The Café Musain
Historical Location: Place Saint-Michel
Modern Location: Place Edmond Rostand
Metro stop: Luxembourg
Notes: Hugo tells us the Café Musain was on the Place Saint-Michel, but the spot that bears that name nowadays was called the Place du Pont-Saint-Michel back in the 1830s and the Place Saint-Michel itself was by the Jardin du Luxembourg. It's now called the Place Edmond Rostand. Exhaustive and painstaking research has pinpointed its location as the spot in the photo currently occupied by... a McDonald's. How the mighty have fallen.
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