A 2-hour intellectual journey through the homes and haunts of France's greatest thinkers: Descartes, Voltaire, Diderot, Sartre, and Beauvoir.
This route has 5 stops.
Start at the home of René Descartes, father of modern philosophy and author of "Cogito, ergo sum."
The house where Voltaire died in 1778, champion of civil liberties and author of Candide.
The residence where Denis Diderot spent his final years, editor of the Encyclopédie.
Place Sartre-Beauvoir, named after the iconic couple who defined 20th-century existentialism.
End at Café de Flore, where Sartre and Beauvoir held court and wrote their major works.