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Coordinates:48°51′3.1″N2°20′19.3″E / 48.850861°N 2.338694°E /48.850861; 2.338694

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Street in Paris, France

Rue de l'Odéon
Construction
Rue de l'Odéon, looking towards thePlace de l'Odéon
Shown within Paris
Length	176 m (577 ft)
Width	13 m (43 ft)
Arrondissement	6th
Quarter	Odéon
Coordinates	48°51′3.1″N2°20′19.3″E / 48.850861°N 2.338694°E /48.850861; 2.338694
From	16, carrefour de l'Odéon
To	12, place de l'Odéon
Completion	1780
Denomination	Rue du Théâtre-Français

TheRue de l'Odéon is a street in theOdéon quarter of the6th arrondissement of Paris on theLeft Bank.

Because of the presence of twobohemian bookstores, run respectively byAdrienne Monnier andSylvia Beach, and the coterie of emergent Anglophone writers surrounding them,James Joyce nicknamed it "Stratford-on-Odéon".^[1] Monnier and Beach thought of it asOdéonia.^[2]

History

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This street was constructed from 1780 onwards followingletters patent of 10 August 1779 to establish theThéâtre-Français du faubourg Saint-Germain (now theOdéon-Théâtre de l'Europe).

Notable residents

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No. 7:Adrienne Monnier opened her bookshop,La Maison des amis des livres, there in 1915.^[3]
No. 10:Thomas Paine, the Anglo-French-American intellectual lived there from 1797 to 1802.
No. 12:Sylvia Beach moved her bookshopShakespeare and Company there from 8 rue Dupuytrens in 1922 and publishedUlysses byJames Joyce from this address in 1922.^[3] It was closed duringWorld War II in 1941 and never re-opened, despite being personally liberated byErnest Hemingway.^[4]
No. 12:George Antheil lived aboveShakespeare and Company.
No. 18:Agnes Goodsir, the Australian artist, lived there in the 1920s and 30s with her companion, Rachel Dunn.^[5]
No. 21: Romanian philosopherEmil Cioran lived at this address for most of his life.
No. 22:Camille Desmoulins with his wifeLucile Desmoulins andFabre d'Églantine lived in the house at this number, at the junction with thePlace de l'Odéon, until they were arrested and subsequently executed on 5 April 1794.
No. 22:Joachim Barrande, the French palaeontologist living inPrague used to rent a flat in this house.

Transport

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The nearestmetro station isOdéon on Lines 4 and 10. It is served byRATP buses, numbers 84, 87 and 89.

Notes and sources

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Notes

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^Glass (2009), p. 24.
^Monnier & McDougall (1996), pp. xiv, 3–5, 36–37.
^^a ^bGlass (2009), pp. 24–27.
^Garner (2010).
^Watson (2011).

Sources

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This article began as a translation of its French equivalent.
Garner, Dwight (18 April 2010)."Ex-Pat Paris as It Sizzled for One Literary Lioness".The New York Times. New York. Retrieved16 September 2011.
Glass, Charles (2009).Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation. London: Harper Collins.ISBN 978-0-00-722853-9.
Monnier, Adrienne; McDougall, Richard (1996) [1976].The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.ISBN 978-0-8032-8227-8.
Watson, Bronwyn (8 October 2011)."Public Works: Agnes Goodsir".The Australian.Surry Hills, New South Wales. Retrieved18 September 2012.

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