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Hemingway's Paris Walking Tour
Paris

Follow the young Ernest Hemingway around the Left Bank of the 1920s, from his first flat above a dance hall to the cafés, bookshop and brasserie that appear in A Moveable Feast.

8 stops · 5 km

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The Flat Above the Dance Hall

Hemingway and Hadley lived above a working-class dance hall in this building, which became the model for the one where Jake Barnes meets Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises.

Sylvia Beach's Bookshop

Hemingway borrowed books from Sylvia Beach's original Shakespeare and Company at this address, where she published James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922.

Lunch at Lipp

In A Moveable Feast, a hungry Hemingway orders a liter of beer and potato salad at this Alsatian brasserie, then a second helping and a cervelas sausage.

The Walk He Always Took

When he was broke, Hemingway walked through this garden to the museum beside it, where he claimed the paintings looked clearer and more beautiful on an empty stomach.

Saturday Evenings at Gertrude Stein's

Gertrude Stein read Hemingway's early stories in her apartment here and warned him that one was "inaccrochable," like a painting too explicit to hang in a show.

The Montparnasse Crossroads

Jake Barnes complains that taxis always take you to the Rotonde, adding that "ten years from now it will probably be the Dome," the café across the boulevard where Hemingway spent an evening with the painter Jules Pascin.

The Flat Above the Sawmill

Hemingway, Hadley and their baby son lived above a working sawmill here, and the noise drove him to write in the cafés nearby.

The Best Café in Paris

Hemingway wrote at this café so often that a brass plaque on the bar now marks his seat.

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