The 5th arrondissement of Paris (''V^e arrondissement'') is one of the 20

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of the capital city of

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. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''le cinquième''. The arrondissement, also known as Panthéon, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the

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. It is one of the capital's central arrondissements. The arrondissement is notable for being the location of the Quartier Latin, a district dominated by universities, colleges and prestigious high schools since the 12th century when the

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was created. It is also home to the

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and Jardin des plantes in its eastern part. The 5th arrondissement is also one of the oldest districts of the city, dating back to ancient times. Traces of the area's past survive in such sites as the Arènes de Lutèce, a

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, as well as the Thermes de Cluny, a Roman ''

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''.

Geography

The 5th arrondissement covers some 2.541 km² (0.981 sq. miles, or 628 acres) in central Paris.

Demography

The population of the arrondissement peaked in 1911 when the population density reached almost 50,000 inhabitants per km². In 2009, the population was 61,531, while 48,909 worked in the arrondissement.

Historical population

Immigration

History

The V^e arrondissement is the oldest arrondissement in Paris, and was first built by the Romans. The construction of the Roman town '' Lutetia'' dates back from the 1st century BC, which was built after the conquest of the

Gaul Gaul ( la, Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first described by the Romans. It was inhabited by Celtic and Aquitani tribes, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, most of Switzerland, parts of Northern Italy (only during ...

ish site, situated on the

île de la Cité The Île de la Cité (; English: City Island) is an island in the river Seine in the center of Paris. In the 4th century, it was the site of the fortress of the Roman governor. In 508 Clovis I, the first King of the Franks, established his pal ...

by the Romans. Saint-Hilaire is a ruined 12th-century church in Paris, active until the

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Government and infrastructure

The Ministry of Higher Education and Research has its head office in the arrondissement. Previously the Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Événements de Mer (BEAmer) had its head office in the 5th arrondissement.

Economy

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." Paris. November 16, 2017. "6, rue Amyot, 75005 Paris, France"

Maps

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Cityscape

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Places of interest

* Arènes de Lutèce * Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève * Centre de la Mer et des Eaux * Fontaine Saint-Michel *

Institut du Monde Arabe The ''Institut du Monde Arabe'', French for Arab World Institute, abbreviated ''IMA'', is an organization founded in Paris in 1980 by France with 18 Arab countries to research and disseminate information about the Arab world and its cultural ...

''(Arab World Institute)'' * Jardin des Plantes and the

Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

Maison de la Mutualité The Maison de la Mutualité (often shortened to la Mutualité) is a conference center at 24 Rue Saint-Victor, 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. The closest métro station is Maubert-Mutualité. It is the headquarters of the federation of no ...

Montagne Sainte-Geneviève The Montagne Sainte-Geneviève is a hill overlooking the left bank of the Seine in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. It was known to the ancient Romans as .Hilaire Belloc, '' Paris (Methuen & Company, 1900)'' Retrieved June 14, 2016 Atop the Mon ...

Musée de Cluny The Musée de Cluny ("Cluny Museum", ), also known as Musée national du Moyen Âge – Thermes et hôtel de Cluny ("National Museum of the Middle Ages – Cluny thermal baths and mansion"), is a museum of the Middle Ages in Paris, ...

, hosting the Thermes de Cluny * Musée de l'Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris *

Musée Curie The Musée Curie (Curie Museum) is a historical museum focusing on radiological research. It is located in the 5th arrondissement at 1, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, and open Wednesday to Saturday, from 1pm to 5pm; admission is fr ...

* Musée des Collections Historiques de la Préfecture de Police * Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air * The Panthéon * Quartier Latin *

Val-de-Grâce The (' or ') was a military hospital located at in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was closed as a hospital in 2016. History The church of the was built by order of Queen Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII. After the birth of h ...

military hospital

Religious buildings

* Church of Val de Grâce * Saint-Ephrem church * Notre-Dame-du-Liban church *

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine of St. Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris. The church also contains the tombs of ...

church * Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas church * Saint-Jean-l'Evangéliste church *

Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, in full Église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre ( French for ''Church of Saint Julian the Poor''), is a Melkite Greek Catholic parish church in Paris, France, and one of the city's oldest religious buildings. Begun in Romanesque st ...

church *

Saint-Medard, Paris Saint-Médard, Paris, is a Roman Catholic church located at 105 Rue Mouffetard in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. It takes its name from Saint Medard, the bishop of Noyon in northern France, who was protector of Queen Razdegonde, and helped her ...

church * Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet church * Saint-Séverin church * La Grande Mosquée ( Great Mosque of Paris), created in 1922 after

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, as a sign of recognition from the nation to the fallen Muslim '' tirailleurs'' who lost their lives at

Verdun Verdun (, , , ; official name before 1970 ''Verdun-sur-Meuse'') is a large city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital ...

