Paris, France - Video Tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Part 1)
Welcome for this new video tour of a great neighborhood of Paris by New York Habitat ( ). Today we are going to visit another lively part of Paris in this video tour: Saint-Germain-des-Prés!
This will be the first episode of a three-part series dedicated to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, so be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel ( )or check back on our blog ( ).
The Saint-Germain-des-Prés area stretches just south of the Seine and east of the Latin Quarter, and was once a large monastery and a tiny market town. Its name in French means Saint Germain in the meadows, and that was exactly where it was located: outside the walls of the city.
The monastery was founded in 532 by Childebert, the second king of France. It became rich and powerful, but did not survive the Viking raids of the 9th century. The monks then camped in the ruins until 990, when the monastery was rebuilt by King Robert the Pious.
The town between it and the city was a very lively place. Eventually theaters started popping up. By the 17th century, the town boasted the composer Lully's first opera house, Moliere's first theatre and the first Comédie Française. It eventually became a well-known literary and artistic center.
With construction starting in approximately 1000 A.D., the Eglise Saint-Germain-des-Prés is the oldest existing church in Paris. Most of it is Romanesque. The rounded arches, small windows and heavy walls of the bell tower are typical of the Romanesque style.
The area soon became a center for artists, intellectuals and writers. Already in the 17th century, the village was home to writers like Racine and La Rochefoucault. In the 19th century painters like Delacroix and Manet, and writers like Balzac settled here. Benjamin Franklin and Oscar Wilde lived near the square, as well. In the 1920s, many Americans were attracted by the charm of the neighborhood. Hemingway and his wife lived here, and Henry Miller often found himself in the district. Later, Picasso moved here and this is where he painted Guernica.
Life here still centers on the square in front of the church and on 3 famous cafés nearby. The square is a popular meeting place, often featuring musicians and sculpture displays.
Les Deux Magots, located at 6 place de l'Eglise Saint-Germain-des-Prés, is named for 2 Chinese figures on the wall inside, left over from when the café was a silk merchant's shop. When it opened, the café was a favorite of the poets Verlaine and Rimbaud. In the 1930s, Picasso liked to come here. In the late 30s, the café was frequented by the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre and the writers Camus and Prévert.
When the café became a favorite of the Germans occupying Paris, Sartre and his colleagues abandoned it for Café de Flore on the next block, at 172 Boulevard Saint-Germain. The owner gave them the upstairs to sit, drink coffee and write. Sartre wrote his famous treatise Being and Nothingness in this location.
The other famous drinking place is the Brasserie Lipp, across the street at 151 Boulevard Saint-Germain. It was favored by the poets André Gide and Paul Valéry in the 1920s and it was here that Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms.
The Institut de France, at 23 quai Conti, with its distinctive dome was built in the 17th century for Louis XIV's Prime Minister, Mazarin. It is now the French Institute, the headquarters of the five French academies of arts and sciences. The most famous academy is the Académie Française, whose jurisdiction is the French language.
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We hope you have enjoyed the Saint-Germain area, a neighborhood where history and culture meet.
Thank you for watching this video tour by New York Habitat. We hope to see you soon, sipping coffee like a local, in the heart of St-Germain-des-Prés.
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A Walk Around Saint-Germain-des-Pres', Paris
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the rue des Saints-Pères on the west, between the rue de Seine and rue Mazarine on the east, and the rue du Four on the south. Residents of the quarter are known as Germanopratins.
The quarter has several famous cafés, including Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore, le Procope, and the Brasserie Lipp, and a large number of bookstores and publishing houses. In the 1940s and 1950s, it was the centre of the existentialist movement (associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir). It is also home to the École des Beaux-Arts, the famed school of fine arts, and the Musée national Eugène Delacroix, in the former apartment and studio of painter Eugène Delacroix.
Paris, France - Video Tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Part 3)
Hello and welcome for another video tour of Paris by New York Habitat ( ). Today, we will be visiting the great neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés with David Hill. This is the third and last part of our series dedicated to this charming and historical neighborhood of Paris.
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés is located just south of the Seine River and west of the Latin Quarter. It was once home to a large monastery, and a tiny market town.
On Boulevard Saint-Germain, you will certainly appreciate to do some window shopping at Emporio Armani and Louis Vuitton, among others. If you are looking for smaller French designers, you will love strolling on rue du Four and rue Bonaparte.
If it is food you are after, you will find plenty of interesting food shops, pastry shops, delicatessens, and several delicious up-market chocolate shops, like Debaune & Gallais on rue des Saints Pères or Patrick Roger on Boulevard Saint-Germain.
