Bookstores

Hi,

I%26#39;m a Literature nerd........

Are there any Victor Hugo/Alexandre Dumas/Hemingway-related historically significant sites in Paris I should try to find?

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Shakespeare %26amp; Co. should definitely be on your list, although it is not the original.

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Just off the Place Contrascarpe is the rue Cardinale Lemoine where Hemingway first liverd in Paris with his new wife Hadely. And there is a cafe, the Cafe Verlaine where he supposedly took an unheated room on the top floor to escape the nose of his apartment and write. Each site is marked. You could also find the statue of Marshell Ney that Jake Barnes walks by.

http://hemingwaysparis.blogspot.com/

Pjk

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Victor Hugo%26#39;s home is at Place Des Vosges in the Marais(4th)

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I was just very happy with this photo of S %26amp; Company...

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Pjk

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Alexandre Dumas had a table at le Vefour restaurant.

Hemingway lived on rue Notre Dame des Champs for a while.

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Are you looking for bookstores (to buy books) or landmarks/monuments related to writers/literature?

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Alexander Dumas has a chateau just outside of Paris. I stumbled upon where his son was born by the opera Comique near Blvd Haussman and Blvd Montmarte.

Take the paris-walks %26quot;hemingway%26#39;s paris%26quot; walk. Runs every Friday and you get see a lot of literary history from Balzac, Hemingway, Joyce and Orwell.

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Hey Makamba ----

I%26#39;m looking for both, actually, maybe some rare bookstores to browse in, and then the above addresses where they lived and their favorite restaurants.........

Thanks, guys!!

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You could easily retrace some of Hemingway%26#39;s steps...

%26quot;For Ernest Hemingway, the walk from his Latin Quarter flat to Gertrude Stein%26#39;s pavillon at 27, rue des Fleurs, would have been a pleasant one: down rue Moufftard until a left on rue Clovis took him past St. Etienne du Montno Notre Dame, but the sort of neighborhood church where you might stop and cross yourself if you were drunk and it was late and you were on your way home to your wife. Then he%26#39;d be in Place du Pantheon, %26quot;windswept%26quot; he calls it in A Moveable Feast, its cobblestoned emptiness funneling into Rue Soufflot, a wide, short street full of Sorbonne students mingling at sidewalk cafes. By now he could see the Luxembourg Gardens at the end of the street; he%26#39;d have to wait for traffic to clear around Place Edmond Rostand, but it was worth it to walk through the park, especially in the good summer weather when the young girls were out reading and the young schoolboys in shorts used sticks to direct their toy sailboats around the fountain. And if it were early enough, and he wasn%26#39;t too late or was coming unannounced, as Ms. Stein said he could, he might take a quick detour past the looming Luxembourg Palace, through the open gate and down to 12, rue de l%26#39;Odeon: Sylvia Beach%26#39;s Shakespeare and Company bookshop.

It was late 1921 when %26quot;Hemingway just walked in one day,%26quot; as Sylvia Beach recalls in her memoir.%26quot;

Pjk

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Adventuregirl: at the moment I%26#39;m running pretty busy, but might have some great tips for you.

Will get back to u asap.

(so don%26#39;t u go anywhere) :)