Café des Amateurs (now called Café Delmas) “I lived on the third floor.”įord Maddox Ford and the Devil’s Disciple 5. “I’m sure.” “It’s under 74 rue Cardinal Lemoine,” I said.

“I stopped by to ask you to the little evenings we’re giving in that amusing Bal Musette near the Place Contrescarpe on the rue Cardinal Lemoine.” “I lived above it for two years before you came to Paris this last time.” “How odd. Sometimes Hemingways went down to take a whirl, but unfortunately the clamor compounded by annoying accordion music was there every night. The reason for this choice was that the price was right, while a nicely furnished apartment around Luxembourg Gardens and Montparnasse cost 1000 francs or 85 dollars a month.Īt the ground floor of the same building, there was a workmen’s dance hall, or Bal Musette (used to be called «Bal au Printemps», but now no longer exists). » Actually it consisted of only two rooms and a tiny kitchen, it was not convenient to a Metro stop and was in a poor working-class neighborhood. We rented it furnished for 250 francs a month, about 18 dollars It is on top of a high hill in the very oldest part of Paris.

Ernest wrote to his parents that the apartment was « the jolliest place you ever saw. Lewis Galantière, one of Sherwood Anderson’s friends, helped them to find a room. Hemingways moved into an apartment on the fourth floor on January 9, 1922, and lived there until August 1923 (the interior is closed to the public). I would give up the room in the hotel where I wrote and there was only the rent of 74 rue Cardinal Lemoine which was nominal.

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