Hemingway's Paris

Paris Art

2011-11-14T04:07:00.016-05:00

Three paintings by Pissarro.
The blog needs a little color every now and then to compliment the vintage black and white photos. If you are familiar with the blog, you know that I throw in some paintings and poster art on occasion to add a splash of color.
The paintings are: "The Boieldieu Bridge At Rouen In Damp Weather", "Boulevard Mountmarte In Winter",and "Boulevard Mountmarte At Night."
From Wikipedia:

Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born in the Virgin Islands, where his father was of Portuguese Jewish descent and his mother was native Creole.[1] He studied in Paris and London, becoming a permanent resident of France. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Courbet and Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

Cafe Lipp

2011-11-12T02:51:00.013-05:00

Léonard Lipp opened his brasserie in the 1870's after fleeing Alsace during the Franco-Prussian War. The menu is typical of that region including beer, sausage, and sauerkraut. (A brasserie serves alcohol and food.) It stayed in the family until 1920 when Marcellin Cazas bought it. (In 1958, Cazas was given the Legion of Honor for running the best literary salon in Paris.)
Hemingway liked the Lipp for it's oysters and wine and it was a good place to write.
After "The Sun Also Rises" was published, Hemingway was told that some of his friends were out to get him since they thought they were recognizable characters in the novel. Hemingway responded that he would be at the Lipp between two and four every day if anyone wanted to confront him. No one did.

More Man Ray

2011-11-04T01:41:00.004-04:00

Man Ray was born, Emmanuel Radnitzky (August 27, 1890–November 18, 1976) in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent most of his career in Paris. He quickly became a prominent member of the art colony there. He was friends with many of the avant garde. The top photo is of painter Joan Miro, then photos of Pablo Picasso, a photo of Man Ray's long-time lover, Kiki of Montparnasse, Salvador Dali and Man Ray, and a photo by Man Ray of an unidentified man.

(Hemingway introduced Kiki to Man Ray in 1921.)

Three Shots of Hemingway by Man Ray

2011-10-31T01:58:00.006-04:00

These three photos of Hemingway are from 1923, taken in Paris by Man Ray, whose self-portrait is at the top.
Judging by the tie, shirt, and sweater that Ernest is wearing in the three shots, I think that it can safely be assumed that all of the photos were taken in that one session.
Man Ray's self-portrait is from 1924.

Some More Paris Cafe Scenes

2011-10-26T19:42:00.000-04:00

Some shots of the sidewalk cafes - and inhabitants - that were such an elemental part of Hemingway's life in the Paris years.
(The second photo is by Brassai.)

Bloomsday

2010-06-16T13:18:00.001-04:00

In honor of "Bloomsday" - June 16th. The day when James Joyce's Leopold Bloom roams Dublin in "Ulysses."

Some Holiday Color

2009-12-22T22:48:00.004-05:00

Happy Holidays, everyone, from Hemingway's Paris.
(According to my good friend and Hemingway fan, Joe Grant, Hadley and Ernest spent their first Christmas in Paris at the Dome Cafe - so a late addition to this post!)

Pamplona

2009-07-07T14:29:00.010-04:00

July 7th marks the beginning of the "running of the bulls" in Pamplona, Northern Spain, at the Festival of San Fermin. Young men have been participating in this ceremony since the 1600's, but Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" published in 1926, made it the event that it is today.
Gertrude Stein recommended to Hemingway that he take a vacation there to help him "clear his head" and concentrate on the business of writing a novel.
These photos are from 1925, one year before he finished his novel.
Top photo: Hemingway on the left, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley, Don Stewart and Pat Guthrie.
(If you click on the bottom photo, you will see Ernest (wearing white pants) just in front of the bull as he participates in "the amateurs.")

