Rue de L'école de Médecine - School of Medicine Street, Paris

Rue de L'École de Médecine – School of Medicine Street – is located in the Odéon and Monnaie districts of the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It meets at Rue Dupuytren and ends at the Boulevard Saint Germain. American Sylvia Beach established the Shakespeare and Company English-language bookstore at 8 Rue Dupuytren in 1919 before moving it to larger premises at 12 Rue de L’Odéon in 1922.

The area was once the site of two vineyards: Clos de Laas to the north and Clos Gibard to the south. At the end of the 12^th century, a chapel located in the vineyards was converted into the church of Saint-Côme-Saint-Damien, and in 1255 the brotherhood of surgeons was established in the church.

At the beginning of the French Revolution in 1790, the street took the name Rue de L'École de Médecine for the first time.

Today, the main long building at No. 12, formerly the College of Surgery, is the headquarters of the University of Paris-Cité, the Inter-University Library of Health, and the Museum of the History of Medicine.

It was at No. 5 that French actress Sarah Bernhardt was born in 1844. She died in 1923. A plaque was placed here on 25 October 1944 for the centenary of her birth.

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