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 Paris, arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ''le sixième''. The arrondissement, called Luxembourg in ...

on the

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. Because of the presence of two bohemian bookstores, run respectively by Adrienne Monnier and

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, and the coterie of emergent Anglophone writers surrounding them,

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

History

This street was constructed from 1780 onwards following

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of 10 August 1779 to establish the ''Théâtre-Français du faubourg Saint-Germain'' (now the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe).

Notable residents

* No. 7: Adrienne Monnier opened her bookshop, ''La Maison des amis des livres'', there in 1915. * No. 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 ...

, the Anglo-French-American intellectual lived there from 1797 to 1802. * No. 12:

moved her bookshop Shakespeare and Company there 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

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. * No. 12:

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lived above Shakespeare and Company. * No. 18: Agnes Goodsir, the Australian artist, lived there in the 1920s and 30s with her companion, Rachel Dunn. * No. 21: Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran lived at this address for most of his life. * No. 22:

Camille Desmoulins Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins (; 2 March 17605 April 1794) was a French journalist, politician and a prominent figure of the French Revolution. He is best known for playing an instrumental role in the events that led to the Stormin ...

with his wife Lucile Desmoulins 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 o ...

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. * No. 22: Joachim Barrande, the French palaeontologist living in

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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