The rue de l'Odéon is a street in the Odéon quarter of the

6th arrondissement of Paris The 6th arrondissement of Paris (''VIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ''le sixième''. The arrondissement, called Luxembourg in a reference to the seat o ...

on the

Left Bank In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water. Different structures are referred to as ''banks'' in different fields of geography, as follows. In limnology (the study of inland waters), a stream bank or river bank is the terra ...

. Because of the presence of two

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bookstores, run respectively by

Adrienne Monnier Adrienne Monnier (26 April 1892 – 19 June 1955) was a French bookseller, writer, and publisher, and an influential figure in the modernist writing scene in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Formative years Monnier was born in Paris on 26 April 18 ...

and Sylvia Beach, and the coterie of emergent Anglophone writers surrounding them,

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...

nicknamed it " Stratford-on-Odéon". Monnier and Beach thought of it as ''Odéonia''.

History

This street was constructed from 1780 onwards following letters patent of 10 August 1779 to establish the ''Théâtre-Français du faubourg Saint-Germain'' (now the

Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe ( en, European Music Hall) (formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon ( en, Music Hall)) is one of France's six national theatres. It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank ...

Notable residents

* 7:

opened her bookshop, ''La Maison des amis des livres'', here in 1915. * 10:

Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In th ...

, the Anglo-French-American intellectual lived here from 1797 to 1802. * 12: Sylvia Beach moved her bookshop Shakespeare and Company here from 8 rue Dupuytrens in 1922 and published '' Ulysses'' by

from this address in 1922. It was closed during

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in 1941 and never re-opened, despite being personally liberated by

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century f ...

. * 12:

George Antheil George Johann Carl Antheil (; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of t ...

lived above Shakespeare and Company. * 18:

Agnes Goodsir Agnes Noyes Goodsir (18 June 1864 – 11 August 1939) was an Australian portrait painter who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Goodsir was born in Portland, Victoria, Australia, one of eleven children born to David James Cook Go ...

, the Australian artist, lived here in the 1920s and 30s with her companion, Rachel Dunn. * 21: Romanian philosopher

Emil Cioran Emil Mihai Cioran (, ; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms. ...

lived at this address for most of his life. * 22:

Camille Desmoulins Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins (; 2 March 17605 April 1794) was a French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. Desmoulins was tried and executed alongside Georges Danton when the Committee ...

with his wife

Lucile Desmoulins Anne-Lucile-Philippe Desmoulins, born Laridon-Duplessis (18 January 1770 in Paris – 13 April 1794) was a French revolutionary, diarist, and author during the French Revolution. She was married to the revolutionary Camille Desmoulins. She was ...

and

Fabre d'Églantine Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine (, 28 July 1750 – 5 April 1794), commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine, was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for having invented the names of ...

lived in the house at this number, at the junction with the Place de l'Odéon, until they were arrested and subsequently executed on 5 April 1794. * 22:

Joachim Barrande Joachim Barrande (11 August 1799 – 5 October 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. Career Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées at Paris. A ...

, the French palaeontologist living in Prague used to rent a flat in this house.

Transport

The nearest

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is Odéon on Lines 4 and 10. It is served by RATP buses, numbers 84, 87 and 89.

Notes and sources

Notes Sources * This article began as a translation of its French equivalent. * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Odeon Streets in the 6th arrondissement of Paris