Notre Dame Batobus scheduled Stop

 

Rue de la Boucherie or "Lumber Street", is a reminder that the firewood used to heat Paris was once unloaded there. Today, this lively neighbourhood between the Sorbonne and the Seine, gets a little less "heated up" than it did during the student uprising in May, 1968, but the Latin Quarter, as it is commonly called, attracts students from all over the world, speaking all languages, except Latin, once spoken by professors and students, and which gave the quarter its name. By crossing the bridge onto the City Island, put us in the heart of Paris, since it was here, on the Ile de la Cité, that Paris was born. Lutèce, Paris' original name, is Celtic for "residence in the middle of the water". The island was home to French kings until the fourteenth century. They built two Gothic jewels, Notre-Dame and Sainte-Chapelle, in addition to their palace (now the Palace of Justice), a hospital (Hôtel-Dieu), and a barracks, which is now the Prefecture de Police.