Place de l'Odéon

The Place de l'Odéon forms a perfect, truncated circle defined by the rigid, neoclassical columns of the Théâtre de l'Odéon at its northern end. Designed in the seventeen seventies, this square replaced the former garden of the Hôtel de Condé. During the French Revolution, the theater became a political battleground, famously hosting performances that incited riots between royalists and republicans. It remains a space where the architecture dictates the movement of the street, forcing every carriage and pedestrian to curve around its center.