Invisible Paris: The Story of the Oldest Tree in Paris

Invisible Paris: The Story of the Oldest Tree in Paris

You have only part of the story.
Your tree is in a small park (Square Viviani) that is next to a church; Saint Julien le Pauvre, one if not the oldest church in Paris.
Across the Seine, in the north east corner behind Notre Dame, which was the original learning centre of Paris on the Ile de La Cité, and it was Peter Abelard, the famous and notorious theologian philosopher, who broke with established doctrine at the beginning of the twelfth century and led a massive student exodus to Saint Junien Le Pauvre on the left bank. Three thousand students went along with him, thereby creating what became known as the Latin Quarter, or the quarter of Latin- speaking clerics. Saint Julien Le Pauvre became the official seat of the newly charted University of Paris. Thus the origin of "Le quartier Latin".

There is even more to say about the area and the church. The area was also the seat of the "Ecole de Médecine".