You walk down from the Odéon to the Seine: the street where Marat was murdered, the passage where the guillotine took shape, Voltaire's café, the studio where Picasso painted Guernica, a fountain built to hide a wall, the booksellers of the quays, an archer operated on while still alive, and a bookshop where people sleep among the shelves.
You start in front of the faculty that stands on the site of Marat's house and beside the refectory where the Cordeliers Club met. You pass the statue of Danton and step into the Cour du Commerce, where a harpsichord maker and a doctor worked on the machine that would take the doctor's name. Then comes the Procope and Voltaire's table, the street where Picasso painted Guernica in five weeks in 1937, and the ramshackle Beat Hotel, where some newspapers cut up by accident changed the way William Burroughs wrote. Next, the Saint-Michel fountain, built to cover up a wall, with two small plaques beside it for the fighting of the Liberation in 1944; the bouquinistes, who have outlasted everything, even an Olympic Games; the street of the roasting shops; and the condemned archer who was opened up alive and walked away pardoned. You finish opposite Notre-Dame, beside what's said to be the oldest tree in Paris and a bookshop with beds that borrowed a famous name.
An outline of the walk. The full stories are in the app.
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Walking directions are based on mapped pedestrian routes. Check local access and signs; the route is not an accessibility guarantee. Times are approximate.
Paris works best a neighbourhood at a time. Combine a walk, a pause and another look: the distances on the map can be deceptive.
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You begin in front of the Roman baths that an abbot let to a barrel maker.
You start in front of the Panthéon, which began as Louis XV's promise to Saint Genevieve and changed use six times.
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