Two Hemingway Photos

2009-06-01T23:48:00.005-04:00

These two photos of Ernest are new to me. They were brought to my attention by a writer friend and Hemingway fan, Joe Grant.
Joe's best guess is that they are publicity shots for "The Sun Also Rises."
Here is some biographical information on Joe:
"My short stories have been published in 140 literary reviews and e-zines, such as Byline, New Authors Journal, Underground Voices, Nite-Writer's International Literary Arts Journal, Howling Moon Press, Hack Writers, New Online Review, Literary Tonic, six sentences, NexGenPulp, three UK literary reviews, Bottom of the World and Cupboard Gloom and three most recently in Darkest Before Dawn, strangeroad and a story in the anthology of horror, Northern Haunts, (available at Barnes & Noble, Target and on Amazon). I have been nominated for the Million Writers Award. I have won “Story of the Month” at Bartleby-Snopes Literary Review and Story of the Month at 6 Sentences. I have completed my first novel. I currently reside in Los Angeles. NOTE: Six stories of mine have been featured in 6S Volume 1, a collection of short stories by various writers available at Amazon and 6S Volume II out now. I have also been nominated for a South Stories Literary Award."

Splash Award

2009-05-04T19:52:00.010-04:00

I have been given a Splash award by Matthew at

Movietone News

. Thank you Matthew! Here are the rules copied from Matthew’s post:

The Splash award is given to alluring, amusing, bewitching, impressive, and inspiring blogs. When you receive this award, you must:
1. Put the logo on your blog/post.
2. Nominate up to 9 blogs which allure, amuse, bewitch, impress or inspire you.
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have been splashed by commenting on their blog.
5. Remember to link to the person from whom you received your Splash award.

So, here are a few blogs that I enjoy:

Paris Breakfasts

Paris Apartment

Not By A Long Shot! A photo Blog

Cafe Selavy

Torino Daily Photo

Paris Poster Art

2009-04-06T00:30:00.003-04:00

Colorful vintage 1920's posters of Paris nightlife.

Roofs In Paris

2009-02-22T21:45:00.004-05:00

A touch of class: Roofs in Paris (1886) by Vincent van Gogh.

Touch of Jazz Age Color

2009-01-31T22:11:00.005-05:00

Just a touch of color for the blog.
Hemingway's Jazz Age Paris.

The Hemingways In Schruns

2009-01-17T19:30:00.009-05:00

When the cold, damp, grey air of Winter hit Paris, the Hemingways would head to Switzerland or Austria for the dry cold air, the skiing, and a roaring fire in the lodge.
This photo is from Schruns, Austria, taken in 1925. Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby.
(Click photo to enlarge.)

Hemingway At The Select

2009-01-03T09:11:00.020-05:00

As regular visitors know, I have given quite a bit of space on the blog to Paris cafe life. Hemingway and the expat crowd used the cafes as places to work, socialize, and establish a sense of community.
They also liked to drink, and after leaving Prohibition America they imbibed quite a bit in the cafes.
The Select was one of Ernest's favorite haunts. He went there for breakfast and frequently stayed to write or just catch up on the gossip.
Hemingway also put Jake Barnes and friends, from "The Sun Also Rises" at the Select.

A present day American expat, Rick Tulka, and co-author Noel Riley Fitch have written a book called "Paris cafe: The Select Crowd."
Rick has been generous enough to let me use the above illustration of Hem.
For a change of pace, I'm adding a link to a Youtube clip , so you can see the present day Select and Rick at work. I think that it is very enjoyable and I hope that you do, too.

Christmas Color From Paris

2008-12-23T10:54:00.004-05:00

Merry Christmas to all of Hem's fans!
"Evening in Paris" by Liza Hirst.

Vintage 1920's Paris

2008-12-06T03:48:00.006-05:00

The top photo is of Montmartre in 1925, a typical street scene of Paris in the '20s.
Then, "The Old Book Man" looking for a bargain perhaps at the bookstalls on the banks of the Seine, where Hemingway shopped.

Click on photos to enlarge.

