From the cafés of Saint-Germain to the Odéon theatre: the stove that drew Sartre and Beauvoir, the church born of a tunic from Zaragoza, a philosopher who never made it to the Panthéon, two daughters who got their fathers out of the Abbaye prison alive, the revolutionary creed of Saint-Sulpice, a fortune-teller watched by the police, the palace that became a prison and the bookseller who said no to a German officer.
You start on the terraces of the Flore and Les Deux Magots and cross to the oldest church in Paris, which, tradition has it, was founded to keep a tunic brought from Zaragoza; inside lies Descartes, whom the Revolution wanted to move to the Panthéon. By the boulevard, where the Abbaye prison once stood, you remember the September Massacres of 1792 with restraint: two daughters who saved their fathers that night, and a legend that was never proved. You walk down to Saint-Sulpice, where the façade still prays to the Supreme Being and where a novel invented a Rose Line. Along the rue de Tournon, the house of a fortune-teller who boasted of famous clients, and at the end of the street the palace Marie de' Medici wanted to be like the one in Florence, which the Terror filled with prisoners. You finish at the Odéon, which saw The Marriage of Figaro open against the King's wishes and students occupy it in 1968, and in the street where Sylvia Beach published Ulysses.
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Paris works best a neighbourhood at a time. Combine a walk, a pause and another look: the distances on the map can be deceptive.
You start at the tip of the island, where one March evening in 1314 the last master of the Templars was burnt at the stake, and you follow his day backwards to the square in front of Notre-Dame, where his sentence was read that morning.
You start by looking towards the Tuileries, the palace Catherine de' Medici began beside some tile works, and which ended in flames in 1871.
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.
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