Faubourg Saint-Germain

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Plan of Faubourg Saint-Germain around 1790

Faubourg Saint-Germain is a historic district of Paris that has long been considered the center of noble aristocratic society. The quarter named after Germanus of Paris consists roughly of the eastern part of today's 7th arrondissement between the Hôtel des Invalides , the Quai d'Orsay and the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the Rive Gauche .

In Chateaubriand , Balzac , Poe and Proust , the suburb (Faubourg) , which was newly settled in the 17th century , is described in detail in literary terms as an elitist social group . Hannah Arendt describes in her essay Faubourg Saint-Germain Proust's characters from the chapter Sodom and Gomorrah in In Search of Lost Time as an example of the rootlessness of assimilated Judaism in France.

Today the district is characterized by the Musée d'Orsay , the Palais Bourbon , the Musée Rodin , the Boulevard Saint-Germain , the Rue du Bac and a number of upscale hotels and cafés.

Individual evidence

  1. Hannah Arendt: Elements and origins of total rule , pp. 149–155.