Hemingway As Kid Balzac

2008-11-24T15:02:00.006-05:00

This satirical painting of Hemingway was done by his good friend and fishing companion, Waldo Peirce.
A critic had remarked that Hemingway looked like 19th century French writer Honore de Balzac.
In Peirce's painting, Hemingway appeared to be a slimmed-down version of Balzac (at least facially).
Hemingway was always comparing himself to famous writers and he probably enjoyed this - even though it was done in jest.

Boxing In Paris

2008-11-10T03:33:00.009-05:00

Cirque d' Hiver

Hemingway loved to box, it was part of his essence, essential to the core of his personality. (That is Hem in the top photo.)
He was a good amateur boxer, even if he embellished his prowess, as he did with most things masculine.
In the preface to "A Movable Feast", Hemingway tells about the boxing at the Stade Anastasie, and the "great twenty-round fights at the Cirque d' Hiver." He was fond of most sports and outdoor activity, but boxing was one of the things - like bullfighting, that was at the top of the list.

Harry's New York Bar

2008-11-03T07:09:00.012-05:00

Harry's New York Bar, 5 rue Daunou (sank roo doe noe, to the Yanks), was a popular hangout for American expats, including Hemingway. Ernest would often spar at a nearby gym with Harry holding Hemingway's towel.
It was particularly popular for those fleeing prohibition America. Harrys inventions included: The White Lady, 1919, The Bloody Mary, 1921, and the Harry's Pick Me Up, in 1923.
In 1924, Harry's started its first presidential straw poll for the American expats.
That year, Republican Calvin Coolidge beat Democrat John W. Davis.

Eugene Atget's Paris In The 1920's

2008-10-30T08:25:00.013-04:00

Prostitute, Paris

Cafe, Paris, 1924 6AM

Eugene Atget (1857-1927) was one of the most artistic photographers of Paris in the early years of the 1900's. He was also a skilled technician of the craft.
He was orphaned when he was seven years old and went to sea as a cabin boy on the Transatlantic. He gave up the sea after several voyages across the Atlantic and became an actor, where he performed in mostly second-rate shows in secondary roles.
He knew that he could make a living with a camera selling scenes to artists who needed a fixed image to study as they painted. He sold his work to the artists of Montparnasse.
He was a bohemian at heart and he moved to Montparnasse to live in the "art colony" there. He was a neighbor of Man Ray, and a contemporary of Matisse, and Picasso.

Some More Cafe Life

2008-08-10T21:05:00.009-04:00

The sidewalk cafes of Paris and the circle of friends that Hemingway met there is a central theme to "A Moveable Feast."
He did much of his most productive writing sitting in a cafe with his blue notebooks and a few pencils and a pocket knife to keep them sharp. The walk from his apartment or just a stroll through Paris to the cafe were stimulants for a good day's work.
His first published short stories were written that way and his beginning of "The Sun Also Rises" started there, too.
The painting is called "Hemingway's Paris," and is courtesy of Maranda Pleasant of Big Modern Art.

F.Scott Fitzgerald

2008-07-26T00:35:00.011-04:00

Scott Fitzgerald, was perhaps the most famous of the Jazz Age writers, (he supposedly coined the phrase himself). F. Scott Fitzgerald embodied the spirit of the Roaring Twenties. He staked his claim as the voice of his generation with his first novel, "This Side of Paradise" (1920), and later with "The Great Gatsby" (1925).
The Saint Paul, Minnesota native spent a lot of time visiting Paris in the 1920's with his wife Zelda, and their daughter Scottie.
Fitzgerald was a fan of Hemingway's early work and Hemingway loved "The Great Gatsby." Fitzgerald was to become a good friend (if a difficult one) of Hem's and the two had quite a few interesting and humorous moments in France.
Fitzgerald would also help Hemingway in getting his writing published.
Hemingway devoted quite a bit of space in "A Moveable Feast" to Fitzgerald, their time together, and Hemingway's not too flattering opinion of Zelda's influence on Fitzgerald's career.

