Home to a number of famous cafés, such as Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore, the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area was the center of the existentialist movement, associated with Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is an area of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.