The rue de Buci is one of the liveliest in the area. A food market in the day, it is a great place for pastries, desserts, delicatessens and ice cream. You will also enjoy the lively bars and cafés in the evening.
Le Procope, at 13 rue de l'Ancienne Comédie, is the oldest existing café in Paris. It was founded in 1686 and attracted famous writers, like La Fontaine, Voltaire, Diderot and Benjamin Franklin, and even Napoléon Bonaparte and Oscar Wilde.
On rue Saint-André-des-Arts, you will find the passageway of the Cour du Commerce Saint-André, which is one of the only covered passageways in Paris, and where Dr. Guillotin perfected its invention, the dreaded guillotine.
The best way to recover after a long day of shopping in Saint-Germain-des-Prés is to go home. And a home is exactly what you get when you rent an apartment in Saint-Germain-des-Prés with New York Habitat ( ). New York Habitat offers hundreds of vacation rentals ( ) and furnished apartments ( ) in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and all over Paris. There is no better way to experience the flavors of Paris than to live in a true Parisian apartment.
Eventually, if you are looking for fine restaurants, here are some great choices:
Polidor (41 rue Monsieur Le Prince) offers reasonably priced traditional food and atmosphere.
Le Comptoir (9 Carrefour de l'Odéon) serves inventive contemporary food by a well-known chef.
Le Bistrot Mazarin (42 rue Mazarine) was patronized by the Parisians for its good food and wine.
Le Petit Zinc (11 rue Saint-Benoît) is a charming and tasteful restaurant, close to the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Church.
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Thank you for watching this video tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. We hope you enjoyed it, and hope to hear from you soon for your next trip to Paris.
Paris, France - Video Tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Part 2)
Hello and welcome to another video tour of a fantastic neighborhood in Paris by New York Habitat ( ). Today, David Hill will take you on a tour of Saint-Germain-des-Pres for the second part of our series on this wonderful neighborhood in Paris, France
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Saint-Germain-des-Pres is located just south of the Seine River and west of the Latin Quarter. It was once home to a large monastery, and a tiny market town.
Our first stop in this video tour will be the rather busy road leading to the Montparnasse Tower, i.e. the rue de Rennes. New Orleans Jazz and Be Bop were introduced here by the likes of Miles Davis and Duke Ellington. In the 1950s, the numerous cellars were the place to hear singers like Serge Gainsbourg, Georges Brassens, and Jacques Brel. Today, the jazz cellars have been replaced with trendy clothes, shoes and accessories boutiques.
Walking along the Saint-Germain Church on rue de l'Abbaye, you will come to the Place de Furstemberg, where the artist Delacroix had its last apartment and studio, which is now home to the Delacroix Museum.
It is also here, at the corner of the rue de Furstemberg and rue Cardinale, that Harry and Caresse Crossby, two American expatriates of the 1920s, set up a printer that published works by D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Proust, and Henry James.
For all the art-lovers out there, the rue de Seine and the streets leading off it are well renowned for their art dealers and galleries. Moreover, at number 31, you will find the home of George Sand, where she first lived when she came to Paris. She was a successful novelist, and she was also known as the mistress of the famous composer and pianist Chopin.
Our last stop will be the Odeon Theater, which was inaugurated by Marie-Antoinette in 1872. It is recognizable for its massive neo-classical columns, and it is here that the play The Marriage of Figaro was staged for the first time.
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Today's video tour of Saint-Germain-des-Pres has now come to its end. Thank you for joining us, and we look forward to seeing you soon living like a true Parisian in Saint-Germain-des-Pres!
Continue watching with Part 3 of our Video Tour:
Church of St Germain de Pres, Paris
Inside the church of Saint Germain-de-Pres in Paris.
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Church of Saint Germain des Pres
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Church of Saint Germain des Pres
The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria. At that time, the Left Bank of Paris was prone to flooding from the Seine, so much of the land could not be built upon and the Abbey stood in the middle of meadows, or prés in French, thereby explaining its appellation.
The Abbey was founded in the 6th century by the son of Clovis I, Childebert I (ruled 511–558). Under royal patronage the Abbey became one of the richest in France, as demonstrated by its ninth-century polyptych; it housed an important scriptorium in the eleventh century and remained a center of intellectual life in the French Catholic church until it was disbanded during the French Revolution. An explosion of saltpetre in storage levelled the Abbey and its cloisters, but the church was spared. the statues in the portal were removed (illustration) and some destroyed, and in a fire in 1794 the library vanished in smoke. The abbey church remains as the Église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, one of the oldest churches in Paris.