Bicycle Racing At The Velodrome

2008-07-13T19:14:00.014-04:00

After Ernest gave up horseracing, he discovered cycling and liked it more than betting on the horses.
A friend of his, Mike Ward, told him that he used to bet on the horses but he'd found something better, bicycle racing.
In "A Moveable Feast" Ernest wrote: "I have started many stories about bicycle racing but have never written one that is as good as the races are both on the indoor tracks and on the roads."
" French is the only language it has ever been written in properly and the terms are all French and that is what makes it hard to write. Mike was right about it, there is no need to bet. But that comes at another time in Paris."

Running Of The Bulls

2008-07-07T09:26:00.008-04:00

This week it is the "running of the bulls" in Pamplona, Northern Spain, at the Festival of San Fermin. Young men have been participating in this ceremony since the 1600's, but Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" published in 1926, made it the event that it is today.
Gertrude Stein recommended to Hemingway that he take a vacation there to help him "clear his head" and concentrate on the business of writing a novel.
These photos are from 1925, one year before he finished his novel.
Top photo: Hemingway on the left, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley, Don Stewart and Pat Guthrie.
(If you click on the bottom photo, you will see Ernest just in front of the bull as he participates in "the amateurs.")

Deco Paris

2008-06-21T03:06:00.009-04:00

Palais d'Hiver

Night life in Hemingway's Paris, art deco style.

Bloomsday

2008-06-14T18:46:00.008-04:00

In honor of "Bloomsday" - June 16th - a photo of James Joyce, the creator of Leopold Bloom and Bloom's world in "Ulysses."

Ulysses For Dummies

Bal-Musette

2008-03-31T19:25:00.010-04:00

When Ernest and Hadley lived at 74 rue Cardinale Lemoine, a Bal-Musette was in the basement. Bal-Musette was a style of French music that was popular with the working class and the cafe where the music was played was called A Bal Musette. The music had a unique style that incorporated an accordian-like instrument to produce a distinctive style of music. Cafes frequented by Italians had a similar style of music but they had a different musical instrument that produced different tones. These cafes later became places to hear jazz and the tango and many other new styles of music. More at Wikipedia

Bal-Musette

1920's Paris In The Jazz Age

2008-03-10T15:23:00.005-04:00

(I added this post because YouTube had stopped running the film clip just before this one. Well, I guess your cards, letters & calls of complaint worked, because (perhaps fearing unrest) YouTube has re-released the clip.) Gosh, can it get much better than this?
This is part of the old introduction to the above clip:
It will give you a flavor of the times if not as much of the personalities involved from the "Lost Generation."
(It ends rather abruptly!)

1920's Paris In Film Clips

2008-02-18T04:41:00.006-05:00

rue Mouffetard

2008-01-22T14:46:00.000-05:00

A photo of the rue Mouffetard, a Paris street full of markets and stalls. The Hemingways shopped here when they lived in their apartment on rue Cardinale Lemoine.
In "A Moveable Feast", Hemingway called it, "that wonderful crowded market street which led into the Place Contrescarpe."
(It is also where Amelie shopped.) Click on photo to enlarge.

What To Add, What To Add?

2007-12-17T18:42:00.000-05:00

Gargoyle on Notre Dame, Paris

Back To Italy

2007-10-30T02:48:00.001-04:00

Ernest first went to Europe as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross during World War I. (The top photo shows him in 1918.) He passed through Paris and other parts of France on his way to Italy and was impressed with the city. He was sent to the Italian front to evacuate soldiers wounded in fighting with Austrian troops. He was stationed in a town called Fossalta, not far from Mestre and Venice. His area of operation was along the Piave River, an area that was seeing heavy fighting. He was wounded by a mortar shell (over 200 pieces of shrapnel were removed from his body) and was sent to a hospital near Milan to recover. He promptly fell in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky. It was a brief affair, but one that Hemingway would talk about and embellish considerably. He also added quite a bit of drama and heroism to his war service experiences.

