A TRACE OF THE PAST AND A SIGN OF THE FUTURE

FACING THE PASSAGE IS A BOOKSTORE, VESTIGE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF EDITORS AND BOOKSTORES 

Librairie du Camée

70 rue Saint-André-des-Arts

Next to it until 2020 was a traditional restaurant that was excellent and inexpensive, run by a jovial patron 

Vins et Terroirs

66 Rue Saint-André des Arts

A shop for gadgets replaced it, then an Asian fast food:

Around the corner is another bookstore: "Would you accept to be in the photo?," I asked the client in the picture below. "It would show the venerable district of editors and bookstores." 

Librairie François Chanut

41 rue Mazarine

 

"Publish it soon!" he answered, "Before the last disappear."

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Turn left from the passage 

— the rampart ditch — 

 to the crossroads that was the Buci gate:

Just beyond it is Saint-Germain-des-PRÉS 

("in the fields"),

the countryside outside the wall.

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The rampart vestige in a parking lot