Quiz about the 14th Arrondissement (Paris)

How much do you know about the French capital's 14th Arrondissement?
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53rd quartier of Paris and of a larger district known as a hot spot for artists that stretches in to the 6th and 15th arrondissements
du Montparnasse
54th quartier of Paris
du Parc de Montsouris
55th quartier of Paris. It is the "little" part of an adjacent commune it was carved out of in 1860.
du Petit-Montrouge
56th quartier of Paris
de Plaisance
Name of the 14th. It derives from an astronomical facility used to watch the sky
Observatoire
These underground structures hold the remains of some six million people
Catacombs
This American author lived in the 14th between 1921 and 1928, writing for the Toronto Star
Ernest Hemingway
The same author's memoirs of his time in Paris were published posthumously under this title in 1964
A Moveable Feast
Café where Pablo Picasso, Vladimir Lenin, and Henry Miller gathered and which is mentioned in Édith Piaf's song "Paris"
Café du Dôme
These two existentialist lovers are buried in a cemetery named after the 53th quartier. He wrote "Being and Nothingness", she wrote "The Second Sex". Name either.
Jean-Paul Sartre | Simone de Beauvoir
It is often called "la Santé" and is the only remaining kind of this institution in Paris proper. The fraudster Stavisky, the vagabond-turned-writer Jean Genet and the bank robber Jacques Mesrine all spent some time here.
Prison
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