After the war, Ernest returned home, leaving from Genoa, with a brief trip to Naples for his first trip to Southern Italy. He arrived home to a hero's welcome and began to court Hadley Richardson.

After he and Hadley had married they moved to Paris so he could try his hand at writing. He was doing some travelling for The Star as its foreign correspondent and getting to see more of Europe. In 1922, he decided to take Hadley to Italy for a month's vacation to show her the places of his adventures.

First they went to Milan and to Biffi's cafe in the Galleria, a great indoor shopping mall and one of the places Ernest frequented with his nurse, Agnes. They travelled to Mestre, then Schio, Fossalta, and the Piave River, but he was disappointed that everything had changed. He had wanted to impress Hadley with scenes of ruin and destruction and privation, but the damage had all been cleaned up in the years after the war.
His second novel, "A Farewell to Arms", is based on his adventures in the war and his affair with his nurse during his recuperation in Milan.

Fishing In Spain

2007-09-28T00:33:00.000-04:00

Hemingway loved to fish, and on his fourth trip to Pamplona he did some trout fishing in the Irati River in the Pyrenes.
After the Festival of San Fermin he and Hadley, Robert McAlmon, and the Smiths went into the mountains in Basque country around Burquete to relax a bit after the bullfights. Hemingway fished with worms as bait while the party had wine and cheese as they tried their luck.
This little day trip is a famous scene in "The Sun Also Rises."

Some Color

2007-09-15T16:10:00.000-04:00

Some Color to break up the blog. The Seine in Winter in the 1920's

First Major Publisher

2007-08-20T02:01:00.003-04:00

Hemingway's earliest publications were a small pamphlet "Three Stories and Ten Poems" and a small book issued in Paris by Three Mountain Press, "In Our Time". The latter was the book that Edmund Wilson read and admired and that F. Scott Fitzgerald liked so much that he recommended its author to his own publisher, Charles Scribners and Sons.
Only 1335 copies were printed.
The stories had an absolutely new style, a terse, staccato style that became his trademark.
Interestingly, all of the title words on the jacket are in lower case print.

Ernest In Pamplona, 1927

2007-07-25T03:23:00.001-04:00

This is Hemingway with a bull in the Summer of 1927. The photo was taken outside of Pamplona, Spain, a town that was recommended to Hemingway by Gertrude Stein. It is in Northern Spain, just South of the French border. The famous "running of the bulls" is held here every year during the Festival of San Fermin.
Pamplona and Hemingway's vacations there were the setting and inspiration for his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises."
Another view

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Hemingway's Birthday

2007-07-21T06:59:00.000-04:00

Well it's not a Paris shot, but I thought something should be added for his birthday.
Ernest Miller Hemingway; born in Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 1899.

They Drank A Lot

2007-07-05T15:42:00.000-04:00

Cafe De Paris

Paris had many appeals for the expats of the 1920s. It had a liberal atmosphere for artists and attracted painters, poets, and writers from all over the world. It was cheap to live there, it was an exciting, beautiful city and there was no prohibition on alcohol. In the US, Prohibition (1920-1933) was in full swing and people would go to extremes to get a drink - including moving to another country - if you could afford it.
This fact is believed to have been responsible for many of the Americans in the "lost generation" to decide to come to Paris.
In A Moveable Feast, cafe society was the important meeting ground for Hemingway and his artist friends to meet their contemporaries, discuss their work, and drink until their money ran out.

