The Samuel Paty Square is a green space located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris next to the Sorbonne and the Musée de Cluny.
Location
editThe garden is located at the address 2, Place Paul-Painlevé, in front of the Sorbonne, in the heart of the historic quarter of the Latin Quarter, Paris.
This site is serviced by the neighbouring Cluny–La Sorbonne Métro station on Line 10.
Origin of the name
editThe garden takes its name after French teacher Samuel Paty, assassinated in a terrorist attack on 16 October 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb of Paris. Paty was killed and beheaded by an Islamist.[1]
Description
editThis park is a symbolic place in the middle of the historic Parisian neighborough of schools and universities.[2]
History
editThe public garden was created in 1900 and originally called Square de la Sorbonne. It was renamed at the first anniversary of Paty's assassination.[3][4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "France pays tribute to teacher Samuel Paty on first anniversary of his death", RFI, 16 October 2021.
- ^ "‘The violence shook me profoundly’: Teachers, students remember Samuel Paty’s murder', France 24, 15 October 2021.
- ^ "French PM pays tribute to slain teacher Samuel Paty on anniversary of his death", France 24, 16 October 2021.
- ^ "France pays tribute to murdered schoolteacher Samuel Paty", The Local, 16 October 2021.
