Quiz about the 5th Arrondissement (Paris)

17th quartier of Paris

18th quartier of Paris named after a botanical garden which hosts the National Museum of Natural History

19th quartier of Paris

20th quartier of Paris, named after a famous university

Historic quarter that was a residence of students from mentioned university and later, intellectuals and artists

The ruins of a Roman amphitheatre reach back to the 1st century, when Paris was still called this

Mausoleum for distinguished French citizens inspired by a building with the same name in Rome. It also gives the 5th its name.

This medieval scholar of mentioned university is today perhaps best known for his romance with the nun Héloïse

Museum centered around Roman thermes and a medieval abbey

Street that dates back to antiquity. Its name supposedly dervies from "mouffle"/"mouffette", old French words for "stench", "stink".

The 1834 novel "Le Père Goriot" (or Father Goriot) takes place in a shabby street in the 19th quartier. Who wrote it?

Unlike many other arrondissements, the 5th remained largely untouched by this baron's massive urban modernization projects in the 1860s.

English-language bookstore named after a famed English playwright. It was a place to go for beatniks and continues the name of a bookstore that operated close by 1919-1944.

It is May. Leftist students fight the police in the streets and erect barricades. A general strike takes place and President De Gaulle flees the country. Which year are we talking about?

This film director ("The 400 Blows", "Jules et Jim") spent much of his time at the movie theater Le Champo and called it his "headquarters"