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ue de l'Oddéon stood the original Shakespeare & Company bookshop
where owner Sylvia Beach lent books to Hemingway, and edited, retyped and pub-
lished Ulyssesfor James Joyce in 1922. It was closed during the occupation when
Beach refused to sell her last copy of Joyce's Finnegans Waketo a Nazi officer.
Bd St-Germain's 3 Les Deux Magots and 4 Café de Flore were favourite cafes of
postwar intellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
At 5 36 r

At 2 12 r 12 rue de l'

ue Bonaparte Henry Miller stayed in a 5th-floor mansard room in 1930,
which he later wrote about in Letters to Emil(1989). 6 L'Hôtel , the former Hôtel
d'Alsace, is where Oscar Wilde died in 1900. Hemingway spent his first night in Paris in
room 14 of the 7 Hôtel d'Angleterre in 1921.
In 1925 William Faulkner stayed several months at what's now the posh 8 HHôteel
Luuxemmbouurg P

36 rue B

g Parc, and Hemingway's last years in Paris were at 9 6 r 6 rue F ue Férou. F Scott

and Zelda Fitzgerald lived at a 58 r ur-

uus, where Gertrude Stein lived and entertained artists and writers including Matisse,
Picasso, Braque, Gauguin, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Ezra Pound.
Pound lived at c 700bis r

58 rue de V ue de Vauugiirard in 1928, near b 27 r 7 rue de Fle ue de Fleur-

s Champs in a flat filled with Japanese
paintings and packing crates, while Hemingway's first apartment in this area was
above a sawmill at d 1113 r

is rue No ue Notre D e Dame de e des Ch

3 rue No ue Notre D e Dames de s des Ch s Champs.

EATING

The picnicking turf of the Jardin de Luxembourg is complemented by some
fabulous places to buy picnic ingredients. Even if it's not picnic weather, the
neighbourhood's streets are lined with everything from quintessential Parisi-
an bistros to chic designer restaurants. You'll find some charming places in-
side Cour du Commerce St-André, a glass-covered passageway built in 1735
to link two jeu de paume (old-style tennis) courts.