Rue de l'Odéon

Rue de l'Odéon

Rue de l'Odéon, looking towards the Place de l'Odéon
Length	176 m (577 ft)
Width	13 m (43 ft)
Arrondissement	6th
Quarter	Odéon
From	16, carrefour de l'Odéon
To	12, place de l'Odéon
Construction
Completion	1780
Denomination	Rue du Théâtre-Français

Coordinates: 48°51′3.1″N 2°20′19.3″E / 48.850861°N 2.338694°E / 48.850861; 2.338694

The rue de l'Odéon is a street in the Odéon quarter of the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the Left Bank. Because of the presence of two bohemian bookstores, run respectively by Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and the coterie of emergent Anglophone writers surrounding them, James Joyce nicknamed it "Stratford-on-Odéon". Monnier and Beach thought of it as Odéonia.

This street was constructed from 1780 onwards following letters patent of 10 August 1779 to establish the Théâtre-Français du faubourg Saint-Germain (now the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe).

The nearest metro station is Odéon on Lines 4 and 10. It is served by RATP buses, numbers 84, 87 and 89.