Left Bank

American  

noun

1. a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.

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Left Bank British  

noun

1. a district of Paris, on the S bank of the River Seine; frequented by artists, students, etc

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Left Bank Cultural  

1. Area in Paris on the left (south) bank of the Seine River.

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The Left Bank is a center of artistic and student life.

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Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris's Left Bank for more than 50 years, papers under the arm and on his lips the latest headline.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

Models marched across a cobblestone catwalk in a courtyard of the Hotel de la Monnaie on the Left Bank in Paris wearing white, cotton sneakers or simple ballerina slippers that toned down dressier looks.

From Reuters ● Jun. 23, 2023

She was dining with her closest friend, Geneviève Aliquot, and an actor, Alain Cuny, in Le Catalan, a small restaurant on the rue des Grands-Augustins, near Picasso’s Left Bank studio.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

That was the year she met Picasso, by chance, when she and a friend visited a restaurant on the Left Bank, amid a gathering that included his then-companion, Dora Maar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Despite the poverty, Sophiatown had a special character; for Africans, it was the Left Bank in Paris, Greenwich Village in New York, the home of writers, artists, doctors, and lawyers.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela