The Carre Rive Gauche, bounded by the quai Voltaire, the boulevard St-Germain, and the rues du Bac and des Sts-Pares, is something of a museum of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, pre-Columbian, African, and Polynesian art, as well as Louis XV, Second Empire, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.
While some similarities are shared between the art forms of the mentioned cultures, they are primarily distinct.