Saint-Séverin
Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
We turn right into Boulevard Saint-Germain, go past some good restaurants, suitable for lunch, including Dodin-Bouffant at Place Maubert, where we turn right on Rue Maitre Albert to the river bank and turn left. Immediately we leave the bank by Rue des Grands Degrés and continue along Rue de la Bücherie to Square Réne-Viviane and see Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre behind the garden.
The oldest unspoiled church in Paris, built 1170-1220 in Early Gothic, with no transepts. Unfortunately it has been converted into a Greek-Orthodox church, making it impossible for laymen to the fairest part, the chancel.
Saint-Séverin
Behind Saint-Julien we see another church, Saint-Séverin.
One of the most beautiful examples of Late Flamboyant Gothic in Paris. The building was started in the first half of the 13th C. and not finished until 1530. The church is peculiar in being short and wide. It has two ambulatories instead of the usual one. Therefore, its interior is like a forest of columns.
Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
Outside the church there is a garden with shady trees and arcades, a good resting place before the final spurt of this walk.
Rue de la Huchette
From the back of Saint-Séverin we walk north along Rue Saint-Jacques and then turn left into Rue de la Huchette.
A lively pedestrian street, filling up with Greek and Middle-Eastern eateries. Some narrow streets lead off the street. These are the ancient alleys of the oldest part of the Left bank.
We finally end this walk at the other side of Rue de la Huchette where it meets Place Saint-Michel, the entrance to the Left bank. Many pavement cafés are there to invigorate the limbs.
