Paris in the Jazz Age: Latin Quarter Tour

You'll meet your tour guide at the Place Jussieu to give you a brief introduction to the ancient history of the city when the Roman empire conquered the Celts and set up an outpost here. One of their most impressive buildings is hiding just around the corner: an enormous amphitheater that was only rediscovered in the 19th century. Your guide will take you inside for a look around then head into the medieval streets of the Latin Quarter. A place of higher learning since the Middle Ages, it takes its name from the university students who spoke Latin here as they hung out in the cafes, bars, and tiny apartments. You’ll see some of the Universities that still call the area home then check out the buildings where students rubbed shoulders in the following centuries with scientists, philosophers, and eventually, the expat writers of the Lost Generation, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. Leaving behind the genteel decay of the Latin Quarter, you’ll pause at the beautiful church of Saint Etienne du Mont and then finish at the Pantheon, the burial place of some of France’s greatest thinkers, from Voltaire to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.