and his students took up residence on the left bank, drawing scholars away from the cathedral schools of the Île de la Cité to the slopes of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève.[2] Teaching on the hill, on the lands of the abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, placed masters beyond the jurisdiction of the chancellor of Notre-Dame, and independent schools multiplied on the left bank, where masters and students spoke Latin among themselves.[12] The schools coalesced into the University of Paris, which received formal royal recognition from Philip II Augustus in 1200, a privilege that removed masters and students from ordinary justice;[12] papal statutes regulating the university followed in 1215.[13][14] The king's recognition of the university confirmed the medieval division of Paris into three parts: the Cité on the island, the mercantile Ville on the right bank, and the Université on the left bank.[13] During the same period the quarter was enclosed within the newly enlarged city wall of Philip Augustus, portions of which still survive in the district.[13] Numerous residential colleges for students were founded on the hill, including the college established by Robert de Sorbon around 1257 that became the Sorbonne.[13]

Early modern period

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The first printing press in France was installed within the Sorbonne itself in 1470, when the theologians Johann Heynlin and Guillaume Fichet brought the printers Ulrich Gering, Michael Friburger and Martin Crantz from Basel; their first production, the Epistolae of Gasparinus de Bergamo, was the first book printed in France.[15] The printers later moved their workshop to the Rue Saint-Jacques, beginning the concentration of printers, publishers and booksellers that has characterized the quarter ever since.[15] The quarter was also a birthplace of Parisian café culture: the Café Procope, opened by the Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli in 1686 on the present Rue de l'Ancienne-Comédie, is regarded as the oldest café in Paris, and in the eighteenth century it became a salon of the Enlightenment where Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and d'Alembert debated and the circle of the Encyclopédistes gathered; figures of the Revolution including Marat, Robespierre and Danton later crossed paths there.[16]

In the seventeenth century, under Cardinal Richelieu, the medieval Sorbonne was entirely rebuilt to the designs of the architect Jacques Lemercier; of Lemercier's ensemble only the chapel, in which Richelieu is buried, survived the reconstruction of the university at the end of the nineteenth century.[17][18] Latin remained the language of instruction, spoken by students and teachers in and out of class, until the French Revolution.[1]

Revolutionary era

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The Revolution transformed the institutions of the quarter. The church of Sainte-Geneviève, raised at the summit of the hill to the neoclassical designs of Jacques-Germain Soufflot in fulfilment of a vow of Louis XV and completed only in 1790, was converted by the Constituent Assembly on the death of Mirabeau in 1791 into a national necropolis for the great men of France, the Panthéon; Voltaire entered it in 1791 and Rousseau in 1794.[19][20] After oscillating between church and secular temple with successive changes of regime through the nineteenth century, the building serves today as the national mausoleum.[19]

The university did not survive the Revolution. In 1791 students were denied access to the Sorbonne's buildings, and under the Le Chapelier Law banning corporations the Société de Sorbonne was disbanded, along with the universities of Paris and the provinces.[21] New institutions soon filled the void: the École de santé, forerunner of the faculty of medicine, was created by the Convention in 1794 and installed in the buildings of the former Royal Academy of Surgery on the Rue de l'École-de-Médecine,[22] and in 1804 Napoleon installed the École polytechnique, to which he gave a military statute, in the former colleges of Navarre, Tournai and Boncourt on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève.[23] From 1806 Napoleon reorganized French higher education as the Université impériale, creating five faculties in Paris,[24] and the quarter gradually resumed its academic role.

