Events near Sorbonne
- 🚶The Paris of the Alchemists - esoteric tour
Monuments & viewpoints
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont
Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
Saint-Séverin
Chapelle Sainte-Ursule de la Sorbonne
Église des Saints-Archanges
Église Saint-Éphrem-le-Syriaque
Monument to Auguste Comte
Michel de Montaigne
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿etjɛn dy mɔ̃]) is a Catholic church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine of St. Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris. The church also contains the tombs of Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, in full Église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, is a Melkite Greek Catholic parish church in Paris, France, and one of the city's oldest religious buildings. Begun in Romanesque style during the 12th century, most of its architecture is Primary Gothic. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Museums & galleries
The Musée de Cluny (French pronunciation: [myze də klyni]), officially Musée de Cluny-Musée National du Moyen Âge (lit. 'Cluny Museum-National Museum of the Middle Ages'), is a museum of medieval art in Paris. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Restaurants in Sorbonne
- 🍽️Le Petit Prince de Paris
- 🍽️Le Bistro du Périgord
- 🍽️La Petite Périgourdine
- 🍽️Petit Saïgon
- 🍽️Bolan
- 🍽️Maison Cluny
- 🍽️Pizza Roma
Le Balzar- 🍽️La Sirena
- 🍽️La Table de Colette
Bars in Sorbonne
- 🍸Café Gisèle
- 🍸Le Piano Vache
- 🍸Le Bistrot des artistes
- 🍸Aux Émotions
- 🍸Sourire Galande
- 🍸The Bombardier
- 🍸L'Annexe
- 🍸La Bodega Paris V
- 🍸The Oakenshield Tavern
- 🍸Bardakis
Cafés in Sorbonne
- ☕Jozi Brunch Pantheon
- ☕Café Maa
- ☕sidonie
- ☕Chamie
- ☕TRAM café
- ☕Le salon du cinéma du Panthéon
- ☕Snowvan
- ☕Brunch aux olives
- ☕Le Palais
- ☕Noir
Pâtisseries in Sorbonne
- 🧁Christian Constant
- 🧁Maison Forest
- 🧁La Maison d'Isabelle
- 🧁Les Belles Envies
- 🧁Bertrand's
- 🧁Copains Panthéon
- 🧁Pâtisserie Viennoise
- 🧁La Maison Louis
Bookshops
- 📚J. Vrin
- 📚Eric Zinc - livres anciens
- 📚Librairie Eyrolles
- 📚La Tanière Bleue
- 📚Album Comics
- 📚Présence Africaine
Cinemas, theatres & live music
- 🎭EXPAT PUB QUIZ (La Pomme d'Ève)
Markets & delis
- 🧺Marché Maubert
- 🥘Le Comptoir gastronomique européen
Where the street names come from
- rue Basse des Carmes — Opened on the site of the former Carmelite convent.
- rue Boutebrie — Corruption of the name of Erembourg de Brie, who lived here at the end of the 13th century.
- impasse Bouvart — Name of an owner.
- rue Champollion — Jean François Champollion the younger (1790-1832), French Egyptologist who was the first to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphic characters.
- impasse Chartière — Emmeline la Charretière, a property owner, had transferred, in 1254, two houses on the street to the collège des Bons Enfants d'Arras.
- rue Clotaire — Clotaire I, King of France; died in 561; near the former abbey of Sainte-Geneviève.
- rue Clotilde — Clotilde (475-545), wife of Clovis; near the former abbey of Sainte-Geneviève.
- rue Clovis — Clovis I (465-511), King of the Franks; near the former abbey of Sainte-Geneviève.
- rue Cujas — Jacques Cujas (1522-1590), jurist; near the Faculty of Law.
- rue d'Écosse — In the vicinity of the collège des Ecossais, originally founded in the rue des Amandiers.
- rue Dante — Dante Alighieri (1265-1331), the great Italian poet, is said by tradition to have lived in the district.
- rue de Cluny — Runs along the Cluny museum.
- place de l'Abbé Basset — François, Edmond, Stéphane, Marie Basset (Versailles, 1899-Mauthausen, 1943), curate at the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont in 1935, deported and martyred at Mauthausen.
- rue de l'École Polytechnique — Leads to the Ecole polytechnique.
- rue de la Harpe — So called from the 13th century, after a shop sign.
- rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève — This street climbs the rise known as the montagne Sainte-Geneviève, named after the abbey.
- rue de la Parcheminerie — The parchment makers had settled here in former times.
- passage de la Sorbonne — Near the rue de la Sorbonne.
- place de la Sorbonne — Square located in front of the Sorbonne, a former college founded by Robert de Sorbon in the 13th century.
