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69-544: Hotel La Lousiane is a Parisian hotel located at the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés at the intersection of rue de Buci and rue de Seine in the sixth arrondissement . It has a main entrance on 60, rue de Seine and a side entrance on 27 rue de Buci. It sits at the crossroad between four central lines: the Passarella des Arts (N), the Luxembourg Garden , (S), rue St Guillaume, (W) and place St Michel, (S). It

138-408: A ballad featuring bongos called " Cymbaline ", written by Roger Waters and performed by David Gilmour . The French film censorship board in 1969 insisted that some of the dialogue be censored around the 81-minute mark before the film could be released. In the film, as the couple mixes up a hallucinogenic concoction in the kitchen, the ingredients " benzedrine " and " banana peel " are deleted from

207-452: A beverage to be enjoyed, and it had a limited clientele. He left for London, and another Armenian named Maliban opened a new café on the rue de Buci , where he also sold tobacco and pipes. His café also had little commercial success, and he left for Holland. A waiter from his café, an Armenian named Grigoire, born in Persia, took over the business and opened it on rue Mazarine , near

276-640: A depot to collect and preserve the furniture, decorations, and art treasures of the nationalised churches and monasteries. The old monastery officially became the Museum of French Monuments. The paintings collected were transferred to the Louvre, where they became the property of the Central Museum of the Arts, the ancestor of the modern Louvre, which opened there at the end of 1793. The École des Beaux Arts ,

345-482: A few days away. Now these political prisoners began to be viewed as a genuine threat, should any of them be conspiring with France's enemies. In what was a planned but inhumane tactic, politicians at Paris sent bands of criminals, armed mainly with pikes and axes, into each prison. Although at least one deputy from the Convention accompanied each band, the results were horrifying. Hundreds of prisoners were cut down in

414-564: A palace with extensive gardens and established herself as a patroness of literature and the arts, until her death in 1615. In 1673 the theatrical troupe in the city, the Comédie-Française , was expelled from its building on Rue Saint-Honoré rue Saint‑Honoré and moved to the left bank, to the passage de Pont-Neuf (the present-day rue Jacques‑Callot ), just outside the Saint‑Germain quarter. Its presence displeased

483-494: A success; the café is still in business. By 1723 there were more than three hundred eighty cafés in the city. The Café Procope particularly attracted the literary community of Paris, because many book publishers, editors and printers lived in the quarter. The writers Diderot and d'Alembert are said to have planned their massive philosophical work, the Encyclopédie , at Procope, and at another popular literary meeting place,

552-629: A wide south to north axis from the Montparnasse railroad station to the Seine. which became the rue de Rennes . The rue de Rennes was only completed as far as the parvis in the front of the Church of Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés by the end of the Second Empire in 1871, and stopped there, sparing the maze of narrow streets between boulevard Saint‑Germain and the river. The quarter

621-468: Is a drug user and dangerous, he goes to her hotel room, where she introduces him to marijuana and they make love. She is leaving for Ibiza and invites Stefan to follow her there. When he arrives, he finds she is involved with a wealthy ex-Nazi called Wolf. Stefan persuades her to join him in an isolated villa and she secretly brings both money and a huge quantity of heroin she has stolen from Wolf. After an idyllic time swimming, sunbathing and making love, she

690-451: Is itching for the heroin and introduces him to it as well. Soon the two are on a downward spiral of addiction. Wolf demands return of the rest of the heroin and money and, as payment for what they have used, Stefan has to work in his bar while Estelle has to share his bed. Charlie comes looking for Stefan and urges him to return to Paris. On the night he’s supposed to leave for Paris, Estelle reveals to Stefan that she’s been sleeping with Wolf

759-458: Is most associated with jazz musicians of the 1950s and 1960s. Oscar Peterson , Miles Davis , Bud Powell , Max Roach , Dizzy Gillespie , Art Blakey , Billie Holiday , Lester Young and Charlie Parker all stayed at the hotel. In the early 1960s, Powell and his wife Buttercup resided at the hotel for a long period. In 1954, a double portrait of Lucian Freud , In Shadow Against the Light from

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828-596: Is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris , France , located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés . Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the rue des Saints-Pères on the west, between the rue de Seine and rue Mazarine on the east, and the rue du Four on the south. Residents of the quarter are known as Germanopratins . The Latin quarter's cafés include Les Deux Magots , Café de Flore , le Procope , and

