Lonely Planet Pocket Paris

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788681742
• Print ISBN:
  9781786572813

Musée d’Orsay & St-Germain des Prés

Literary buffs, antique collectors and fashionistas flock to this fabled part of Paris. Artists and writers such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald hung out here and further south in Montparnasse, where you’ll find surviving brasseries alongside redevelopments underway on its train station and landmark skyscraper.

Pay homage to writers Sartre and de Beauvoir and singer Serge Gainsbourg in the Cimetière du Montparnasse and get a contemporary-art fix at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain. Stroll through the beautiful Jardin du Luxembourg en route to viewing Delacroix’ works in the Église St-Sulpice and Musée National Eugène Delacroix. Stop by the Église St-Germain des Prés and famous literary cafes such as Les Deux Magots. Entry to the Musée d’Orsay is cheaper in the late afternoon, so it’s an ideal time to check out its breathtaking collections.

Les Deux Magots | EQROY/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Getting There & Around

m St-Germain des Prés (line 4), Mabillon (line 10) and Odéon (lines 4 and 10) are in the heart of the action.

m Montparnasse Bienvenüe (lines 4, 6, 12 and 13) is Montparnasse’s hub.

f The hop-on, hop-off Batobus stops outside the Musée d’Orsay and at quai Malaquais in St-Germain des Prés.

Top SightMusée d’Orsay

The home of France’s national collection from the impressionist, postimpressionist and art nouveau movements spanning from 1848 to 1914 is the glorious former Gare d’Orsay railway station – itself an art nouveau showpiece – where a roll-call of m...

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