Day Two: Paris 2015

Day Two in Paris: We spent the greater part of the morning at the Muse d' Orsey and the Army Museum where Napoleon is buried.  As we wandered about, we came across a little hidden basilica in the 7th.

Paris 2015: Day Three: Notre Dame and Shakespeare and COmpany

Pretty great view for lunch

We arrived at Notre Dame as mass was in full swing

 

Right above the stairs 

Notes left by vistors 

"Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate from New Jersey, established Shakespeare and Company in 1919 at 8 rue Dupuytren. The store functioned as a lending library as well as a bookstore.^[7] In 1921, Beach moved it to a larger location at 12 rue de l'Odéon, where it remained until 1940.^[1] During this period, the store was the center of Anglo-American literary culture and modernism in Paris. Writers and artists of the "Lost Generation," such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, George Antheil and Man Ray, spent a great deal of time there, and it was nicknamed "Stratford-on-Odéon" by James Joyce, who used it as his office.^[8] Its books were considered high quality and reflected Beach's own taste. The store and its literary denizens are mentioned in Hemingway's AMoveable Feast. Patrons could buy or borrow books like D. H. Lawrence's controversial LadyChatterley's Lover, which had been banned in Britain and the United States.

Beach published Joyce's book Ulysses in 1922. It, too, was banned in the United States and Britain. Later editions were also published under the Shakespeare and Company imprint.^[9]

The original Shakespeare and Company closed on 14 June 1940, during the German occupation of France in World War II.^[2] It has been suggested that it may have been ordered shut because Beach denied a German officer the last copy of Joyce's Finnegans Wake.^[10] When the war ended, Hemingway "personally liberated" the store, but it never re-opened.^[11]"

Mural over the stairs 

Children's book written by Joyce

Paris 2015 Day One: We arrive at our cute little studio apartment in St. Germain

Rue d Mazarine in St Germain 

Our apartment is down the street from the Palete Cafe and the Paris home of George Sand. Also, around the corner is the hotel that Oscar Wilde called home after he was released from prison.

Our first glass of wine in Paris 

 Luxemberg Gardens 

We arrived by train from Amsterdam to out  little studio in St Germain