897-420: Is so sale , so utterly depressing, so hopeless. Pray do what you can." He corrected proofs of his earlier work, but refused to write anything new. "I can write, but have lost the joy of writing", he told his editor. He kept enough sense of humor to remark: "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go." He died on 30 November 1900, and was first buried in a small cemetery outside

966-515: The Brasserie Lipp and Les Deux Magots , where the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and writer Simone de Beauvoir held court. Sartre (1905–1980) was the most prominent figure of the period; he was a philosopher, the founder of the school of existentialism , but also a novelist, playwright, and theater director. He also was very involved in the Paris politics of the left; after the war he

1035-713: The Brasserie Lipp , as well as many bookstores and publishing houses. In the 1940s and 1950s, it was the centre of the existentialist movement (associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir ). It is also home to the École des Beaux-Arts , Sciences Po , the Saints-Pères biomedical university center of the University of Paris , the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences , and

1104-668: The Cordeliers Section of what is now the 6th arrondissement , became centers of revolutionary activity after 1789; they produced thousands of pamphlets, newspapers, and proclamations which influenced the Parisian population and that of France as a whole. The prison of the Abbey of Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés, a two-storey building near the church, was filled with persons who had been arrested for suspicion of counter-revolutionary motives: former aristocrats, priests who refused to accept

1173-452: The Musée national Eugène Delacroix , in the former apartment and studio of painter Eugène Delacroix . Until the 17th century the land where the quarter is located was prone to flooding from the Seine, and little building took place there; it was largely open fields, or prés , which gave the quarter its name. The Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey in the center of the quarter was founded in

1242-465: The 6th century by the son of Clovis I , Childebert I (ruled 511–558). In 542, while making war in Spain , Childebert raised his siege of Zaragoza when he heard that the inhabitants had placed themselves under the protection of the martyr Saint Vincent . In gratitude the bishop of Zaragoza presented him with the saint's stole . When Childebert returned to Paris, he caused a church to be erected to house

1311-408: The Abbey developed into a major center of scholarship and learning. A village grew up around the Abbey, which had about six hundred inhabitants by the 12th century. The modern rue du Four is the site of the old ovens of the monastery, and the dining hall was located along the modern rue de l'Abbaye . A parish church, the church of Saint-Pierre, also was built on the left bank, at the site of

1380-564: The American Thomas Eakins . Architects graduated from the school included Gabriel Davioud , Charles Garnier , and the Americans Julia Morgan , Richard Morris Hunt and Bernard Maybeck . The painter Eugène Delacroix established his residence and studio at 6 rue de Furstenberg and lived there from 1857 until his death in 1863. The vast public works projects of Napoleon III and his Prefect of

1449-665: The Café Carrefour, an all-night restaurant. Because of its low rents and proximity to the University, the quarter was also popular with students from the French colonies in Africa. There were between three and five thousand African students in the city; their association had its headquarters at 184 boulevard Saint‑Germain and 28 rue Serpente . Because of the number of workers, it also hosted an important bureau of

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1518-821: The Café Landelle on the rue de Buci . A significant event in American history took place on 3 September 1783 at the Hotel York at 56 rue Jacob ; the signing of the Treaty of Paris between Britain and the United States, which ended the American Revolution and granted the U.S. its independence. The signing followed the American victory at the Siege of Yorktown , won with assistance of

1587-699: The Cordeliers Section. The Monastery of Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés was closed and its religious ornaments were taken away. The buildings of the monastery were declared national property and sold or rented to private owners. One large building was turned into a gunpowder storeroom; it exploded, wrecking a large part of the monastery. Another large monastery in the quarter, that of the Petits-Augustins, had been closed and stripped of its religious ornamentation. The empty buildings were taken over by an archaeologist, Alexandre Lenoir , who turned it into

1656-710: The French Communist Party. Immediately after the War, Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés and the nearby Saint-Michel neighbourhood became home to many small jazz clubs, mostly located in cellars, due to the shortage of any suitable space, and because the music at late hours was less likely to disturb the neighbors. The first to open in 1945 was the Caveau des Lorientais, near boulevard Saint‑Michel , which introduced Parisians to New Orleans Jazz, played by clarinetist Claude Luter and his band. It closed shortly afterwards, but

