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What to do in Val-de-Grace

In Val-de-Grace, today.paris tracks 121 places with verified opening hours — including Église du Val-de-Grâce, Musée Curie. 27 terraces on the City's official register · 16 cafés · 48 restaurants near you today, with their real hours.

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Monuments & viewpoints

The Church of the Val-de-Grâce (French pronunciation: [val də ɡʁɑs]) is a Roman Catholic church in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The church was built as part of a royal abbey by Anne of Austria, the Queen of France, to celebrate the birth of her son, Louis XIV in 1638.
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Saint-Jacques du Haut-Pas (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒak dy o pɑ]) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Paris, France. The church is located at the corner of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The first church on the site, a monastery chapel, was built in 1360.
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Museums & galleries

The Musée Curie (French pronunciation: [myze kyʁi], Curie Museum) is a historical museum focusing on radiological research. It is located in the 5th arrondissement at 1, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, and open Wednesday to Saturday, from 1pm to 5pm; admission is free.
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Restaurants in Val-de-Grace

  • 🍽️Arrivederci PizzeriaRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 12:00–14:30, 19:00–22:30 · à la carte
  • 🍽️I DiavolettiRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 12:00–14:30, 19:00–23:00 · à la carte
  • 🍽️Pasta & FagioliRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · 82 Rue Claude Bernard · ⏰ 12:00–15:00, 19:00–23:00 · à la carte
  • 🍽️Bibim BaoRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 11:00–22:00 · à la carte
  • 🍽️XuehongRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 11:30–14:30, 18:00–21:30 · à la carte — Website
  • 🍽️Hûng-Yên · Walking routeRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 12:00–14:30, 19:00–22:30 · à la carte
  • 🍽️Seoul MamaRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · 245 bis Rue Saint-Jacques · ⏰ 12:00–14:30, 19:00–22:30 · à la carte
  • 🍽️Bistrot Vin SobreRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 08:30–22:30 · à la carte
  • 🍽️NARestaurant · 5th arrondissement · 48 Rue Gay-Lussac · ⏰ 11:30–18:30 · à la carte
  • 🍽️L'Orée du Parc · Walking routeRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 08:30–24:00 · à la carte

Bars in Val-de-Grace

Cafés in Val-de-Grace

  • ☕Le Duo D&S · Walking routeCafé · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 09:00–23:00 · pay on site — Website
  • ☕Le MauzacCafé · 5th arrondissement · 7 Rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée · ⏰ 07:00–23:30 · pay on site — Website
  • ☕MelanéCafé · 5th arrondissement · 11bis Rue Vauquelin · ⏰ 09:00–19:00 · pay on site
  • ☕Garden Café ParisCafé · 5th arrondissement · 220 Rue Saint-Jacques · ⏰ 09:00–14:30 · pay on site
  • ☕Le Chatelier · Walking routeCafé · 5th arrondissement · 218 Rue Saint-Jacques · ⏰ 11:30–17:30 · pay on site — Website
  • ☕Entame · Walking routeCafé · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 09:00–16:00 · pay on site
  • ☕Graines du jourCafé · 5th arrondissement · 110 Rue Mouffetard · ⏰ 11:00–19:30 · pay on site — Website
  • ☕Le gamin de ParisCafé · 5th arrondissement · 139 Boulevard Saint-Michel · ⏰ 08:00–23:00 · pay on site
  • ☕Hmart · Walking routeCafé · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 10:00–22:00 · pay on site
  • ☕Le Verre Liseur · Walking routeCafé · 6th arrondissement · ⏰ 10:00–19:30 · pay on site

Pâtisseries in Val-de-Grace

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Where the street names come from