Hemingway And Hadley

2007-06-25T04:10:00.000-04:00

A Moveable Feast is not just about Hemingway learning to perfect his style of writing & living the Bohemian life - it is a love story about his first wife, Hadley.
He was married four times and had many affairs, but his "book of sketches" is saturated with sketches of Hadley and the things that they did together.
In this 1922 photo they are in Chamby, Switzerland, a favorite spot for them in the winter.
A photo of Hadley from an older post

HERE

KIKI

2007-06-10T02:53:00.002-04:00

A young American named Alice Ernestine Prin (October 2, 1901 – April 29, 1953), was an artists' model, nightclub singer, actress, and painter. She called herself Kiki, and that was how she was known to Hemingway and members of "The Lost Generation." She was also known as the Queen of Montparnasse, and Kiki de Montparnasse. Like Josephine Baker, she embodied the "Flapper" spirit of Paris in the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Hemingway wrote the introduction to her autobiography in 1929,(he had known her since 1921). Hemingway's introduction was also published separately as a pamphlet. The book was banned in the US until the 1970s. It is believed by some scholars that he copied her style in writing A Moveable Feast; some think it was just the idea of writing memoirs of Paris that he copied.
The photo of Kiki is by Man Ray - a long time employer and companion.

Paris Street Scene, 1925

2007-06-05T00:27:00.000-04:00

Paris Street circa 1925

A typical Paris street view in Hemingway's time there - this is from 1925.

Ernest At Home

2007-05-27T23:44:00.006-04:00

Ernest in front of the fire at the apartment above the sawmill, 113 rue Notre Dame des Champs. He is holding his son, Bumby, in the second shot. These photos are from 1924.

Josephine Baker

2007-05-14T09:14:00.003-04:00

Josephine Baker became the toast of Paris when she danced the Charelston with her jazz review, "Le Tumulte Noir." Parisians, and American expats loved the young American and her style of dance.

The Art Deco poster is representative of the graphics of the era. It depicts the night life and cosmpolitan atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s. Art Deco took its name from the 1925 Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris.

Some Of The Lost Generation

2007-04-20T23:48:00.000-04:00

The Lost Generation: Hemingway and the circle of ex-pat friends he later incorporated in The Sun Also Rises. Top photo includes, Harold Loeb, the model for Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises, on the left, Hemingway in the center and Hadley on the right.
In the bottom photo: Hemingway on the left, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden; Hadley, Don Stewart and Pat Guthrie.
Writing the book, Hemingway thought of himself as the Jake Barnes character, Lady Duff Twysden was Brett, Pat Guthrie was Mike Cambell, and as mentioned, Harold Loeb was Robert Cohn.

Hemingway At Shakespeare And Company

2007-04-08T18:55:00.000-04:00

Sylvia Beach standing outside of her bookstore,
Shakespeare And Company. She was one of Hemingway's staunchest friends and supporters. She lent him books, money, and encouragement.

Ernest inside Shakespeare And Company in 1921.

Picasso And Gertrude Stein

2007-03-25T23:24:00.002-04:00

Pablo Picasso was one of Gertrude Stein's favorite artists and social contacts in Paris.

Gertrude Stein is shown sitting in front of a portrait of her painted by Picasso. The photo was taken by Man Ray in 1922. More on Miss Stein and Hemingway can be found in an earler post

Jules Pascin

2007-03-04T23:44:00.000-05:00

Woman at Her Toilet
Jules Pascin was a good friend of Hemingway. He was a working artist and a regular of the Left Bank cafe circuit. Like Hemingway, he usually only went out to drink after getting in a good day's work. They frequently met at the Dome Cafe, a cafe Hemingway liked because many of the regulars were artists that had worked at their craft that day and were not just out to be "seen." (In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway devotes a short chapter to his friend, called: With Pascin at the Dome.)

Robert McAlmon

2007-02-22T22:55:00.003-05:00

Robert McAlmon (on the left with Hemingway) was one of the wealthier American expats in Paris. He married into his wealth. He was a poet and writer who wanted to start a publishing house for new writers. He started Contact Editions and used Shakespeare & Co. as his office.
He met Hemingway and the two became friends even though the relationship had its stormy times.
They travelled to Spain together for Ernest's first exposure to bullfighting - in the photo above they are in the Spanish town of Ronda in the bullring there.
The top photo shows Hemingway's first published work - published by McAlmon in 1923.
The short stories were: My Old Man, Out of Season, and Up in Michigan.