19th century

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Until 1848, the Latin Quarter, also called the pays latin, was made up of parts of four of the old quarters of Paris: the quarter of the Place Maubert, the quarter of Saint-Benoît (also called Saint-Jacques), the quarter of Saint-André-des-Arts, and the quarter of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.[25]

The quarter was profoundly transformed by Haussmann's renovation of Paris under the Second French Empire. The Boulevard Saint-Michel, initially named Boulevard de Sébastopol-rive-gauche, was cut through the medieval street fabric parallel to the Rue Saint-Jacques from 1855, absorbing part of the ancient Rue de la Harpe, and received its present name in 1867; the Boulevard Saint-Germain was driven through the quarter in the same period, and the Place Saint-Michel with its monumental fountain by Gabriel Davioud was laid out at the boulevard's northern end.[26] The demolitions swept away much of the medieval quarter, relegating the Rue Saint-Jacques, the Roman-era main axis, to a secondary street.[26]

The century also transformed the quarter's institutions. The Sainte-Geneviève Library, built by Henri Labrouste between 1843 and 1850 beside the Panthéon, is admired for the restraint of its decoration and for its pioneering use of exposed iron columns and arches.[27] At the end of the century the cramped seventeenth-century buildings of the Sorbonne were replaced: at the instigation of the education minister Jules Ferry, the reconstruction was entrusted to the architect Henri-Paul Nénot, the first stone was laid in 1885, and the first part of the new building, the Academic Palace, was inaugurated in 1889 for the centenary of the French Revolution; the works, which retained only Lemercier's chapel, were completed in 1901.[24] The eclectic "new Sorbonne", with its neo-Renaissance facades, antique peristyles and classical main courtyard, became a symbol of the educational ambitions of the Third Republic.[28][24]

20th century to present

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Student numbers at the Sorbonne doubled between 1921 and 1926 and tripled during the 1930s, reaching some 14,500 on the eve of the Second World War, by which time women made up two-fifths of the student body.[18] Growth resumed sharply after the war: by 1965 enrolment had reached 61,400, roughly ten times the number the Nénot buildings had been designed for, and new university buildings rose in the district in the 1950s and 1960s, notably the Jussieu Campus, which became home to the Faculty of Sciences.[18]

In the 1960s, and particularly during the events of May 68, the district was one of the centres of various protest movements. The movement of 1968 had begun at the new campus of Nanterre, west of Paris, before reaching the Latin Quarter.[18] After police cleared protesting students from the Sorbonne on 3 May 1968, clashes spread through the surrounding streets, and on the night of 10-11 May, remembered as the Night of the Barricades, demonstrators tore up cobblestones and erected barricades across the streets of the quarter before being violently dispersed by riot police; the Sorbonne itself was subsequently occupied by students and was not evacuated for good until mid-June.[18][29] In the aftermath, the higher-education law promoted by Edgar Faure and passed in November 1968 reorganized French universities, and the University of Paris was divided into nine, later thirteen, autonomous institutions.[18]

Since the late twentieth century the quarter has become one of the principal tourist districts of Paris, particularly the network of narrow streets between the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Seine.[1] Rising rents and the growth of e-commerce have thinned the quarter's traditional specialized bookshops, prompting local campaigns to preserve them.[30]

Geography

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The Latin Quarter is a customary district rather than an administrative unit, and its limits have never been formally fixed. Its core lies in the 5th arrondissement, around the Sorbonne and the slopes of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, and it extends westward into the 6th arrondissement.[1] Until the redrawing of the city's administrative map in the mid-nineteenth century, it took in parts of four of the old quarters of Paris.[25] In common usage the quarter is bounded roughly by the Seine to the north, the Jardin des plantes to the east, the Jardin du Luxembourg to the south and the neighbourhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés to the west.[31]

The quarter's principal north-south axis is the Boulevard Saint-Michel, doubled to the east by the older Rue Saint-Jacques, which follows the line of the Roman cardo maximus; the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue des Écoles cross it from east to west along the line of the Roman decumani.[9] The busiest quarter for visitors is the network of narrow streets between the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Seine.[1]

Academic institutions

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It remains a district heavily frequented by students and professors, owing to the presence of numerous institutions of higher education and research.