1725-566: The French fleet and French army. The American delegation included Benjamin Franklin , John Adams and John Jay . After the signing, they remained for a commemorative painting by the American artist Benjamin West , but the British delegates refused to pose for the painting, so the painting was never finished. Because of its numerous printers and publishers, Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés, and especially

1794-699: The Louisiane hotel, 60 rue de Seine. Seems like Verlaine , Apollinaire , Sartre and Camus came here. An oldish room with a round ceiling and many voices." During the fifties and the sixties, the cellars of Saint Germain des Pres are turned into jazz concert rooms. It is the case under the hotel with the opening of the Petit Zinc . During that period, the Louisiane welcomes Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Lester Young and Charlie Parker, John Coltrane , Chet Baker , Mal Waldron , Dexter Gordon , Wayne Shorter . In

1863-661: The Paris intellectual community, and celebrities from the Paris cultural world. They soon had doormen who controlled who was important or famous enough to be allowed inside into the cramped, smoke-filled cellars. A few of the musicians went on to celebrated careers; Sidney Bechet was the star of the first jazz festival held at the Salle Pleyel in 1949, and headlined at the Olympia music hall in 1955. The musicians were soon divided between those who played traditional New Orleans jazz, and those who wanted more modern varieties. Most of

1932-462: The Revolution in 1789, when it was closed down permanently. At the end of the 16th century, Margaret of Valois (1553–1615) the estranged wife of King Henry IV of France but still officially Queen of France, decided to build a residence in the quarter, in lands belonging to the Abbey near the Seine just west of the modern rue de Seine , near the present Institut de France . She built

2001-490: The Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann in the 1860s dramatically changed the map of the quarter. To reduce the congestion of the narrow maze of streets on the Left Bank, Haussmann had intended to turn the rue des Ecoles into a major boulevard, but the slope was too steep, and he decided instead to construct boulevard Saint‑Germain through the heart of the neighborhood. It was not completed until 1889. He also began

2070-643: The Window, With His Second Wife, Caroline Blackwood was painted in the hotel. It is on display at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, Canada . It has been run by four generations of the Blanchot family since the 1930s. The hotel has developed a tradition of welcoming writer and artists. Some of which famous like Salvador Dalí . Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir moved into

2139-456: The area. Gentrifying real estate values then intervened. By 2009 many publishers, including Hachette Livre and Flammarion had moved out of the community. More (1969 film) The screenplay was written by Paul Gégauff and Barbet Schroeder with the original story by Schroeder. It features a soundtrack written and performed by the English rock band Pink Floyd , released as an album

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2208-494: The audio track. On the DVD the words have been re-added as subtitles. Upon its release, More garnered mainly negative reviews from critics, and was controversially reviewed by audiences and scholars, who commented on the drug use and impacts. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has 4 reviews, 3 are negative. At AlloCiné , which assigns a weighted mean rating to reviews, the film has a score of 3.7 based on 37 critics. With regard to

2277-539: The authorities of the neighboring Collége des Quatres-Nations (the present Institut de France ) and in 1689 they moved again, this time to the rue des Fossés des Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés (the modern rue de l'Ancienne‑Comédie ), where they remained until 1770. The poor condition of the theater roof forced them to move in that year to the right bank, to the Hall of machines of the Tuileries Palace, which

2346-538: The case of Nicolas Grenier . Egyptian writer Albert Cossery spent the later part of his life living in a hotel in this district. James Baldwin frequented the cafés, written about in Notes of a Native Son . Charles Dickens describes the fictional Tellson's Bank as "established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris" in his novel A Tale of Two Cities . At one time numerous publishers were located in

2415-585: The cellars on the rue de Rennes . Jean-Paul Sartre , Simone de Beauvoir , Juliette Gréco , Léo Ferré , Jean-Luc Godard , Boris Vian , and François Truffaut were all at home there. But there were also poets such as Jacques Prévert and artists such as Giovanni Giacometti . As a residential address Saint‑Germain is no longer quite as fashionable as the area further south towards the Jardin du Luxembourg , partly due to Saint‑Germain's increased popularity among tourists. On 29 November 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka ,

2484-458: The city, before being reburied in 1909 at Pere Lachaise . The small hotel where Wilde died became famous; later guests included Marlon Brando and Jorge Luis Borges . It was completely redecorated by Jacques Garcia , and is now a five-star luxury hotel called L'Hotel . In the first half of the 20th century, Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés and nearly the whole of the 6th arrondissement, was a densely populated working‑class neighborhood, whose population

