The intellectual awakening brought about by the lectures of this most learned and accomplished man of his time produced an epoch.

He spoke to his disciples in the open air, as no building could hold the thousands who hung upon his lips.

This movement became localized; a faubourg of students was created with their multiform activities.

It became a quarter by itself--a noisy, turbulent, agitated quarter--where the only luxury enjoyed was an expanding thought, and where Latin was the spoken language.

And so it happened that the _Quartier Latin_ came into existence.
But while the place remains, the man quickly passed off the scene.