Hemingway in Paris ?
 

I would like to visit a couple of places mentioned in A Moveable Feast while I am in Paris. Has anyone ever done this? If so, what places would you recommend? Thanks!

Funny, my husband and I are reading that right now. We leave next Thurs for Paris. My husband has also read Jean Paul Satre for the same reason..just diving into what life in paris was like back then. We probably hunt down some of the cafes and certain addresses that are mentioned, but can't recommend anything specific just yet. I haven't talked to anyone else that does that...

I saw on the Paris Walks homepage that they have a guided tour of Hemmingway's Paris every Friday at 10.30, meeting at metro Cardinal Lemoine. It costs 10 euros/person, no reservations. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pariswalking/pwthome.htm.<BR>Sounds fun and affordable, I haven't yet been on one of their tours but I am planning on taking a couple when we go in November!

There's a paper back book whose title I can't recall--something like Walks in Hemingway's Paris. If someone doesn't come up with the name, I will respond telling you what it is after I get home from the University today. I have done some of the walks outlined in the book. Boots

Also reading Hemingway's Walks (also can't recall exact title); it's interesting and gives a lot of street addresses and maps for walks should you want to do it on your own.

Walks in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide for the Literary Traveler by Noel Riley Fitch. A good read. We are hoping to do one or two of the walks Thanksgiving week.

Brasserie Lipp, Cafe de Flore, and Aux Deux Magots on Blvd St-Germain are all places that Hemingway frequented in Paris during the 1920's. He supposedly caught pigeons in the Luxembourg Gardens to eat during his leaner days.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jinx Hoover

Take the metro to Cardinal Lemoine stop and walk up Cardinal Lemoine to I believe #74 which is the bldg he lived in during the early 20's on the top floor. The bldg has a plaque indicating his residence. From there you are a few steps from Place Contrescarpe and Rue Moufetard that are both prominent in his writings. <BR>This is all in the Latin Quarter. From there you can walk to Luxenbourg gardens and locate Gertrude Stein's house(s) he refers to.<BR>Enjoy

Karen, I put in that address but it came up in html??? Have a better address or what am I doing wrong?

The Paris Walks homepage is www.pariswalkingtours.com

A couple years ago we stayed at the Hotel des Grandes Ecole on rue Cardinal Lemoine. As I passed a house a few doors up I saw a plaque in French and slowly (my French is lousy) translated it. Finally I realized that it was "where we were so happy and so poor" -- the apartment that Hemingway and his first wife shared when they settled in Paris. Starting with that I reread A Moveable Feast and mentally plotted Hemingway's walks from the apartment to the Luxembourg Gardens where he first met Gertrude Stein, etc. The hotel is a great, reasonably priced place (lots of descriptions here) although you have to book well in advance. I tried to get a room at fairly short notice the following year, and they were sold out. The area isn't chic but it isn't the tough neighborhood that Hemingway describes. If you visit, be sure to stop at one of the cafes on the Place de Contrescarpe for people watching, then walk to the bottom of rue Mouffetarde, which has one of the oldest street markets in Paris.

I would recommend the Time Out Book of Paris walks, which has some great walks round Hemmingway's Paris, and also the Paris of the extensialists (Sartre et al), the Bohemian Paris of old Montmartre, and a whole lot of other stuff.

Sorry about the bum address, Dan. Thanks Christina for giving him the right one! Have fun on your trip! For more on this period of artist in Paris you could read Gertrude Stein's "Autobiography of Alice B Tolkas" in which she describes her salons with the great authors and artists of her day.

There is a paperback publishd some years ago about Paris cafes and their historical and literary significance - and this includes Hemingway, Sartre, the ex-pats of the 20s, etc. I am sorry, I just do not recall the title. May I also suggest you read The Sun Also Rises - it gives a layout of Paris you can still follow, almost 80 years later. Enjoy your time in that wonderful city!

Almost forgot. As Paris was celebrating it's liberation by the Allies in August, 1944, Hemingway (war correspondent) walked into the Ritz Hotel bar and ordered 70 martinis!! That was also the time when Ernie Pyle said that any GI who didn't get laid was to be pitied! What a time!<BR><BR>Regards, <BR><BR>Jinx Hoover

The book I am using is "A Guide to Hemingway's Paris" by John Leland. He sets up 3 walking tours and lists 82 locations mentioned in Hemingway's writting. It has lots of nice photos, as well.<BR><BR> Keith

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