2553-528: The clubs closed by the early 1960s, as musical tastes shifted toward rock and roll. The literary life of Paris after World War II was centered in Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés, both because of the atmosphere of non-conformism and because of the large concentration of book stores and publishing houses. Because most writers lived in tiny rooms or apartments, they gathered in cafés, most famously the Café de Flore ,

2622-498: The description of the three oval rooms favoured by writers: rooms Ten, Nineteen and Thirty Six. The current owner, Xavier Blanchot, is one of the pioneers of French Internet. La Louisiane has also been the siege of his offices and of a number of startups since 1999. 48°51′13″N 2°20′13″E  /  48.8536°N 2.3369°E  / 48.8536; 2.3369 Saint-Germain-des-Pr%C3%A9s Saint-Germain-des-Prés ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ de pʁe] )

2691-456: The façade where the main entrance stands. A commemorative plate reads: "Here fell Jacques Francesco of the second armored division. For France. August 22nd 1944." Jacques Francesco is the war name of Auguste Fenioux who fought in the second armored division under the command of General Leclerc. Jean-Paul Sartre sets up Juliette Greco in room Ten and moved to room Nineteen which he kept in his name until 1950. Juliette Greco and Miles Davis meet in

2760-462: The film's overall design, Roger Ebert stated, " More is a weird, freaky movie about two hedonistic kids who destroy themselves with drugs. More precisely, it's about a kinky American girl who destroys her German boyfriend and in the process destroys herself ... The message seems to be: Sure, speed kills, but what a way to go." The film was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection under Home Vision Entertainment on 5 April 2005. A Blu-ray as

2829-789: The film. In the summer of 1970, Gene Vincent and Adrian Owlett move to the Louisiane to oversee the production of The Day the World Turned Blue album and to organize the subsequent French tour. Towards the end of the Eighties, Quentin Tarantino becomes a regular. He called the restaurant scene at the end of Inglourious Basterds , La Louisiane . Bertrand Tavernier shoots his movie titled Round Midnight at la Louisiane. Leos Carax and Juliette Binoche stay there while they shoot Les Amants du Pont-Neuf . The documentary film of Michel La Veaux , Hôtel La Louisiane describes

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2898-513: The first week in September. As Englishman Arthur Young noted, the street outside one prison literally ran red with blood. The former Cordeliers Convent , closed by the revolutionaries, became the headquarters of one of the most radical factions, whose leaders included Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins , though both would be run out by ever more extreme factions. The radical revolutionary firebrand, Swiss physician Jean-Paul Marat , lived in

2967-600: The hotel in 1943 and lived there during and after the Second World War, making it the headquarters of the existentialists. Albert Camus , Boris Vian , Anne-Marie Cazalis , as well as Claude Simon , also a resident, regularly mingled at the Lousiane. The fight for the Liberation of Paris were very violent on rue de Seine and rue de Buci, under the windows of the hotel. Bullet impacts can still be seen on

3036-485: The hotel which will be the setting of their love story. Albert Cossery , the Egyptian writer elects residence there in 1945 until his death, in 2008. Other writers have lived there, such as Ernest Hemingway , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Henry Miller , Cyril Connolly , Peter Berling , and Albertine Sarrazin . On 4 November 1965, the hotel is mentioned in a letter addressed by Albertine Sarrazin to her mother "I am at

3105-524: The jazz clubs of the neighborhood, but Sartre wrote that he rarely visited them, finding them too crowded, uncomfortable and loud. Simone de Beauvoir (1902–1986), famous philosopher, the lifelong companion of Sartre, was another important literary figure, both as an early proponent of feminism and as an autobiographer and novelist. After the Second World War, the neighbourhood became the centre of intellectuals and philosophers, actors, singers and musicians. Existentialism co-existed with jazz and chanson in

3174-646: The leader of opposition to the government of the King of Morocco, was kidnapped as he emerged from the door of the Brasserie Lipp. His body was never found. The area is served by the stations of the Paris Métro : Many writers have written about this Parisian district in prose such as Boris Vian , Marcel Proust , Gabriel Matzneff (see La Nation française ), Jean-Paul Caracalla or in Japanese poetry in

3243-442: The modern rue Mabillon . There were three hundred forty stalls at the fair of 1483; Special buildings were erected for the fair in 1512, which contained 516 stalls. The fair was also famous for the gambling, debauchery, and the riots that ensued when groups of rowdy students from the nearby university invaded the fair. The buildings burned on the night of 17–18 March 1762, but were quickly rebuilt. The fair continued annually until