(and in the take-back of Douaumont fort)

Colleges and universities

As part of the Latin Quarter, the 5th arrondissement is known for its high concentration of educational and research establishments. * Collège de France * Collège international de philosophie *

École Polytechnique École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

(historical campus; the school has now been relocated) * PSL University **

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

** ENSCP - Chimie Paris ** ESPCI Paris * Sorbonne University - ''Faculté des sciences'' **

Jussieu Campus The Jussieu Campus (''Campus Universitaire de Jussieu'') is a higher education campus located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the main campus of the Faculty of Science of Sorbonne University. Paris-VII University (now merged ...

* Université Paris Cité ** Faculté de médecine de Paris Centre **

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris - Université de Paris (IPGP, University of Paris; French for "Paris Institute of Earth Physics") is a French governmental, non-profit research and higher education establishment located in Paris, dedica ...

* Sorbonne ** Sorbonne University - ''Faculté des Lettres'' ** University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne ** University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle ** Rectorate of Paris * Famous lycées with

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to the ''

Grandes écoles Grandes may refer to: *Agustín Muñoz Grandes Agustín Muñoz Grandes (27 January 1896 – 11 July 1970) was a Spanish general, and politician, vice-president of the Spanish Government and minister with Francisco Franco several times; also know ...

'' ** Lycée Louis-le-Grand **

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Main streets and squares

* Rue des Anglais * Rue de l'Arbalète * Rue des Arènes * Square des Arènes de Lutèce * Rue des Bernardins * Rue Boutebrie * Rue Buffon * Rue du Cardinal-Lemoine * Rue des Carmes * Rue Censier * Rue Claude Bernard * Rue de la Clef * Rue Clovis * Place de la Contrescarpe * Rue

Cujas Jacques Cujas (or Cujacius) (Toulouse, 1522 – Bourges, 4 October 1590) was a French legal expert. He was prominent among the legal humanists or ''mos gallicus'' school, which sought to abandon the work of the medieval Commentators and concen ...

* Rue

Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in nat ...

* Rue

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ' ...

* Rue Descartes * Rue des Écoles * Rue de l'Estrapade * Rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard * Rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques * Avenue des Gobelins * Rue Gay-Lussac * Rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire *

Rue de la Harpe The rue de la Harpe is a street in Paris' Latin Quarter. Relatively calm and cobblestoned along much of its length, it runs in a south-easterly direction between the rue de la Huchette and the rue Saint-Séverin, where it turns south-west to whe ...

* Rue de la Huchette * Place Jussieu * Rue Jussieu * Rue Lacépède * Rue

Lagrange Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi LagrangiaLinné * Rue Le Goff * Rue Malebranche * Rue

Monge Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry. During ...

* Rue de la

Rue Mouffetard Rue Mouffetard () is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. Situated in the fifth (''cinquième'') arrondissement of Paris, Rue Mouffetard is one of Paris's oldest and liveliest neighbourhoods. These days the area has many restaura ...

Place du Panthéon The Place du Panthéon ( las dy pɑ̃teɔ̃ is a square in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. Located in the Latin Quarter, it is named after and surrounds the Panthéon. Rue Soufflot, west of the Place du Panthéon, runs towards Boul ...

* Rue Poliveau * Rue des Prêtres-Saint-Séverin * Square René Viviani *

Boulevard Saint-Germain Boulevard Saint-Germain () is a major street in Paris on the Rive Gauche of the Seine. It curves in a 3.5-kilometre (2.1 miles) arc from the Pont de Sully in the east (the bridge at the edge of Île Saint-Louis) to the Pont de la Concorde ...

* Rue Saint-Jacques * Boulevard Saint-Michel * Rue Saint-Séverin * Rue de la Sorbonne * Rue

Soufflot Jacques-Germain Soufflot (, 22 July 1713 – 29 August 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous work is the Panthéon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards, originally as a church d ...

* Rue Thouin * Rue Tournefort * Rue d' Ulm * Rue Valette * Rue Xavier Privas

References

External links

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