Les Deux Magots Cafe, a Saint-Germain-des-Prés Latin Quarter cafe where writers like Hemingway, painters like Picasso and philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre liked to hang out
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Arriving back in Paris in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés cafe district
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Les Deux Magots opened in 1887, taking its name from the play Les Deux Magots de la Chine (Two Figurines from China)
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Église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, was first founded in 558 as St. Vincent's church, but after plundering and destruction by the Normans, the current structure was begun 1014 and rededicated in 1163
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Inside Saint-Germain-des-Prés
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A statue in Saint-Germain-des-Prés
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Tomb of William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, from 1611
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Tomb of Lord James Douglas, a Scottish soldier and son of William, and a military advisor to King Louis XIII, from 1645
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Sculptured painting in the choir area
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Stained glass about the choir of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
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Tomb of Rene Descartes, mathematician, scholar, philosopher
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Frescoes in Saint-Germain-des-Prés
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