In 542, while making war in Spain, Childebert raised his siege of Zaragoza when he heard that the inhabitants had placed themselves under the protection of the martyr Saint Vincent. In gratitude the bishop of Zaragoza presented him with the saint's stole. When Childebert returned to Paris, he caused a church to be erected to house the relic, dedicated to the Holy Cross and Saint Vincent, placed where he could see it across the fields from the royal palace on the Île de la Cité.
In 558, St. Vincent's church was completed and dedicated by Germain, Bishop of Paris on 23 December; on the very same day, Childebert died. Close by the church a monastery was erected. Its abbots had both spiritual and temporal jurisdiction over the suburbs of Saint-Germain (lasting till about the year 1670). The church was frequently plundered and set on fire by Vikings in the ninth century. It was rebuilt in 1014 and rededicated in 1163 by Pope Alexander III to Saint Germain of Paris, the canonized Bishop of Paris and Childeric's chief counsellor. The great wall of Paris subsequently built during the reign of Philip II of France did not encompass the abbey, leaving the residents to fend for themselves. This also had the effect of splitting the Abbey's holdings into two. A new refectory was built for the monastery by Peter of Montereau in around 1239 - he was later the architect of the Sainte-Chapelle.
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Sunday Evening in Saint-Germain-des-Prés
A pleasant Sunday Evening at the end of summer in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood of Paris, France. Saint-Germain-des-Prés is an area at the west end of the Latin Quarter that is famous for its literary life, with its many cafés and restaurants, some of which are famous and once were hangouts for many well known writers. The area also was a center for publishing houses, although most of those have moved to lower-cost headquarters in the suburbs now. Today the area is filled with tourists and Parisians and continues to be a favorite spot for meeting friends, dining, drinking and talking on open sidewalk terraces, and so on. The area is named after the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which is one of the oldest in Paris, with some remaining parts dating back as far as the 7th century AD.
There are also many art galleries in the area that are open on Sundays.
This video shows the area around the church and the boulevard Saint-Germain, the rue de Seine, rue de Buci, Odéon area, Cour du Commerce Saint-André, etc.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is normally hyphenated but I skipped the hyphens in the video because they are so unwieldy.
This video also shows the tiniest park in Paris, the Rue Visconti Garden, at 02:26.
Paris, Abbey Saint Germain Des Pres
A walk through the oldest church in Paris : The Benedictine Abbey St. Germain des Pres. We might step into the time thousands of years ago... while listening to the Benedictines who devotedly offer their hymn to God.... and suddenly silence begins to talk .... the mystery unfolds
Paris, France - Video tour of Saint-Germain-des-Pres
Paris [France] Saint-Germain Des Pres is an amazing neighourhood in Paris [France]!
The Saint-Germain-des-Prés area stretches just south of the Seine and east of the Latin Quarter, and was once a large monastery and a tiny market town. Its name in French means Saint Germain in the meadows, and that was exactly where it was located: outside the walls of the city.
The monastery was founded in 532 by Childebert, the second king of France. It became rich and powerful, but did not survive the Viking raids of the 9th century. The monks then camped in the ruins until 990, when the monastery was rebuilt by King Robert the Pious.
The town between it and the city was a very lively place. Eventually theaters started popping up. By the 17th century, the town boasted the composer Lully's first opera house, Moliere's first theatre and the first Comédie Française. It eventually became a well-known literary and artistic center.
With construction starting in approximately 1000 A.D., the Eglise Saint-Germain-des-Prés is the oldest existing church in Paris. Most of it is Romanesque. The rounded arches, small windows and heavy walls of the bell tower are typical of the Romanesque style.
The area soon became a center for artists, intellectuals and writers. Already in the 17th century, the village was home to writers like Racine and La Rochefoucault. In the 19th century painters like Delacroix and Manet, and writers like Balzac settled here. Benjamin Franklin and Oscar Wilde lived near the square, as well. In the 1920s, many Americans were attracted by the charm of the neighborhood. Hemingway and his wife lived here, and Henry Miller often found himself in the district. Later, Picasso moved here and this is where he painted Guernica.
Life here still centers on the square in front of the church and on 3 famous cafés nearby. The square is a popular meeting place, often featuring musicians and sculpture displays.
