Visite guidée : La Nouvelle Athènes, écrin du romantisme parisien

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, as Paris was filled with enthusiasm for ancient Greece, the Nouvelle-Athènes neighborhood took shape between Rue Blanche, Rue Saint-Lazare, Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and Rue La Bruyère.

Behind its elegant buildings, it cultivates a discreet charm.

Very quickly, artists and writers settled there.

Painters, actors, and authors crossed paths with the famous lorettes, those young kept women who inspired Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème.

The neighborhood also charmed Georges Simenon, who set several of Inspector Maigret's investigations there.

Along the stroll, other voices resonate still—Émile Zola, Joseph Kessel, Louis Aragon. They reveal the singular soul of this preserved neighborhood, nestled in the heart of the 9th arrondissement.

To experience literature larger than life!