Hi!!

I'm looking to plan - or take - a literary tour of Paris next weekend. The literary tour I'm looking for is one based on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein - those guys My husband loves that era of writing and I'm taking him to Paris for a surprise weekend. Does anyone have recommendations for either some great stops, OR a private guide that could help arrange this?

Thanks!

shakespeareandcompany.com

the hub for all this

parisvoice.com current info

Watch the new Woody Allen film featuring Owen Wilson

"Midnight in Paris" to get some clues

very entertaining and informative film...

Happy Travels!

midnight-in-paris.movie-trailer.com

Cafes on the Blvd St. Germain have literary connections, Deux Magots and Flore are two. Be prepared to pay big bucks for IMO, mediocre food. But, you can just order a coffee and have a good experience and decent people-watching, although lots of fellow tourists.

Hemingwy wrote that he would kill pigeons for dinner in The Luxembourg Gardens, hiding them in his baby's pram.

My memory is terrible but re-read Hemingway's Moveable Feast (short read). ALso, John Baxter's books usually mention literary Paris (We'll always have Paris and A Paris Christmas).

If I remember correctly Le Procope is a former literary haunt.

Nica 3, for nostalgia you might watch the old film THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS with Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor in her hay day – she was gorgeous!

Quovadis, thank you for the suggestions of parisvoice.com – looks good. Similar to tiredoflondon.com for happenings in London


I will definitely see MIDNIGHT IN PARIS…

Nica, just found this
Paris Expats: The Euro's Modern Revenge Recalls a Lost Generation ...
http://www.travelbeat.net/literary/....os-modern.html - Cached
May 7, 2008 – Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald arrived in Paris on the heels of the success ... (Photo: Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy ...


Also checked – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMMED is set in Paris – been a long time since I read Fitzgerald but I guess that he and Zelda did a bit of damage in the City of Lights in their day.


I just returned from London but already I am thinking of the next trip (aren’t we all?) probably to Paris. I am definitely interested in any ex-pat literary tour. I am going to read David McCullough’s THE GREATER JOURNEY: AMERICANS IN PARIS in the 19th century. They traveled in style in those days.

Every Friday at 10:30 AM Paris Walks has a 'Hemingway's Paris' tour

http://www.paris-walks.com/summer-walks.html

Hemingway and Hadley had their first dinner in Paris at Aux Pres Clerc on Rue Jacob and rue Bonaparte..I think it's Bonaparte. It's just down the street from Deux Magots and about 1/4 the price and the food is good!

I took the Hemingway's Paris tour with Paris Walks a few years ago and quite enjoyed it. Thought the guide's info on George Orwell, Joyce/Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Co, was just as interesting as the Hemingway stuff. Came right home and read "Sun Also Rises" and "A Moveable Feast" again. I don't intend to read "Olysses" again, sorry.

Last spring I read "The Paris Wife" and was totally floored. Was expecting some drivel; was surprised to see Hadley Hemingway in a totally new way (not that many women have been married to TWO Pulitzer Prize winners--that alone tells you that if this woman was not a femme fatale--and she certainly was not--she must have been darn brilliant on her own). Used that as springboard to re-read all my Hemingway and Fitzgerald biography stuff, plus added some more investigation of Hadley.

I found a copy of Hadley's biography by her best friend Alice (out of print) and am quite happy to own it.

Very interesting website on that latest journey re Hemingway and Hadley:

http://www.thehemingwayproject.com/
She has tapes of Hadley's voice on there. Great fun re Hemingway.

Found "Midnight in Paris" to be so much fun! Lots of inaccuracies, but still springboard for pointing one's finger at the screen and saying, "There's Josephine Baker! OMG--it's Manley!"

Wonderful gift to husband.

ttt - hoping for more suggestions

What a co-incidence. I recently found a book in a charity shop and am reading it at the moment. It is called "Found Meals of The Lost Generation - Recipes and Anecdotes from 1920's Paris" by Suzanne Rodriguez-Hunter.[1994] Each chapter devotes itself to a major literary or artistic figure of the day and finishes with a quotation describing an actual meal in which he or she took part. Recipes are included. I am sorry I cannot help in your quest, but what a great thought. Looking forward to hearing how it goes.

Quowadis, thanks for your suggestion about seeing MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, the new Woody Allen film - fun with great scenery, cute spoof on the days of THE MOVEABLE FEAST.

It's doing well in the boxoffice too.

Thank you for all of your help! I'll be organizing the route tonight so I'll be sure to post back here later on in the hopes of getting some feedback - or inspiring others!

SO. Thank you again for your help! From the links everyone provided and some research I've done on my own, I've created the following itinerary:

A. Start at the Ritz where the Fitzgeralds stayed in Paris. The hotel bar is called the Bar Hemingway. Hemingway had his first drink after Paris was liberated in 1944 at the Ritz.

B. Head to 30 Rue Bonaparte where Hemingway & Hadley had their first dinner @ Le Pre aux Clercs

C. 6 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés → Deux Magots, where the "Lost Generation" often spent time together.

D. Shakespeare & CO: 12 Rue de l’Odeon → bookstore that was the stomping ground for Fitzgerald, Joyce, Hemingway.

E. 58 Rue de Vaugirard → home of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

F. 27 Rue de Fleurus → Gertrude Stein’s house

G. Luxembourg Gardens → Where Hemingway wrote that he’d kill pigeons

H. Where Midnight in Paris begins (the steps he stands on): Eglise Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, a 17th-century church near the Pantheon [also the burial place of Voltaire & Victor Hugo]

I. 74 rue du Cardinal Lemoine → Where Hemingway first moved when he arrived in Paris in 1922

J. Hemingway lived here with Hadley: 74 Rue du Cardinal-Lemoine

K. Old houses and haunts on Mouffetard market street → In "A Moveable Feast", Hemingway called it, "that wonderful crowded market street which led into the Place Contrescarpe."

The total tour, according to Google Maps, will take just 1 hour and 20 minutes walking. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday!

Thanks again for your help and I hope this can help others!

Nica, WOW! You have really done your homework!

Saving for future reference - merci!

Great job! Am saving the addresses you've looked up.

thank you, NicaZ!

Wow! Thanks so much! Have you done your trip? If so, any more tips or advice?

I just read a really wonderful book on Hadley Hemingway called Paris Without End by Gioia Diliberto. This prompted me to read a Moveable Feast at last also. My husband read A Moveable Feast a few years ago before on eof our Paris visits and this prompted a visit to the Hemingway Bar for some $40 cocktails!! I was really moved by both of these books regarding Hadley and Ernest's feelings for her and her ability to move past her pain and forgive him. She just seemed so lovely and I spent the 1st part of A Moveable Feast really mad at him becasue I knew he was going to leave her and the last half feeling sorry for him because I think he regretted it. The line that he wished he died before he ever loved anyone but her is just so sad.