Paris Walks Hemingway's Paris

2 March 2012
Last year, friends of ours told us of these walks. This year, Geoffrey picked up their monthly pamphlet at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore. We chose to go on a walk called 'Hemingway's Paris' in the Latin Quarter. I had not read Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast'  so in preparation for this walk, it was downloaded from Kindle and  I read it.

12 euros each. Tour was for 2 hours. Meeting place at le Métro Cardinal Lemoine, 5th arrondissement, Left bank.
Chris, the tour guide was excellent. It was enjoyable and informative. There are many writers who lived here including James Joyce, George Orwell, Victor Hugo, Verlaine

At times, it is good to be guided by people who know where to look.


This is a fragment of the medieval wall
3 metre thick at the base and 9 metres high.

This is part of Phillipe Auguste's wall in rue Jacques-Henri Lartigue.
Phillipe Auguste was Phillip 11 of France.
The wall was built between 1190 and 1220.
The wall had a walkway, battlements, fortified gates and round towers at regular intervals. It was built to have primarily a defensive function.
Bits of the wall can be seen in various locations around Paris. You just have to know where to look.

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These are the steps where Owen Wilson sat as the 1920 Peugot Landaulet,  the car used in the Woody Allen film, Midnight in Paris, drove up to him. Can you believe it! Our friend Marilyn suggested Geoffrey and I see this film and now here am I sitting on the steps.



This is the street the car drove up from in Midnight in Paris.
How good is that!
At Place de Abbe Basset, 53 Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, on front of the steps of  Église Saint Etienne-Du-Mont. A scene is repeated throughout the movie where, as the church clock strikes midnight, Wilson is transported back in time to the magical age of Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and
F.Scott Fitzgerald.





The historic church of St Étienne-du-Mont
next to the Panthéon

Église St Étienne-du-Mont has the shrine of Ste-Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris.




This Rood screen in Église St Étienne-du-Mont, is the only complete Rood screen left in Paris.
The Rood screen was used to separate the elite from the the ordinary people in the 16th Century

We have just come from la Place de la Contra-Sharpe and on to rue Mouffetard.

Rue Mouffetard is at the top of the Roman road heading toward Lyon. It is an ancient section of the Roman road to Italy, via Lyon.

Rue Mouffetard is a semi-pedestrian street of 605 metres long and 6 metres wide. It is one of the oldest street markets in Paris and winds downhill through the Latin Quarter.




Had lunch here at St-Metard at the end of rue Mouffetard.
The bistro is at the bottom end of rue Mouffetard.



Me with Helen from Glen Iris. Helen was on the walk with us.