Wednesday October 2, 2013, Writer's Tour of Paris

We were actually supposed to go on another city tour and Notre Dame tour today but Jill and I both have bad colds so we slept in. We decided to head over to the Latin Quarter on the left bank to see where several famous writers lived and worked.

This is 12 Rue de L'Odeon, site of the original Shakespeare and Company bookstore, where Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and others gathered. The owner, Sylvia Beach, also typed and published "Ulysees" in 1922 for James Joyce here. The plaque in the photo after this one is between the two windows on the second floor:

Here's the plaque:

And a couple of old photos of the original Shakespeare and Company. Here's Sylvia beach with James Joyce:

And with Ernest Hemingway (not known who the two women on the left are):

Now here's the current Shakespeare and Company bookstore opened in the early 1950s and which became a gathering place for "the beat" writers: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and others. It's at 37 Rue de la Bucherie:

One of the many rooms in the bookstore:

Found this photo of a reading by Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside Shakespeare and Company:

The Hotel Luxembourg where William Faulkner lived:

6 Rue Ferou, where Ernest Hemingway spent his final months in Paris:

And finally, 58 rue de Vaugirard, where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived for a time:

The Fitzgerald place above is across the street from the Garden of Luxembourg, where we had a nice lunch:

Walking over the Seine to find a taxi back to our hotel... That's the Louvre on the right. We did find a taxi there: