On Rue Mouffetard, Café TournBride occupies one of the liveliest stretches of the Left Bank, where terraces have been part of daily Paris life for generations. The street itself is among the oldest in the city, following the line of an ancient Roman road that once led south from Lutetia.
The café’s unusual name comes from the old French tournebride, meaning an inn located near a castle, which accommodated the servants and horses of people invited by the lords of the castle. It is the sort of medieval street name that survived into modern Paris long after the original reason for it had faded away.
“A Paris terrace is never just somewhere to sit, it’s a way of observing the city at its own pace.”
Part of the “On the Terraces of Paris” series
Each Thursday we take a seat on one of Paris’s terraces, those open-air rooms where the city’s everyday life unfolds in full view.
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