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Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a station on line 4 of the Paris Métro, serving the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area in the heart of the Left Bank in the 6th arrondissement.
The station was opened on 9 January 1910 as part of the connecting section of the line under the Seine between Châtelet and Raspail. It is named after the Place Saint-Germain and the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, dedicated on 23 December 558 by the son of Clovis, Childebert I (ruled 511–558), at the request of St. Germain, Bishop of Paris. Childebert died the same day and was buried in it. More than a thousand years later the remains of the philosopher René Descartes were also buried in it. The expression "des-Prés" refers to the Prés aux Clercs ("fields of the scholars") used for the erection of buildings to house the University of Paris.
Nearby are the Left Bank, the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots (café).
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the on the west, between the and on the east, and the on the south. Residents of the quarter are known as .
The quarter has several famous cafés, including Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore, le Procope, and the Brasserie Lipp, and a large number of bookstores and publishing houses. In the 1940s and 1950s, it was the centre of the existentialist movement (associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir). It is also home to the École des Beaux-Arts, the famed school of fine arts, and the Musée national Eugène Delacroix, in the former apartment and studio of painter Eugène Delacroix.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés may refer to:
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés, an area of Paris, located around the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is the name of several communes in France:
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Dordogne, in the Dordogne département
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Loiret, in the Loiret département
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Maine-et-Loire, in the Maine-et-Loire département
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Tarn, in the Tarn département
Saint-Germain-des-Prés Café is also the name of a series of nu jazz compilation albums.