Universities, libraries, and other academic institutions in the Latin Quarter of Paris include:

Several institutions have their seat in the historic Sorbonne building, including the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Sorbonne University, and Sorbonne Nouvelle University. The Ministry of Higher Education and Research has its seat on the Rue Descartes, in the Pavillon Boncourt and the surrounding buildings of the former École polytechnique on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève.[32][33]

The Latin Quarter is also home to the largest university libraries in Paris, such as the Sainte-Geneviève Library, the Sorbonne Library, the Sainte-Barbe Library, the Assas Law Library and the Cujas Law Library.

University administrative buildings are also located in the district, such as the presidency of Sorbonne University in the Cordeliers Convent or the headquarters of Paris Cité University in the former École de Médecine. The Faculty of Medicine of Paris had its seat on the Rue de l'École-de-Médecine from 1794, when the revolutionary École de santé was installed in the buildings of the former Royal Academy of Surgery, until the breakup of the University of Paris in 1970;[18][22] its premises are now occupied by the faculty of health of Paris Cité University and by the Cordeliers campus of the faculty of medicine of Sorbonne University. Grandes écoles such as the École polytechnique have relocated in recent times to more spacious settings, notably in Paris-Saclay: the École polytechnique kept its premises on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève until its transfer to Palaiseau in 1976,[23] ESSEC remained on the Rue d'Assas until its move to Cergy-Pontoise in 1973,[34] and the École Nationale des Chartes left the Sorbonne for the Rue de Richelieu in 2014.[35]

Other academic institutions in the Latin Quarter include:

Research centres located in the quarter, alongside the CNRS and other public and private institutions, include the Institut Curie, the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Henri Poincaré, the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, the Institut océanographique, the Institut de géographie, the Institut de biologie physico-chimique, the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris, the Société mathématique de France and the Société géologique de France.

Architecture

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Buildings from every period of the city's history survive in the quarter. The principal Roman remains are the Arènes de Lutèce and the vaulted frigidarium of the Thermes de Cluny;[1][10] the baths adjoin a fifteenth-century mansion built over part of the complex, the Hôtel de Cluny, which now houses the national museum of the Middle Ages.[36] Portions of the medieval city wall of Philip Augustus, within which the university quarter grew up, still survive in the district.[13] Among the quarter's medieval churches, Saint-Séverin, rebuilt in the Flamboyant Gothic style with work culminating in 1489–94, and Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre (1165–1220), which belongs to the transitional period between the Romanesque and the Gothic, are notable;[37] Saint-Séverin served as the church of the students of the medieval university.[38] The Panthéon, Soufflot's neoclassical church of Sainte-Geneviève converted into the national mausoleum, dominates the summit of the hill.[19]

The Sorbonne Chapel is the only surviving element of Lemercier's seventeenth-century college, preserved at the heart of Nénot's ensemble of 1885–1901, whose grand vestibule, staircase and great amphitheatre are protected as historical monuments.[28] Labrouste's Sainte-Geneviève Library of 1843–1850 is an early landmark in the visible use of structural iron,[27] while the Haussmann era contributed the quarter's great boulevards and the monumental Fontaine Saint-Michel by Gabriel Davioud.[26]

Places of interest

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Roman remains

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Monuments

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Places of worship

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Community life

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View of Rue de la Huchette (October 2003)

Student life

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The Latin Quarter has been synonymous with Parisian student life for centuries, and the Boulevard Saint-Michel, known colloquially as the "Boul'Mich", remains its main artery and meeting point for students of the Sorbonne and the surrounding schools.[39] For generations, the student year traditionally began with queues at the quarter's second-hand bookshops for course textbooks, most famously at the Gibert shops, a family firm that started out as a bouquiniste stall on the banks of the Seine in the 1880s before expanding along the Boulevard Saint-Michel.[39][40]

