@Irock5, I just finished A Moveable Feast, after reading The Paris Wife for a book club. Yeah -- I was thinking the same thing about him, too. And of course, it all started with the popularity of Midnight in Paris. (Well, at least this round of interest.) We read Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises in our sophomore year of high school, as well as the Great Gatsby. That got me interested in the period way back in the 70s so while I read more back then, I have to say I've really enjoyed revisiting the era this time. I was blown away by a number of things in A Moveable Feast -- one of which was the thought of Hemingway and Ezra Pound playing tennis regularly. It was also touching to think about how the group of friends watched Zelda Fitzgerald as she spiraled into insanity (and Hemingway's concern for Scott's ability to ever write again).

The Greater Journey, by David McCullough, published last fall, traces long connections between Paris and Americans.
Paris to the Moon, written by Adam Gopnik a dozen years ago, looks at the city through the eyes of his young son, and it is a lot more contemporary than most of the titles you have been discussing. My Life in France qualifies as literature considering how many books Julia Child wrote and sold; it would be an adventure to see if any of those 1950s restaurants are still on the menu.
And to bring you back to earth, The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation, by Frederic Spotts, published three years ago.

I truly did not pay much attention when my husband read A Moveable Feast a few years ago. He really liked the book but as a former English teacher who had to teach The Old Man and the Sea, there are other writers I prefer. I did not really think much about Hemingway until after reading the book on Hadley and while he was the "star" of the marriage, I really loved her. I just don't see how the stupid man ever left her! While A Moveable Feast was a love letter to Paris, it was also, to me, a love letter to Hadley for all she did for him and encouraged him to do. I haven't read The PAris Wife, but I may soon. We are going to Paris in a few weeks for a few days, after Italy, and I am going to surprise my husband with one of the Paris Walks Hemingway tours if I can. That lovely man I am married to drove me an hour and a half to Houston (we live in a small city to the east) to see Midnight in Paris, so I want to do something nice for him!!

Southam,

I haven't read the Greater Journey, but we do have PAris to the Moon (haven't read it yet, my husband has) and My Life in PAris. We also have A Year in the Merde and a few others. I have also read most of Irene Nemirovsky. I bought some of her books a Shakespeare and Company over the last few visits to Paris after reading Suite Francaise.

The Greater Journey is very good. It focuses on the 1800s. I was given the hardback for Christmas, beautiful color plates and a very good mix of accounts of the "first" Americans to come to Paris and a history of the city.

I know Paris and the Left Bank fairly well, but we took one of John Baxter's Literary Walks with him through Montparnasse, Luxemborg Gardens, up to their place in Sylvia Beach's (http://shakespeareandcompany.com/) old building for a delightful lunch. Delightful and highly commended. Noel Riley Fitch's book "Walks in Hemingway's Paris" has, well, 8 great walks-mostly in the 5e and 6e arrondisements complete with maps to the addresses and mini-histories of the locations and their connections to Hemingway and the Parisian expats of the " Lost Generation". Gajdusek's "Hemingway's Paris" is excellent also. Just those two books will give any traveler a fine base from which to understand that parisian place and time. The second volume of Michael Reynold's wonderful 5-volume bio is "Hemingway-The Paris Years" for more detail yet. Do yourself a favor and allow yourself a few days to just walk the area, enjoy the food, listen for the echos. Then gather your own bread-wine-cheese movable feast and sit in the Tuileries at the End of the Champs Elysees and watch the sundown over the Arc de Triomphe.