Paris Bookstores Struggle To Survive Pandemic Gibert Jeune, ... Then the Sorbonne and other schools began to open campuses away from the traditional student quarter in Paris' 5th arrondissement.

Students also frequent the Jewish quarter of the Marais, which spans the 3 rd and 4 th arrondissements, where many believe the best falafel in the city can be found.

Michel Carmona, a historian and geographer specializing in Paris, said that the cultural erosion of the Latin Quarter started in the 1980s and was intertwined with the gradual decline of student life.

With their bright yellow awnings and sagging iron shelves, the Gibert Jeune bookstores, which sell cheap secondhand books, have been a fixture of the Latin Quarter in Paris for over a century, a ...

Most of the students returned to the Latin Quarter and disrupted the tranquillity of the 12th arrondissement. Some students joined different crowds of people on the right bank. The law student M.