The Paris street called la rue Lecourbe runs for about a mile and a half through the 15th arrondissement in Paris. The 15th is the most populous arrondissement (district) of the city. Rue Lecourbe runs in a more or less straight line along what was a Roman road connecting Paris (called Lutèce back then) and the town of Sèvres. These are five photos of the top of the rue Lecourbe, near the tour Eiffel, the hôtel des Invalides, and the tour Montparnasse.
The Paris metro line at the top of the rue Lecourbe is called Sèvres-Lecourbe. It's an above-ground section of metro.
I've stayed at the Hôtel Lecourbe at least once in my life.
This is the entrance to the Sèvres-Lecourbe metro station.
CHM and I have had many dinners in the Japanese restaurant you can see in the lower part of this photo,
slightly right of center. If you look closely, you can read the word Japonais on the restaurant's blue awning.
On the same side of the street, there's a fancy Lenôtre grocery shop that sells gourmet pastries and other fine foods.
Right across the street from Lenôtre there's a Monoprix department store that includes a big supermarket.
It's always fun to shop there and see what kinds of products I can find that I don't find easily in our Saint-Aignan stores.
It must be fun for you re-visit through photos :)
ReplyDeleteMonoprix...one of my favorite places to browse
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great neighborhood. I’ve rented apartments in the 15th on three or four trips and love this less touristy area. Ken or chm, have you been to the Musee Antoin Bourdelle which is between the metro Sevres Lecourbe and tour Montparnasse? It’s one of my favorite Paris museums. Thank you, Ken for these great memories!
ReplyDeleteYes, BettyAnn, I've been to the Antoine Bourdelle's museum and enjoyed it. It is in walking distance from my place which is within the block on the right in the first photo.
DeleteThat's my neighborhood!
ReplyDeleteLenôtre is especially renowned for his chocolates?
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a great area. Those pâté en croûte caught my eye at Lenôtre. Antoine Bourdelle....I hadn't heard of him. Thanks everyone for the heads up. Art Nouveau going into Art Moderne?
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a famous restaurant in New York named Lutèce. Now I know the origin of the name.
I remember Monoprix from the 60s- I love them still.
ReplyDeleteI remember Lutèce. It was a favorite of the Ladies Who Lunch.
ReplyDeleteThese mini-tours of various rues and neighborhoodsa are so informative that I wish I had a trip to Paris queued up sometime soon. But, alas . . .
Lutèce, the NY restaurant, right?
DeleteOh, sorry, I was responding to the comment from Diogenes, above. There was also a fancy-ladies' NYC restaurant called La Grenouille, but that may be gone, too.
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