Les Deux Magots, located at 6 place de l'Eglise Saint-Germain-des-Prés, is named for 2 Chinese figures on the wall inside, left over from when the café was a silk merchant's shop. When it opened, the café was a favorite of the poets Verlaine and Rimbaud. In the 1930s, Picasso liked to come here. In the late 30s, the café was frequented by the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre and the writers Camus and Prévert.
When the café became a favorite of the Germans occupying Paris, Sartre and his colleagues abandoned it for Café de Flore on the next block, at 172 Boulevard Saint-Germain. The owner gave them the upstairs to sit, drink coffee and write. Sartre wrote his famous treatise Being and Nothingness in this location.
The other famous drinking place is the Brasserie Lipp, across the street at 151 Boulevard Saint-Germain. It was favored by the poets André Gide and Paul Valéry in the 1920s and it was here that Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms.
The Institut de France, at 23 quai Conti, with its distinctive dome was built in the 17th century for Louis XIV's Prime Minister, Mazarin. It is now the French Institute, the headquarters of the five French academies of arts and sciences. The most famous academy is the Académie Française, whose jurisdiction is the French language.
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Choir Rehearsal at the Church of St. Germain des Pres, Paris
June 16, 2016. We wandered into the church and heard this wonderful choir rehearsing.
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Ah, Sunday in Paris ... another gorgeous church, street musicians serenading us with jazz and traditional French music, Laduree appeared in front of us, tempting us with macarons in every color of the rainbow, and we ended up taste testing one of them on the grounds of the spectacular Louvre. Merci, Paris. :)
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Eglise Saint Germain des Prés, Paris, Church
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Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Saint Germain des Pres Quarter
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Saint Germain des Pres Quarter
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the rue des Saints-Pères on the west, between the rue de Seine and rue Mazarine on the east, and the rue du Four on the south. Residents of the quarter are known as Germanopratins.
The quarter has several famous cafés, including Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore, le Procope, and the Brasserie Lipp, and a large number of bookstores and publishing houses. In the 1940s and 1950s, it was the centre of the existentialist movement (associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir). It is also home to the École des Beaux-Arts, the famed school of fine arts, and the Musée national Eugène Delacroix, in the former apartment and studio of painter Eugène Delacroix.
Until the 17th century the land where the quarter is located was prone to flooding from the Seine, and little building took place there; it was largely open fields, or Prés, which gave the quarter its name. In 1673 the most famous theatrical troupe in the city, the Comédie-Française, was expelled from its building on rue Saint‑Honoré and moved to left bank
Many writers have written about this Parisian district in prose such as Boris Vian, Marcel Proust, Gabriel Matzneff (see La Nation française), Jean-Paul Caracalla or in Japanese poetry in the case of Nicolas Grenier. Egyptian writer Albert Cossery spent the later part of his life living in a hotel in this district. James Baldwin frequented the cafés, written about in Notes of a Native Son. Charles Dickens describes the fictional Tellson's Bank as established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris in his novel A Tale of Two Cities.
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The church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés holds Christmas Eve midnight mass, Notre Dame mass canceled. 4k
Parisians and Catholics worldwide mourned the absence of Christmas mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019—a first since the French Revolution. The loss was especially painful in the wake of news from the church's rector, who said there's a 50 percent chance the landmark may not be able to be saved. Here we at another important church on the Left bank. A moving experience for me...The church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés existed before the Paris we know today did. That is definitely a part of the reasons why it is so special to attend the Christmas Midnight Mass here. The Saint-Germain-des-Prés church is now almost completely transformed after several months of renovation. As soon as you enter, you’re met with bursts of colour that are not usually seen in such a building. You’d almost think the place was brand new…Merry Christmas!
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Paris - Église di Saint-Germain-des-Prés - Abbazia di Saint-Germain-des-Prés
L'abbazia di Saint-Germain-des-Prés è uno dei più antichi luoghi di culto cattolici di Parigi. Del complesso, attualmente rimane soltanto la chiesa, uno dei primi edifici in stile gotico della città, costruita in luogo di una più antica tra il 1014 e il 1163; essa è attualmente sede dell'omonima parrocchia, appartenente all'arcidiocesi di Parigi.
La chiesa si affaccia su place Saint Germain des Prés, all'angolo tra Boulevard Saint-Germain e rue Bonaparte e si trova nei pressi della stazione della metropolitana di Parigi Saint-
Iglesia de Saint Germain des Pres París
Maravillas del Barrio Latino. Observen el altar y la austeridad de la capilla diaria.
Paris Eglise St Thomas d'Aquin Saint Germain des Près
Une paroisse tout près du 222 bd St Germain des Près Paris 7ème