The quarter's student character has weakened in recent decades. The provision of free school textbooks from the early 2000s, the relocation of university faculties to campuses outside the district, competition from online booksellers, and the Covid-19 pandemic all undermined the traditional book trade, while rising property values pushed student housing outward; by 2021 fewer than 10,000 students were estimated to still live in the quarter.[39][40] The closure in March 2021 of the Gibert Jeune flagship, whose yellow awnings on the Place Saint-Michel had been a local landmark for over a century, was widely seen as symbolic of these changes, and the city of Paris responded with a programme offering below-market rents to keep independent bookshops in the district.[40] Long-standing survivors include the six-floor Gibert Joseph shop near the Sorbonne and the English-language bookshop Shakespeare and Company, opened by George Whitman at 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, opposite Notre-Dame, in 1951, and renamed in 1964 in homage to Sylvia Beach's interwar bookshop of the same name.[40][41][42]

Culture and entertainment

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The network of narrow, animated streets between the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Seine, around the Rue de la Huchette and the church of Saint-Séverin, is one of the busiest tourist areas of Paris.[1] The quarter contains numerous public libraries, several art house cinemas, theatres, themed cabarets, many publishing houses, and bookshops specializing in literature, science, history, medicine, politics, philosophy, law and the humanities.[30] Notable cultural venues include the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the Théâtre de la Huchette, the cabaret Paradis Latin, and the jazz club Le Caveau de la Huchette, a cellar club on the Rue de la Huchette where celebrated American and French jazz musicians have performed since the late 1940s.[43]

Transport

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The quarter is served by lines 4 and 10 of the Paris Métro and by lines B and C of the RER: Saint-Michel on Line 4 connects with the RER at Saint-Michel Notre-Dame, Cluny–La Sorbonne on Line 10 serves the heart of the quarter, Odéon its western edge, and the Luxembourg station on RER B its southern edge, giving direct connections to both Paris airports.[31] The Cluny–La Sorbonne station opened as Cluny in 1930 with the extension of Line 10; the transfer corridor linking it with the Saint-Michel RER station is decorated with a 600-square-metre ribbon of Venetian glass and mosaic by the artist Claude Maréchal, commissioned in 1987.[44]

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The Latin Quarter is the setting of Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851), a collection of sketches of impoverished young writers and artists in the quarter, drawn from Murger's own life there, that helped popularize the idea of bohemian life.[45] Giacomo Puccini's tragic opera La Bohème (1896), one of the most frequently performed of all operas, is based on Murger's book and set among the quarter's bohemians in the 1830s.[46]

In the interwar years the quarter was a centre of the Anglophone expatriate literary community. Ernest Hemingway lived at 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine in 1922–1923 and recalled the surrounding streets, the Place de la Contrescarpe and the Rue Mouffetard market street in his memoir A Moveable Feast.[47] George Orwell lodged in a cheap boarding house at 6 Rue du Pot de Fer in 1928–1929 while working as a dishwasher, drawing on the experience for Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), in which the street appears as the fictional Rue du Coq d'Or.[48]

See also

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Further reading

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  • Alexandre Gady, La Montagne Sainte-Geneviève et le Quartier latin : Guide historique et architectural, Paris, Hoëbeke, 1998, 327 p.
  • Berthold Mahn, Le Quartier latin, suite of ten lithographs, Lematte et Boinot, Paris, 1934.
  • Philippe Mellot, La Vie secrète du Quartier latin, Omnibus, 2009.
  • Patrice Dalix, Ode au Quartier Latin, L'Harmattan.
  • André Arnold-Peltier, Vassili Karist, Le Quartier Latin et ses entours / and its surroundings, Éditions PIPPA, collection Itinérances (ISBN 978-2-916506-02-9)
  • André Arnold-Peltier, Vassili Karist, Le jardin du Luxembourg / The Luxembourg gardens, Éditions PIPPA, collection Itinérances (ISBN 2916506004)
  • Sophie Peltier-Le Dinh, Danielle Michel-Chich, André Arnold-Peltier, Le Lycée Henri-IV, entre potaches et moines copistes, Éditions PIPPA, collection Itinérances (ISBN 978-2-916506-16-6)
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