NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: I’M FREE FLOATING – Blog # 20. I’m free floating – freeing my mind from the usual, the expected, the certain in story writing. I’m learning from Anaximander – he’s the Greek scientist who wrote about Earth free floating in space. I can learn a lot from him. I wasContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: I’M FREE FLOATING – Blog # 20 “
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Why Parisians adore Josephine Baker
Why Parisians adore Josephine Baker. Why is Josephine Baker still so revered in Paris? American-born Freda Josephine McDonald (1906-1975) married her second husband, entertainer William Howard Baker, in 1921 when she was fifteen years old, keeping his name for life, despite her subsequent marriages. She first arrived in Paris in 1925 at the age ofContinue reading “Why Parisians adore Josephine Baker”
Boulevard du Montparnasse at night, 14th Arrondissement – December 2019
Apartment: 2 Square de Robiac
After renovations, the Joyce family moved into their new apartment at 2 Square de Robiac in the 7th arrondissement on 13 June 1925, just off the Rue de Grenelle. Renovations were ongoing and Joyce’s London sponsor Harriet Shaw Weaver, on holiday in Paris, was “shocked by the chaos.” But the apartment was spacious and inContinue reading “Apartment: 2 Square de Robiac”
Hotel Victoria Palace
In August 1923, after a refreshing holiday at the seaside in England, James and Nora Joyce booked into the Hotel Victoria Palace at 6 Rue Blaise Desgoffe in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Hotel Victoria Palace still exists. It is located on a side street off Rue de Rennes, a shopping street in the Montparnasse-RennesContinue reading “Hotel Victoria Palace”