3312-420: The movie was shot on the island of Ibiza . The castle of Ibiza , which dominates the harbour and the town, is the scene for the final act. A tunnel near the castle was also used. In Paris, the movie was shot at Hotel La Louisiane in real room 36. His [ Barbet Schroeder 's] feeling about music for movies was, in those days, that he didn't want a soundtrack to go with the movie. All he wanted was, literally, if

3381-470: The national school of architecture, painting and sculpture, was established after the Revolution at 14 rue Bonaparte , on the site of the former monastery of the Petits-Augustins. Its faculty and students included many of the most important artists and architects of the 19th century; the faculty included Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Gustave Moreau . The students included painters Pierre Bonnard , Georges Seurat , Mary Cassatt , Edgar Degas , and

3450-400: The new home of Comédie-Française . When the theater moved in 1689, he moved the café to the same location, on the rue des Fossés‑Saint‑Germain . The café was then taken over by a Sicilian, Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, who had worked as a waiter for Pascal in 1672. He renamed the café Procope, and expanded its menu to include tea, chocolate, liqueurs, ice cream and configures. It became

3519-585: The present Ukrainian catholic church; its parish covered most of the modern 6th and 7th arrondissements . The fortifications of King Philip Augustus (1180–1223), the first recorded walls to be built around the entire city, left Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés just outside the walls. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés was not only a religious and cultural center, but also an important marketplace, thanks to its annual fair, which attracted merchants and vendors from all over Europe. The Foire Saint-Germain

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3588-453: The quarter; 18.1 percent in 1962. In the years after World War II, Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés was known primarily for its cafés and its bars, its diversity and its non-conformism. The bars were a popular destination for American soldiers and sailors after the war. It was also known as a meeting place for the largely-clandestine gay community of Paris, which at the time frequented the Café de Flore and

3657-606: The radio was switched on in the car, for example, he wanted something to come out of the car. Or someone goes and switches the TV on, or whatever it is. He wanted the soundtrack to relate exactly to what was happening in the movie, rather than a film score backing the visuals. The soundtrack to the film was composed and performed by English rock band Pink Floyd , and consists of instrumental compositions and more conventional songs, such as " The Nile Song ", which (somewhat out of character for Pink Floyd) borders on Stooges -like heavy rock, and

3726-533: The relic, dedicated to the Holy Cross and Saint Vincent, placed where he could see it across the fields from the royal palace on the Île de la Cité . In 558, St. Vincent's church was completed and dedicated by Germain, Bishop of Paris on 23 December; on the same day, Childebert died. Close by the church a monastery was erected. The Abbey church became the burial place of the dynasty of Merovingian Kings. Its abbots had both spiritual and temporal jurisdiction over

3795-484: The residents of Saint-Germain (which they kept until the 17th century). Since the monastery had a rich treasury and was outside the city walls , it was plundered and set on fire by the Normans in the ninth century. It was rebuilt in 1014 and rededicated in 1163 by Pope Alexander III to Bishop Germain, who had been canonized. The church and buildings of the Abbey were rebuilt in stone c.  1000   AD , and

3864-532: The revolutionary Constitution, foreigners, and so forth. By September 1792, Paris prisons were quite full. The former king and queen were political prisoners and were moved from the Tuileries Palace to the old Knights Templar towers on the right bank, where there was less risk of rescue or escape. France was at war; the Duke of Brunswick had just issued his menacing manifesto, stating that if the former monarchy were not restored, he would raze Paris, and his troops were only

3933-533: The rooms of three entire floors are turned into temporary galleries. In each room, a curator invites one or several artists. From 31 May to 16 June 2018, within the setting of Parcours Saint-Germain, an event bringing together many businesses and hotels to display contemporary works, the hotel welcomes exhibit Chambre 10 by the collective Sans Titre 2016 . The following year, a show titled Flower Power takes place from 23 May to 2 June 2019. Four rooms are turned into exhibition spaces. Artists present their creations on

4002-498: The same year. Schroeder's inspiration for the film came from the counterculture tradition of the 1960s with themes of drugs, addiction, sexual freedom and the beauty of life often in New Wave films. Production began in 1968 with a low budget, and the film was partially funded by Jet Films and executive produced by Les Films du Losange . Upon its release on 4 August 1969, More garnered mostly negative reviews from critics. It