Ernest In Switzerland

2007-01-06T01:34:00.000-05:00

Ernest and Hadley liked to get out of the damp cold of Paris in the winter for the clean air of alpine Switzerland and Austria.
They'd rent a cabin or find a hotel to use as a base camp to ski and hike from.
Ernest always ended up with skin browned by the high altitude sun.
This photo is from 1927.

The Banks Of The Seine

2006-12-27T01:03:00.000-05:00

The Pont-Neuf, Paris

The Pont-Neuf, one of Hemingway's regular walking routes as he explored the Seine and its inhabitants. He loved the Notre Dame area, it was close to the booksellers and then he might sit on the grass and eat his lunch as he watched the fishermen.

Hemingway The Young Journalist

2006-11-26T20:19:00.000-05:00

Ernest's passport from late 1921. He was going to Paris with Hadley and the passport was provided by the Toronto Star newspaper. He was going to be their foreign correspondent in Paris.
He was slow in beginning his work for the Star. It took him two months to mail in his first articles. That soon became about two a week. He wrote about Swiss tourism, German inflation, tuna fishing at Vigo, the election of Pope Pius XI, Clemenceau's place in French history, a book review ( his first) of a novel set in Africa; about thirty articles from february untill the end of March, 1922.

First Novel Published

2006-11-18T17:36:00.000-05:00

Fired with the fictional possibilities that he saw during his visit to the Pamplona bullfights in 1925, Hemingway started translating them into a novel soon after leaving the Spanish town. Within roughly two months, the first draft of what would eventually be titled The Sun Also Rises was done. Although this work is a classic today, one reviewer charged, at its publication in 1926, that Hemingway was hiding his talents "under a bushel of sensationalism and triviality." Many others, however, disagreed. One critic claimed that its "lean, hard narrative prose" put a good deal of "literary English to shame," and yet another noted that the novel contained the best dialogue to be found in contemporary fiction.

The Little Book of Sketches

2006-10-29T01:04:00.000-05:00

A fine example of "A Moveable Feast". I love the artwork on the dustjacket. It's hard for me to say exactly when this edition came out, but 1964 was the first publication date. Hemingway worked on AMF from the fall of 1957 to the spring of 1958. He worked primarily at his home in Cuba. It centers on the Paris years of 1921 -1926. It was called the Paris sketchbook as he worked on the chapters, digging up the memories from years ago. His fourth wife edited it after his death. It was published by Scribners.

A Favorite View For Hemingway

2006-10-11T00:35:00.000-04:00

Photo courtesy Carlos

Lisbon Weekly Photo

A routine part of Hemingway's Paris years was walking down the Boulevard du Montparnasse to the intersection of rue de L'Observetoire where the La Closerie de Lilas cafe is located. It was one of his favorite spots to write, eat and drink. Hemingway would sit outside after a good days work or to be alone with his thoughts. He would often gaze at the statue of Marshal Ney. He admired the courage of Ney and writes quite often about him and the Lilas in "A Moveable Feast."

Hemingway Preferred This One

2006-10-03T22:24:00.001-04:00

The second of Henry Strater's portraits of Hemingway. Ernest preferred this one.
Photo is courtesy of the Hemingway collection at the JFK Library, Boston.

Portrait Of Hemingway in Paris

2006-10-01T21:16:00.000-04:00

Shortly after arriving in Paris, Ernest met Henry Strater, another American expat with literary interests.
Strater was interested in boxing and tennis as was Hemingway. He was a Princeton graduate and he had already become a friend of F. Scott Fitzgeralds. So, another connection to the "Lost Generation."
It was only natural that Hemingway and Strater should become friends.
Strater painted this portrait in 1922, although Strater claims in was 1923. Hemingway didn't like it very much.

