To choose your favorite Paris, you actually need to experience it. You now know a few things about the Right Bank and the Left Bank of Paris. With this in mind, my advice would be: go to the Left Bank if you want to keep up the melancholy of the times when intellectual people were the most popular ones, but do not stay for too long as you might miss a chance to spend more time on the Right Bank in order to see the living Paris of today! Place de la Bastille on the Right Bank at night Place de la Bastille on the Right Bank: a place of popular demonstrations
We used to consider the Left Bank as the place of political contests, but now the more mobilized Parisians live in the north-east of Paris. As a young person, you can not have fun in Saint Germain des Prés, and you have to go near Bastille, Châtelet or Oberkampf areas to find the cheapest and more lively bars. The real-estate is higher in the west of Paris, and it makes no difference between the left and the right bank. The economical differences between the Left Bank and the Right Bank are more and more difficult to simplify. I enjoy having philosophical discussions with my friends of the prestigious Lycée Henri IV on the Contrescarpe Square, in the Mouffetard street, and I can say that I do not like the crowd on the Champs Elysées so much.īut can we really say that the Left Bank has more soul than the Right Bank? I don’t think so.
Considering my habits, I must say that I like to go to the Garden of Luxembourg to read the second-hand books I have found in small libraries of the Latin Quarter, and I am not fond of the big and flashy shops of the Haussmann avenues. The right-bankers introduce themselves as more trendy and sophisticated than the “spiritual” people of the Left Bank. Latin Quarter, on the Left Bank of Paris What about nowadays?Īnd what about the differences today? In my opinion, some things of this cliché is still true. Historically, the Right Bank is the bank of power (the French president lives on the Champs Elysées), the bank of luxury ( Place Vendôme and Rue de la Paix), and of business (the covered market of Les Halles, the surroundings of the Garnier Opera House), whereas the Left Bank is the bank of students, of intellectuals ( La Sorbonne, le Panthéon, Saint Germain des Prés during the times of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir), and of artists ( Montparnasse at the beginning of the twentieth century). 2.The contrast between the two banks used to be easier to sum up fifty years ago.
2) relating to a left wing person or group. Left - ► ADJECTIVE 1) on, towards, or relating to the side of a human body or of a thing which is to the west when the person or thing is facing north. a) designating or of that side of one s body which is toward the west when one faces north, the side of the less used hand in most people b) designating… … English World dictionary 2) on the left side of something the bottom left corner of the screen We took a left turn when we should have… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English Left*/*/*/ - adj I 1) on the side of your body that is opposite to the right Ant: right He wore a wedding ring on his left hand.
Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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