Boulevard Saint Michel
| Latin was the language
of the Church in the Middle Ages, and that made it the language of
Education. Students were taught in Latin, and the University area on the
Left Bank is still known as the Latin Quarter. Paris has ten
universities, most of them based here south of the river, in the
second-oldest part of Paris. The ‘Main Street’ of the Quartier Latin is
the Boulevard Saint-Michel, known to all as Boul’Mich.
It runs parallel to the Roman main street (Via Superiora) now called Rue Saint-Jacques. Place Saint-Michel has a fountain (statue of St. Michael), trees, bookshops, market stalls. To the West is the area of Saint-André des Arts, full of pavement cafés and clothes shops. |
