ODEON

 

We often arrange to meet under the Statue of Danton to go to the cinema, to the theater or to have a drink. Nearby, the Théâtre de l’Odéon and the Cour du Commerce Saint-André are witnesses of the Age of the Enlightenment, which saw the birth of this neighborhood. During summer the Theater square is almost Romanian with its café, surrounded by olive trees, vines and rosebays. Our favorite spot !

 

 

But our garden is somewhere else … in the Cour de Rohan. Henri II built several buildings for his mistress Diane de Poitiers here. Later, the painter Balthus had his studio there. It is our patch of countryside in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.