Private tour in Paris Ellen L
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Book with a 20% deposit
up to 2 people
3 hours
walking
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Ellen L.
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Experience the Paris of the 1920s when the Lost Generation lived here, walk in their footsteps, see their homes. There is a famous saying : "Everyone has 2 countries, their own & France". This was especially true for numerous artists, writers & jazz musicians between the 2 World Wars, many of whom flocked to Paris not only for artistic inspiration but also to find themselves. Known as the Lost Generation, these were men & women who had suffered through WW1. Eager to share ideas they would gather in the numerous cafés of Montparnasse to work & to drink . We will visit the places where these people lived, worked & partied…bearing in mind that the bohemian Left Bank of starving artists & struggling writers has now given way to chic boutiques & high end bistros. What makes this tour unique: the rich photographic & literary content that brings the period to life, selected excerpts of novels & poems, as well as archival recordings of the authors reading their work.
- Mouffetard district, where Hemingway discovered the bohemian life of an expat writer & James Joyce finished writing his groundbreaking novel, Ulysses; - Pantheon district, where TS Eliot, lifelong francophile, spent a year soaking up the culture; - St Germain, the literary district, where Sylvia Beach opened her bookshop Shakespeare & Company; - Luxembourg Gardens, where. . . - William Faulkner lived for 6 months & discovered modernism; - Man Ray, famed surrealist artist & celebrity photographer, had his studio; - Hemingway moved to a posh flat with wife #2 & published his 1st novel; - the Fitzgeralds moved just months after Scott published his masterpiece The Great Gatsby; - Gertrude Stein, self-proclaimed creative genius & leading light of the Lost Generation, held her famed salon; - Montparnasse, we end of the tour over coffee (or cocktails !) in one of the legendary Montparnasse cafes, where Hemingway wrote his 1st novel & met up with fellow Lost Generation authors.
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This is a private walking tour of the Left Bank. Customers meet at the starting point of the tour but private transportation can be arranged for an additional fee. Please contact me before booking the tour for a cost estimate.
57 Rue Lacépède, Paris, Île-de-France, 75005 France
Airport: ,Cruise: ,ByGuide: We will meet in front of the Café La Contrescarpe, a charming café with a yellow awning located on the Place de la Contrescarpe (street address 57 rue Lacepede). If you copy/paste these coordinates into Google Maps, you can see the exact location (48.84444297581748, 2.349350369311436).
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Includes all fees
Book with a 20% deposit
Size:
up to 2 people
Duration:
3 hours
Transportation:
walking
1
Includes all fees
Book with a 20% deposit
Size:
up to 2 people
Duration:
3 hours
Transportation:
walking
1
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