Saint-Germain-des-Prés district
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ' N , 2 ° 20' E
| Saint-Germain-des-Prés district | |
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| administration | |
| Country | France |
| region | Île-de-France |
| Arrondissement | 6th |
| Demographics | |
| population | 4581 |
| Transport links | |
| railway station | Saint-Germain-des-Prés |
| metro |  
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The Quartier Saint-Germain-des-Prés [ kaʀtje sɛ̃ ʒɛʀmɛ̃ de pʀe ], or Saint-Germain [ sɛ̃ ʒɛʀmɛ̃ ] for short , is a district in Paris . It is the 24th district of the French capital and is located in the 6th arrondissement south of the Seine in the Rive Gauche urban area . The district, which is centrally located in the city center, is named after the Saint-Germain-des-Prés abbey located there and is crossed by the Boulevard Saint-Germain .
history
The namesake of the abbey, Germanus of Paris , had the church built in 558 AD on pastureland behind the Île de la Cité . Hence the addition of the prés , in the meadows .
The quarter, part of the Latin Quarter, played an important role in the intellectual life of France for centuries. The seminary of St-Sulpice (Paris) located there trained famous personalities. In the middle of the 20th century, the quarter was considered the center of French existentialism around the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . In Saint-Germain-des-Prés there are famous cafés such as Les Deux Magots or Café de Flore , some of which became a meeting place for intellectuals and artists as early as the 1920s, at the latest from the 1950s . Writers , musicians , actors and filmmakers such as Boris Vian , Juliette Gréco , Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut were associated with the district between the 1950s and 1980s. From 1955, the famous Iris Clert gallery resided in the Rue des Beaux-Arts .
Nowadays, Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a magnet for tourists . The inhabitants of Saint-Germain-des-Prés are known in French as germanopratins . As is often the case in French, this gentilicon is closer to the Latin root than the locality name itself (French pré ; Latin prātŭm , meadow, floodplain).
The quarter in the film
- 1949: Rendez-vous de juillet (German: today's youth) by Jacques Becker
- 1950: Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés by André Berthomieu
- 1951: La Rose rouge by Marcello Pagliero
- 1958: Les Tricheurs (German: Those who deceive themselves ) by Marcel Carné
- 1960: À bout de souffle (Eng .: out of breath ) by Jean-Luc Godard
- 1973: La Maman et la Putain (German: The Mummy and the Whore ) by Jean Eustache
- 1986: Autour de minuit (German: At midnight ) by Bertrand Tavernier
The quarter in music
- 1950: Léo Ferré releases the chanson À Saint-Germain-des-Prés on a shellac record . New recordings appear in 1953 and 1969. Other performers also perform the chanson: Henri Salvador (1950), Hélène Martin , Cora Vaucaire , Anne Sofie von Otter (2013)
- 1961: Guy Béart composed Il n'y a plus d'après ... (à Saint-Germain-des-Prés) Also Juliette Greco has the song in their repertoire.
- 1967: In the Chanson Quartier Latin , Léo Ferré regrets the change in the quarter compared to his student days in 1930.
- 1991: Michel Sardou records La Main aux fesses , where he names the district “Saint-Germain-des-Clébards”.
Related articles
Individual evidence
- ↑ French lyrics
- ↑ German Saint Germains of the toads