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A Walk Around Rue Mouffetard & Place de la Contrescarpe, Paris

Place de la Contrescarpe is a road located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The Place de la Contrescarpe is located on Rue Mouffetard, at the outlet of Lacépède and Cardinal-Lemoine streets; it is a focal point of the 5th arrondissement, as it is at the centre of the four administrative districts that are Saint-Victor, Jardin-des-Plantes, Val-de-Grâce and Sorbonne. The square is about forty yards in diameter and has in its centre a median occupied in part by a public fountain. Now a tourist destination, it has many cafes, most of them recent. Some facades, however, retain the memory of an earlier period. The old café shop Au Nègre Joyeux was located on the west side of the square — only the sign remains, which is destined to disappear. It owes its name to the vicinity of the old Rue de la Contrescarpe-Saint-Marcel, currently divided between Blainville Street and Cardinal Lemoine Street, and refers to the counterscarp, the outer slope of the ditch in front of Philippe Auguste's compound. Opened in 1852, it was formed by the removal of an island of dwellings between the streets of Cardinal-Lemoine, Lacepède and Mouffetard. This islet would be located today, adjacent to the café Les Arts, that is to say at the level of the eastern part of the square.