Rive Gauche'(French pronunciation:[ʁivɡoʃ];Left Bank) is the southern bank of the riverSeineinParis.Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two parts. When facing downstream, the southern bank is to the left, whereas the northern bank (orRive Droite) is to the right.
The Rive Gauche is associated with artists, writers and philosophers, includingColette,Margaret Anderson,Djuna Barnes,Natalie Barney,Sylvia Beach,Erik Satie,Kay Boyle,Bryher,Caresse Crosby,Nancy Cunard,H.D.,Janet Flanner,Jane Heap,Maria Jolas,Mina Loy,Henry Miller,Adrienne Monnier,Anaïs Nin,Jean Rhys,Gertrude Stein,Alice B. Toklas,Renee Vivien,Edith Wharton[1]Pablo Picasso,Arthur Rimbaud,Paul Verlaine,Henri Matisse,Jean-Paul Sartre,Ernest Hemingway,F. Scott Fitzgerald,James Baldwin,[2]and dozens of members of the great artistic community atMontparnasse.[3]
The phrase implies a sense ofbohemianism,countercultureandcreativity.[4]Some of its famous streets are theBoulevard Saint-Germain,Boulevard Saint-Michel,theRue de Vaugirard,Rue Bonaparte,and others.
TheLatin Quarteris situated on the Rive Gauche, within the5thand6tharrondissements in the vicinity of theUniversity of Paris.[5]In the 12th century, the philosopherPierre Abélardhelped create the neighborhood when, due to his controversial teaching, he was pressured into relocating from the prestigiousÎle de la Citéto a less conspicuous residence. As he and his followers populated the Left Bank, it became famous for the prevalence of scholarlyLatinspoken there.[6]The area's origin story formed the basis of the saying, "Paris 'learned to think' on the Left Bank".[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^Shari Benstock,Women of the Left Bank,1986
- ^Washington, Ellery."James Baldwins's Paris".The New York Times.Retrieved29 July2015.
- ^Mills, Ian."Hemingway's Paris – Part 2".Discover France.Retrieved28 February2013.
- ^Noel, Josh."Left Bank vs. Right: A tale of two cities".Chicago Tribune.Archived fromthe originalon 14 March 2013.Retrieved28 February2013.
- ^"Paris | Definition, Points of Interest, Facts, & History – The Invalides".Encyclopedia Britannica.Retrieved2018-01-26.
- ^abHorne, Alistair(2004).La Belle France.USA: Vintage. p. 18.ISBN9781400034871.
Further reading
edit- Baxter, John.Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire(2017)
- Benstock, Shari.Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900–1940 (1986)
- Lottman, Herbert R.The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War(1982)
- Muir, Kate.Left Bank(2006)
- Poirier, Agnes.Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–50(2018)
- Webster, Paul.Saint-Germain-des-Pres(1984)
- Weiss, Andrea.Paris Was a Woman: Portraits of the Left Bank(2013)
External links
edit
- "Left Bank Paris'atParis Digest
 | This Paris geographical article is astub.You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |