Rue de Tournon

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".

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 Rue Saint-Sulpice is a street in Paris, located in the 6th arrondissement.

The fontaine Palatine is a fountain in Paris located at 12 rue Garancière, in the 6th arrondissement, near the Luxembourg Palace and Luxembourg Garden.

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.

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.

Café Voltaire, named after the writer and philosopher Voltaire, was a former café and restaurant located on Place de l'Odeon in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The café was open from the early 19th century until the middle of the 20th century. It served as a gathering place for artists and students. The site is currently the headquarters of the literature department of the publishing house Groupe Flammarion (Flammarion Editions).

The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced [palɛ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]) is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835–1856) by Alphonse de Gisors. The palace has been the seat of the upper houses of the various French national legislatures (excepting only the unicameral National Assembly of the Second Republic) since the establishment of the Sénat conservateur during the Consulate; as such, it has been home to the Senate of the Fifth Republic since its establishment in 1958.Immediately west of the palace on the Rue de Vaugirard is the Petit Luxembourg, now the residence of the Senate President; and slightly further west, the Musée du Luxembourg, in the former orangery. On the south side of the palace, the formal Luxembourg Garden presents a 25-hectare (62-acre) green parterre of gravel and lawn populated with statues and large basins of water where children sail model boats.

The Senate (French: Sénat, [seˈna]) is the upper house of the French Parliament, which, along with the National Assembly—the lower chamber—constitutes the legislature of France. It is made up of 348 senators (sénateurs and sénatrices) elected by part of the country's local councillors (in indirect elections), as well as by representatives of French citizens living abroad. Senators have six-year terms, with half of the seats up for election every three years. The Senate enjoys less prominence than the first, or lower house, the National Assembly, which is elected on direct universal ballot and upon the majority of which the Government has to rely: in case of disagreement, the Assembly can in many cases have the last word, although the Senate keeps a role in some key procedures such as constitutional amendments and, most importantly, legislation about itself. Bicameralism was first introduced in France in 1795; as in many countries, it assigned the second chamber with the role of moderating the first, although for a long time as an ally of the executive. The present selection mode of the Senate dates back to the start of the Third Republic, when it was turned into what Léon Gambetta famously called a "grand council of the communes of France". Over time, it developed a sense of independence as a "guardian of the institutions" and "guardian of liberties", favoured by the fact that senators are on average older than members of the National Assembly, and join the house in the last part of their career. Debates in the Senate tend to be less tense and generally receive less media coverage. As a result of its election relying on what is often summed up as rural mayors, it has had a right-wing majority since 1958, with only a three-year exception in 2011–2014. The left has historically opposed the very existence of a second chamber, while the right defends it, and controversies over the Senate's role are revived from time to time. The common phrase "a Senator’s pace" (un train de sénateur) mocks the upper house's perceived slow rhythm and readiness to let new legislation die. The president of the Senate is to step in as Acting President of France in case of an incapacitation or a vacancy, which last happened in 1974. The current officeholder is Gérard Larcher. The Senate is housed inside the Luxembourg Palace in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It is guarded by Republican Guards. In front of the building lies the Senate's garden, the Jardin du Luxembourg, open to the public.

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.

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.