Paris Latin Quarter: The French Writers Tour｜France

Notre-Dame & Victor Hugo
We begin outside Notre-Dame, the cathedral that inspired The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Why did Hugo become so obsessed with this building and how did his novel help save it?

The Sorbonne & Modern France
Walk through the Latin Quarter and discover the writers who shaped postwar French culture: Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras and Françoise Sagan. Who were they, what did they believe, and why did Paris become their stage?

The Panthéon: Who Gets In?
Visit the final resting place of some of France’s greatest writers. Discover who made it into the Panthéon and who didn’t.

Théâtre de l’Odéon
Take a seat outside this beautiful theatre and explore French drama, from Molière to Yasmina Reza.

Sartre, Beauvoir & the headquarter of Boulevard Saint-Germain
Finish near the legendary Café de Flore, where Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir wrote, argued and built one of the most unconventional relationships in literary history.

And one final question: Why don’t today’s great French writers live in the Latin Quarter anymore?

By the end, you won’t just have walked through Paris. You’ll have walked through French literature.