4071-403: The sixties and the seventies, the hotel welcomes many celebrities belonging to the beat generation and to various rock bands. Among them, musicians like Jim Morrisson , lead singer of The Doors , or Pink Floyd . Barbet Schroeder moves in with Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grunberg to shoot the movie More , which bears the same name as the eponymous Pink Floyd album which makes up the music of

4140-691: The theme of the sixties-seventies: Martine Aballéa , Pierre Joseph and Frank Perrin , along with the participation of the atelier of Nathalie Talec from the Beaux-Arts of Paris. In November 2019, the exhibition the Shining sees ten artists pay tribute to the Stanley Kubrick movie . The Louisiane is mentioned in several books, for instance in Hôtels littéraires. In Voyage autour de la terre, Nathalie de Saint-Phalle weaves into her narrative

4209-530: The way the hotel has impacted the various artists and writers who have made it their residence. In 2002, from 14 to 27 December, Alain Le Gaillard gallery hosts 24 artistes in 12 rooms, amongst which : Julien Beneyton , Jean-Luc Bichaud , Nicole Tran Ba Vang , Barthélémy Toguo , Lionel Scoccimaro , Emmanuelle Villard , Wang Du. In 2007, at the favour of the Curating Contest exhibit,

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4278-468: The whole time. Stefan begs two packets of heroin from a dealer the following morning and overdoses as a suicide. He is buried in open country. One of the most beautiful, most lyrical and most remarkable films a young director has ever made about his generation. —Henri Chapier - Combat, A major film à la Murnau that does not talk about drugs so much as show a certain way of meeting it. — Serge Daney - Les cahiers du cinéma , Most of

4347-731: Was a follower (though not a member) of the Communist Party, then broke with the communists after the Soviet invasion of Hungary, and became an admirer of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, then of Mao-tse Tung. In 1968 he joined the demonstrations against the government, standing on a barrel to address striking workers at the Renault factory in Billancourt. The legends of Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés describe him as frequenting

4416-457: Was already famous in 1176, when it allocated half of its profits to the King. The fair opened fifteen days after Easter, and lasted for three weeks. The dates and the sites varied over the years; beginning in 1482 it opened on 1 October and lasted eight days; in other years it opened 11 November or 2 February. Beginning in 1486, it was held in a portion of the gardens of the Hôtel de Navarre, close to

4485-480: Was also the temporary home of many musicians, artists and writers from abroad, including Richard Wagner who lived for several months on rue Jacob . The writer Oscar Wilde spent his last days in the quarter, at the small, run-down hotel called the Hotel d'Alsace at 13 rue des Beaux‑Arts , near the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He wandered the streets alone, and spent what money he had on alcohol. He wrote to his editor, "This poverty really breaks one's heart: it

4554-413: Was declining. The population of the 6th arrondissement was 101,584 in 1921, and dropped to 83,963. In the postwar years, the housing was in poor condition; only 42 percent of residences had indoor toilets, and only 23 percent had their own showers or baths. By 19-0 the population of the 6th fell to 47,942, a drop of fifty percent in seventy years. In 1954 workers represented 19.2 percent of the population of

4623-408: Was much too large for them. In 1797 they moved back to the Left Bank, to the modern Odéon Theatre. The first café in Paris appeared in 1672 at the Saint-Germain Fair, served by an Armenian named Pascal. When the fair ended he opened a more permanent establishment on the quai de l'Ecole, where he served coffee for two sous and six deniers per cup. It was considered more of a form of medication than

4692-481: Was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival . More was released on DVD on 5 April 2005 by Home Vision Entertainment . In West Germany in the late 1960s, Stefan has finished his mathematics studies and decides to experience life. Hitch-hiking to Paris, he is befriended by a petty criminal called Charlie, who takes him to a party where he is fascinated by an American girl called Estelle. Though Charlie warns him that she

4761-421: Was soon followed by cellars in or near Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés; Le Vieux-Columbier, the Rose Rouge, the Club Saint-Germain; and especially, Le Tabou . The musical styles were both traditional New Orleans jazz and bebop , led by Sydney Bechet and trumpeter Boris Vian ; Mezz Mezzrow , André Rewellotty, guitarist Henri Salvador , and singer Juliette Gréco . The clubs attracted students from the nearby university,

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