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Place de l'Odéon (Odeon Square) is a semicircular plaza located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.

The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon) 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 of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden and the Luxembourg Palace, which houses the Senate.

Rue Monsieur-le-Prince is a street of Paris, located in the 6th arrondissement.

The rue de l'Odéon is a street in the Odéon quarter of the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the Left Bank. Because of the presence of two bohemian bookstores, run respectively by Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and the coterie of emergent Anglophone writers surrounding them, James Joyce nicknamed it "Stratford-on-Odéon". Monnier and Beach thought of it as Odéonia.

The Crémerie-Restaurant Polidor is a historic restaurant in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Its predecessor was founded in 1845, and it has had its present name since the beginning of the 20th century. The interior of the restaurant is basically unchanged for over 100 years, and the style of cooking remains that of the late 19th century. The Polidor is located at 41, rue Monsieur-le-Prince in the Odéon area, near the Jardin du Luxembourg. Its name derives from the cream desserts it served in former decades. Most diners sit at long, shared tables, with communal saltcellars and pots of mustard. Its bathroom, unchanged for decades, has been described as "legendary."In addition to its decor and cuisine, the Polidor is best known for its illustrious clientele. It is said to have been a favourite of André Gide's, as well as hosting James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Antonin Artaud, Paul Valéry, Boris Vian, Julio Cortázar, Jack Kerouac, and Henry Miller. It is also known for being the meeting place of the Collège de ’Pataphysique, and its principals, French writers Luc Étienne and Raymond Queneau. The Polidor remains a popular restaurant on the Left Bank, particularly among students at the nearby University of Paris (Sorbonne) and Collège de France. In 2011, it featured in the film Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen. In 2017, it was the setting for the music video for "Desencuentro", a song by Puerto Rican singer Residente. The video features Charlotte Le Bon and Édgar Ramírez.In the Lee Child novel The Enemy, the protagonist Jack Reacher has dinner with his brother Joe and their French mother Josephine at Polidor. Polidor is a famous old restaurant. It makes you feel like all kinds of people have eaten there. Gourmets, spies, painters, fugitives, cops, robbers.

The Maison d'Auguste Comte, also known as the Musée Auguste Comte, is a private writer's house museum and archive dedicated to positivist philosopher Auguste Comte (1798–1857). It is maintained by the Association internationale Auguste Comte, located in the 6th arrondissement at 10, rue Monsieur-le-Prince, Paris, France, and open Wednesday afternoons, with a guided tour at 3:30 p.m.; an admission fee is required. The closest Paris Métro station is Odéon. Comte lived on the 2nd floor of 10, rue Monsieur le Prince from 1841 to his death in 1857, where he wrote the four volumes of Système de politique positive (1851–1854), his last treatise of positivist philosophy. The apartment has subsequently been restored and reconstructed as it was at the philosopher's death. It consists of five main rooms (dining room, living room, study, classroom, bedroom) with vestibule, and contains Comte's writing desk, portraits of Clotilde de Vaux and various disciples, personal effects, and handwritten letters, as well as a library of positivist writings that contains about 600 books in French, including first editions of his works, 250 books in other languages, a thousand brochures, and four collections of periodicals.

The Salle du Bel-Air or Salle du Jeu de Paume de Béquet (Hall of the Béquet Tennis Court), also spelled Becquet, was a 1672 theatre located in Paris, France. Originally an indoor tennis court (jeu de paume) it was converted by the Italian designer Carlo Vigarani into a theatre which was used by Jean-Baptiste Lully's Paris Opera from 15 November 1672 to 1 February 1673. It was located in the Rue de Vaugirard, just west of the city moat (fossé) and the Rue des Fossés Monsieur-le-Prince (now the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince). Today the site of the former theatre extends into the Rue de Médicis, just south of no. 15 (or 13 bis) Rue de Vaugirard.

The Foyot bombing was a bomb attack carried out on 4 April 1894, in Paris against the Foyot restaurant, located at 33 rue de Tournon, fifty meters from the French Senate. This attack, which took place during the Ère des attentats (1892-1894), injured four people, including the anarchists Laurent Tailhade and Julia Miahle, when a bomb hidden in a flower pot exploded. It followed the Madeleine bombing. The identity of the perpetrator and the motive for this attack remain unknown, as the police at the time favored the idea of an anarchist attack possibly committed by Félix Fénéon, Louis Matha, or Paul Delesalle targeting a location associated with the French Senate, without real success. A crime of passion aimed at Tailhade was also suggested, although such a hypothesis seems very unlikely. According to Philippe Oriol, the most probable hypotheses are that it was either a police conspiracy by the French authorities against Tailhade aimed at legitimizing anti-anarchist repression or an attack launched by the Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, active in terrorism in Paris at that time and seeking to provoke unrest in France.

The Restaurant Foyot was a Parisian restaurant located at 33, rue de Tournon. It closed in 1937, after 169 years of operation. It acquired its name when Nicolas Foyot, the personal chef of King Louis-Philippe, bought the restaurant after the Revolution of 1848. In 1891, he was succeeded by Léopold Mourier, a great figure in French cuisine, who created many of the food items bearing the name of the restaurant, such as pigeon Foyot, côte de veau Foyot, and the Béarnaise sauce still sometimes referred to as Foyot sauce. It was located across from the Senate and the Odéon Theater. Like many Parisian fine-dining restaurants, the Restaurant Foyot prepared and served zoo animals from the Jardin des plantes during the Siege of Paris (1870-71). According to one anecdote, the restaurant had previously mounted a publicity stunt involving displaying live bears and pretending to serve bear meat. The hôtel Foyot, located above the restaurant, rented rooms to many of the leading intellectuals and artists of the time, including George Santayana, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Parker, and Rainer Maria Rilke. The restaurant is perhaps best known today for the bombing that took place there in 1894. During World War I, the restaurant was requisitioned by the American military, and General Pershing was given a private dining room there. An English-language Paris restaurant guide from 1921 says: "Of such a renowned house as Foyot's, one need say but little [...] Established over a century, it has, for scores of years, maintained its rank among the best restaurants of the capital. Good cuisine and attendance; remarkable cellar." In 1931, the New Yorker referred to a new restaurant in Midtown Manhattan as "A Foyot's in the Fifties". On its closing, the New York Times eulogized the Restaurant Foyot as a "gourmets' temple which for decades has been regarded as a national institution".

Sorbonne University (French: Sorbonne Université) is a research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as part of the medieval University of Paris. The latter was then divided into 13 universities in 1970 (of which Paris-Saclay University being ranked first in France and 13th in the world), and all holding the same legacy of the dissolved University of Paris. Sorbonne University is now one of the most prestigious universities in Europe and the world; as of 2021, its alumni and professors have won 33 Nobel Prizes, six Fields Medals, and one Turing Award.

The Rue de Tournon is a street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. To the south, it offers a view of the Senate façade. At its northern end, it continues into the Rue de Seine, which leads to the Seine River. The street is located near the Jardin du Luxembourg.

Odéon (French: [ɔdeɔ̃] (listen)) is a station on Line 4 and Line 10 of the Paris Métro. It is located in the 6th arrondissement, on the Rive Gauche. In 2013, the station was used by 6,156,948 passengers, making it the 58th busiest out of 302.