A 2-hour walk through the essential literary landmarks of Saint-Germain: cafés, bookshops, and residences of Hemingway, Sartre, and Beauvoir.
This route has 6 stops.
Start at Shakespeare and Company, the legendary English-language bookshop beloved by the Lost Generation.
Les Deux Magots, the legendary café where Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus debated existentialism.
Café de Flore, another iconic existentialist café and intellectual gathering place.
Brasserie Lipp, the political and literary brasserie that shaped French culture.
Le Procope: Le Procope, the oldest café in Paris (1686) where Voltaire, Diderot, and Benjamin Franklin gathered.
End at Librairie Gallimard, the publisher's flagship bookstore where French literature was published.