(c)-F.Humbert

L'ancien quartier latin
- Rue Descartes et Clovis


A guided walk with Google maps and street view through
the Ancient Latin area





La rue Descartes (en rouge ci-dessus) et la rue Clovis joignent le quartier de la rue Mouffetard et St Marcel avec le Quartier St Geneviève - Panthéon non loin de la place de la Contrescarpe.

Rue Descartes (in Red above ) and rue Clovis join the area of the rue Mouffetard and St Marcel with the one of St Geneviève - Panthéon not far from place Contrescarpe.



Rendez-vous surplace en images avec Google images
or view Images from the location through Google








Midnight in Paris


A scene of Montparnasse by Edouard Cortès



Gertrude Stein is mentioned in the movie Midnight in Paris, she lived in the quartier Latin near the Luxembourg Gardens the Alliance Française and Montparnasse.



The old Peugeot car in this Woody Allen movie, is a witty clin d'oeil to Jean Cocteau cinema classic le Testament D'Orphée and its time travelling, stops near the rue de la Montagne Ste Genevieve and the Wall of the Ecole Polytechnique, the Philosophe and Mathematician Henri Pointcarré the father of Polytechnique, lived inside the old school grounds and was also one of the fathers of the Alliance Française.