Alexandre Dumas's novel "The Three Musketeers" mentions the street of the Gravediggers - nowadays of Rue Servandoni, which is now in the heart of Paris. Also in the novel are the quay of Iron Loma, later renamed the Quai de la Megisserie, Rue du Vieux Colombier, facing the main facade of the Saint-Sulpice church, and Rue Ferou.

In the "Queen Margot" of the same Dumas, the names of the streets of Petit-Muse and Saint-Antoine slip, and the quay d'Orfevre is known to many according to the novels of Georges Simenon. In addition to the streets in the novels, the bridges of Paris are also mentioned, Patrick Zuskind "Perfume"