Rue Bonaparte is a street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It spans the Quai Voltaire/Quai Malaquais to the Jardin du Luxembourg, crossing the Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the place Saint-Sulpice and has housed many of France's most famous names and institutions as well as other well-known figures from abroad. The street runs through the heart of the fashionable Left Bank and is characterised by a number of 'hôtels particuliers' and elegant apartment buildings as well as being bounded by the river at one end and the park at the other. With fifteen buildings or monuments classified as Monument Historique, it has more such listed sites than any other street in the 6th arrondissement.
View starting at no. 88 Rue Bonaparte from the Rue de Vaugirard
Street plaque also showing former name
Rue Bonaparte – view of the place Saint-Germain-des-Prés looking towards the rue Jacob.
Rue Bonaparte – looking towards the place Saint-Sulpice.
6th arrondissement of Paris
The 6th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as le sixième.
Terrace of café Les Deux Magots, opened in 1885 on Boulevard Saint-Germain
The Luxembourg Palace on the Rue de Vaugirard houses the Senate.
Palace Hôtel Lutetia
Corner between Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue Saint-Jacques