  • place Alfred Kastler — Alfred, Henri, Frédéric Kastler (Guchwiller, 1902-Bandol, 1984), agrégé in physical sciences; research director at the CNRS, member of the Academy of Sciences in 1964. He received the gold medal of the CNRS in 1965 and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966. Grand officer of the Legion of Honour and of the National Order of Merit.
  • place Alphonse Laveran — Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), French bacteriologist. A military physician, then attached to the Pasteur Institute, he became famous for his work on malaria; near the Val de Grâce military hospital.
  • rue Amyot — Jacques Amyot (1513-1593), bishop of Auxerre, writer; near the quartier des Ecoles.
  • rue Berthollet — Count Claude Louis Berthollet (1748-1822), chemist.
  • rue Blainville — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), naturalist; near the Jardin des Plantes.
  • rue Caroline et William Herschel — William Herschel, born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (Hanover (Germany), 1738 - Slough (England), 1822), German astronomer famous for his discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781. Caroline Herschel, born Carolina Lucretia Herschel (Hanover (Germany), 1750 - Hanover (Germany), 1848), German astronomer who assisted her brother William Herschel in his work and discovered several comets. Near the Observ…
  • rue Claude Bernard — Claude Bernard (1813-1878), French physiologist; the schools quarter.
  • rue d'Ulm — In memory of the capitulation of Ulm, a town which the Austrians surrendered to the French army on 17 October 1805.
  • rue de Bazeilles — Bazeilles, a commune in the Ardennes department, taken, sacked and burned by the Germans on 1 September 1870, after a heroic resistance.
  • rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée — Abbé Charles Michel de l'Epée (1712-1789), founder of the Institution for Deaf-Mutes; near this establishment.
  • rue de l'Arbalète — Former crossbow shooting range.
  • place de l'Estrapade — The punishment of the strappado was carried out on this square (a torture in which the victim was dropped on the end of a rope either into the water or to within a few feet of the ground).
  • rue de l'Estrapade — Led to the square where the strappado once stood.
  • boulevard de Port-Royal — Near the former monastery of Port-Royal.
  • rue des Feuillantines — The Feuillantine nuns had their convent here, founded in 1622.
  • rue des Irlandais — The former Irish college was located at no. 5 of this street.
  • rue des Lyonnais — It is said to have been opened on the land of a certain Lyonnet (or Lyonnait).
  • passage des Patriarches — Near the rue des Patriarches.
  • passage des Postes — Opened off the rue des Postes, today the rue Lhomond; the name rue des Postes was a corruption of rue des Poteries or rue des Pots, after the pottery works established on this side.
  • rue des Ursulines — Laid out on the site of the former Ursuline convent.
  • rue du Père Teilhard de Chardin — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Orcines, 1881-New York, 1955), French theologian, philosopher and palaeontologist.
  • rue du Pot de Fer — Former shop sign.
  • rue du Val de Grâce — Leads to the église du Val de Grâce.
  • rue Édouard Quénu — Edouard André Victor Alfred Quénu (1852-1933), surgeon, member of the Académie de Médecine and of the Institut.
  • place Emmanuel Levinas — Emmanuel Levinas (Kaunas (Lithuania), 1905-Paris, 1995), philosopher and writer.
  • rue Erasme — Erasme (1467-1536), Dutch humanist.
  • place Ernest Denis — Ernest Denis (1849-1921), historian; in the vicinity of the headquarters of the Institut d'Etudes slaves (9, rue Michelet), which he had founded and where he died.
  • rue Flatters — Flatters, a colonel killed in 1881 by the Tuareg during a mission to survey a railway from Algeria to Senegal.
  • rue Fustel de Coulanges — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889), historian, director of the Ecole normale; near that establishment.
  • rue Gay-Lussac — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), chemist; district of the Schools.
  • place Georges Moustaki — Georges Moustaki (Alexandria - 1934, Nice-2013), poet, author, singer, composer and performer.
  • rue Henri Barbusse — Henri Barbusse (1873-1935), French writer.
  • place Hubert Curien — Hubert Curien (Cornimont (Vosges), 1924 - Loury (Loiret), 2005), crystallographer, university professor and Minister of Research.
  • rue Jean Calvin — Jean Chauvin, known as Calvin (1509-1564), French religious reformer and writer.
  • rue Lagarde — Mr Lagarde, property owner.
  • square Lagarde — Mr Lagarde, property owner.
  • rue Laromiguière — Pierre Laromiguière (1756-1837), French philosopher.
  • rue Lhomond — Charles François Lhomond (1727-1794), French grammarian and scholar; near several public education establishments.
  • place Louis Marin — Louis Marin (1871-1960), French ethnographer and politician.
  • rue Louis Thuillier — Louis Thuillier, a young scientist who died of cholera in 1883, during a mission to Egypt to study that disease.
  • place Lucien Herr — Lucien Herr (1864-1926), librarian of the École normale supérieure.
  • rue Michelet — Jules Michelet (1798-1874), French historian and writer; near the rue d'Assas, where he had his last home.
  • rue Mouffetard — A corruption of Mont Cétard, an old place name.
  • rue Pierre Brossolette — Pierre Brossolette (1903-1944), French journalist, patriot; took his own life on 23 March 1944 at the time of his arrest by the German police.
  • rue Pierre et Marie Curie — Pierre Curie (1859-1906), French physicist, and Marie Sklodowska (1867-1934), his wife, French physicists of Polish origin, discovered radium; near the Institut du Radium.
  • place Pierre Lampué — Pierre Lampué (1836-1924), municipal councillor for the district.
  • rue Pierre Nicole — Pierre Nicole (1625-1695), French theologian of Port-Royal; near the former community of Port-Royal.
  • rue Rataud — Mr. Rataud, mayor of the 5th arrondissement.
  • rue Thouin — André Thouin (1746-1824), botanist; near the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, where he taught.
  • rue Tournefort — Joseph de Tournefort (1656-1708), French botanist; near the Jardin des Plantes.
  • rue Vauquelin — Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829), French chemist; the Écoles district.
  • square Vermenouze — Arsène Vermenouze (1850-1910), poet.

Source: City of Paris, official street names (ODbL).

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