Cours Simon

Cours Simon, or cours d'art dramatique René-Simon is one of the oldest schools for theatre actors in . It was founded in 1925 and since 1983 has been based at 14, rue la Vacquerie, in Paris's .
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  • Type: College
  • Description: French drama class
  • Also known as: “Cours d’art dramatique René-Simon”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Père Lachaise Cemetery and Ruins of Bastille.

Photo: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The 20th arrondissement of lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the , though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas. is situated 730 metres northeast of Cours Simon.

Castle
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The Bastille was a medieval fortress in , known as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. is situated 1¼ km southwest of Cours Simon.

Park
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
is a park, which is situated 150 metres north of Cours Simon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 11th arrondissement and Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

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The is home to two quite different but equally blossoming centres of Parisian nightlife. The streets just northwest of Place de la Bastille are full of little bars which attract a mix of young suburban Parisians, expats, and foreigners.

Suburb
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The was one of the traditional suburbs of , France. It grew up to the east of the around the abbey of , and ran along the Rue du .

Suburb
The is an area of the 20th arrondissement of named after a former municipality in the area, which was merged into the city of Paris in 1860 by Napoleon III and split between , the Père-Lachaise quarter and Saint-Fargeau quarter.

Cours Simon

Latitude
48.85833° or 48° 51′ 30″ north
Longitude
2.38515° or 2° 23′ 7″ east
Levels
2
Open location code
8FW4V95P+83
Open­Street­Map ID
way 63648233
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­college
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q1137719
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Cours Simon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مدرسة رينيه سيمون للفنون الدرامية”
  • Armenian: “Ռենե Սիմոնի դրամատիկական կուրսեր”
  • Belarusian: “курсы Сімона”
  • Belarusian: “Курсы Сымона”
  • Catalan: “Cours Simon”
  • Chinese: “塞道賽門戲劇學校”
  • Chinese: “赛道西蒙戏剧学校”
  • Czech: “Simonův kurz”
  • Esperanto: “Cours Simon”
  • French: “Cours d’art dramatique René-Simon”
  • French: “Cours René-Simon”
  • French: “Cours Simon”
  • German: “Cours Simon”
  • Iloko: “Cours Simon”
  • Irish: “Cours Simon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cours Simon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cours Simon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cours Simon”
  • Portuguese: “Cours Simoni”
  • Romanian: “Cours Simon”
  • Russian: “Курсы Симона”
  • Slovenian: “Cours Simon”
  • Spanish: “Cours Simon”
  • Swedish: “Cours Simon”
  • Ukrainian: “Курси Симона”
  • Welsh: “Cours Simon”
  • Western Armenian: “‘Cours Simon’ խաղարկութեան դասեր”

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