Note 5 — I

faubourg Saint-Germain; the faubourg Saint-Germain is that part of Paris lying on the left bank of the Seine directly opposite the Tuileries gardens, and extending from the rue de Seine to the Chambre des Députés. During the nineteenth century it was the chief residence section of the old French aristocracy, though at present many of the younger members are migrating to the more modern quarter about the Arc de Triomphe and the Parc Monceau. The term "faubourg Saint-Germain" is frequently used for aristocratic French society itself, and has even been extended to include this society wherever found. The word faubourg originally signified "village," or "suburb," then, as the outlying districts were absorbed by the growing city, it came to mean simply a section or quarter of the city itself.