- rue de la Sorbonne — Runs alongside the Sorbonne.
- rue de Lanneau — Pierre Antoine Victor de Lanneau (1758-1830), French Theatine religious educator, founder of the collège de Sainte-Barbe; in the vicinity of that college.
- rue de Latran — Commandery of Saint-Jean de Latran established on this spot as early as the 12th century.
- rue des Anglais — Formerly inhabited by English students.
- rue des Bernardins — Opened on the site of the garden of the Bernardins.
- impasse des Boeufs — Ox stables were probably located here.
- rue des Carmes — The Carmelites settled here in 1318.
- rue des Écoles — Runs through the schools district.
- rue des Fossés Saint-Jacques — The city ditches, on the site of which the street was laid out; near the former porte Saint-Jacques.
- rue des Prêtres Saint-Séverin — Inhabited by the priests of the church of Saint-Séverin.
- rue des Trois Portes — So called from the 13th century onwards, because there were only three houses.
- rue Descartes — René Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher and scientist.
- rue Domat — Jean Domat (1625-1696), French jurist; the Écoles district.
- rue du Chat qui Pêche — Former shop sign.
- rue du Cimetière Saint-Benoist — Formerly led to the cemetery of the parish of Saint-Benoît.
- passage du Clos Bruneau — Locality name dating back to the Middle Ages.
- rue du Fouarre — From the schools that were once strewn with straw (in Old French: feurre, fouarre).
- place du Panthéon — This square surrounds the Panthéon.
- place du Petit Pont — Located at the head of the Petit Pont.
- rue du Petit Pont — Leads to the Petit Pont.
- rue Du Sommerard — Alexandre Du Sommerard (1779-1842), French antiquarian, founder of the Cluny museum; near that museum.
- rue Frédéric Sauton — Frédéric Sauton (1844-1910), architect, municipal councillor for the 5th arrondissement.
- rue Galande — Ran alongside the enclosure known as the clos de Garlande, property of the Garlande family. This enclosure was divided into plots at the beginning of the 13th century.
- placette Jacqueline de Romilly — Jacqueline de Romilly (Chartres, 1913-Boulogne-Billancourt, 2010), philologist, woman of letters, professor and Hellenist.
- rue Jean de Beauvais — Jean de Dormans, cardinal, bishop of Beauvais and chancellor of France, founder of the collège de Dormans Beauvais and of its chapel under the patronage of Saint John.
- rue Lagrange — Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813), French mathematician.
- rue Laplace — Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French astronomer, mathematician and physicist; in the vicinity of the Ecole polytechnique.
- rue Malebranche — Father Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), French Oratorian and philosopher; district of the schools.
- place Marcelin Berthelot — Pierre Eugène Marcelin Berthelot (1827-1907), French chemist and politician.
- place Maubert — A corruption of the name of Aubert, abbot of Sainte-Geneviève, who allowed butchers' stalls to be built there (12th century).
- rue Paillet — Alphonse Gabriel Victor Paillet (1796-1855), lawyer; near the Faculty of Law.
- place Paul Painlevé — Paul Painlevé (1863-1933), French mathematician and statesman.
- rue Pierre Sarrazin — Pierre Sarrazin, a 13th-century burgher.
- rue Racine — Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright; near the théâtre de l'Odéon.
- rue Saint-Étienne du Mont — Near the church of Saint-Etienne du Mont.
- rue Saint-Jacques — Owes its name to a former chapel of Saint-Jacques, given in the 13th century to the Dominicans, thereafter nicknamed Jacobins.
- rue Saint-Julien le Pauvre — Former path leading to the church of Saint-Julien le Pauvre.
- rue Saint-Séverin — Runs alongside the church of Saint-Séverin.
- place Sainte-Geneviève — Located at the north-east corner of the place du Panthéon, in front of the church of Saint-Etienne du Mont, where the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève, patron saint of Paris, is kept.
- impasse Salembrière — Alteration of Saille en Bien, the name of an individual who lived there in the 13th century.
- rue Soufflot — Jacques Germain Soufflot (1713-1780), French architect of the Panthéon.
- rue Thénard — Baron Louis Jacques Thénard (1777-1857), French chemist; near the Collège de France, where he taught.
- rue Toullier — Charles Bonaventure Marie Toullier (1752-1835), French jurist; near the Faculty of Law.
- rue Valette — Claude Denis Auguste Valette (1805-1878), jurist; near the Faculty of Law.
- rue Victor Cousin — Victor Cousin (1792-1867), French historian and philosopher; near the Sorbonne.
- rue Xavier Privas — Antoine Paul Taravel, known as Xavier Privas (1863-1927), poet and songwriter.
Source: City of Paris, official street names (ODbL).
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