The Family In The Paris Years

2006-09-06T00:36:00.000-04:00

Hadley, "Bumby", and Ernest in Schruns, Austria, Spring, 1926. Bumby was born
John Hadley Niconor Hemingway, in October, 1923.
Both Ernest and Hadley wanted the baby to be born on American soil, so they sailed to Canada to make connections to Oak Park, Illinois, the Hemingway family home. Bumby was born on October 9, 1923 in Oak Park, while Ernest was rushing home from a journalism assignment in New York. Ernest never forgave the editor of the Toronto Star, Harry Hindmarsh, for sending him on that assignment.
The baby was named in honor of his mother and the Spanish matador Villalta.
In the photo the family was in Schruns for their winter vacation. They preferred the alpine climate to Paris in the winter.
Ernest was using the vacation to rewrite "The Sun Also Rises."

Losing All

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Gare de Lyon Station

In December of 1922, Ernest was in Lausanne for The Star covering the peace conference trying to settle a dispute between Greece and Turkey.

He was trying to get Hadley to come down. She didn't want to fly through the mountains in the winter so she took the train from the Gare de Lyon station.
She decided to take all of Ernest's manuscripts except for "Up in Michigan" which was in a drawer somewhere in the apartment, and "My Old Man" which was in the mail to a publisher. She thought this would be a wonderful surprise for Ermest - she wanted to break up the tedium that he usually felt at conferences.

She grabbed all of his fiction and poetry that she could find. She hoped to please him by bringing his manuscripts so he could have something to work on besides his journalism.
A porter carried her bags to the train from the taxi and the bag with the manuscripts was stolen in that brief space of time. All of Ernest's work - including the carbons; his only copies - were lost. He had to start all over again from memory. Scholars still hope that the suitcase will be found with the original manuscripts intact.

John Dos Passos

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Left to right in the winter photo from Vorarlberg, March, 1926: Frau Lent, Ernest, Dos Passos, and Gerald Murphy.

John Dos Passos was another American of "The Lost Generation." He was an ambulance driver in Italy like Hemingway in World War I. They actually met and chatted in the Piave campaign, but they didn't keep in touch.
He spent time in Paris where he met Hemingway again and the other American expat writers and artists. He was always travelling, looking for adventurous situations to observe and write about. He is believed to be "the pilot fish" that hemingway mentions in "A Moveable Feast." The person that showed up before "the rich" came & spoiled a relatively unknown place. Dos Passos was a pilot fish for the Murphys.

He is said to have travelled more to seek out adventure in conflicts and in social situations than even Hemingway. He wrote 42 books and was quite a painter with over 400 works of art to his credit.

Some Paris Color

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Aux premieres loges I

Transatlantic Review

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Ford Madox Ford's little magazine. Hemingway was both a contributor and editor.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson was one of the most influential people in Hemingway's early years as a writer, before he left for Paris.
Ernest was living with a friend, Y.K. Smith in a seven room apartment house in Chicago.
He landed a job editing a monthly magazine called The Cooperative Commonwealth.
Anderson lived near the apartment and was a welcome visitor. When Hadley and Ernest were thinking of getting married and going to Italy, Anderson said they ought to go to Paris instead. Anderson wrote letters of introduction for Ernest to Gertrude Stein and Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Co.
Anderson even recommended the Hotel Jacob for when the Hemingway's landed in France and an introduction to Lewis Galantiere who helped them find the apartment at 74, rue du Cardinal Lemoine.

Ford Madox Ford

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Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound in Paris.
Ford believed in Hemingway's talent and made him a contributor and then an editor of The Transatlantic Review.
In "A Moveable Feast," Hemingway doesn't seem to be too pleased
with Ford's physical appearance or personal hygiene. It appears to
have been an odd relationship.

Pamplona

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This photo is from 1925, Ernest is in front of the bull; in the white pants and dark sweater.
He first went in 1923 after Gertrude Stein mentioned the Festival of San Fermin in Northern Spain as a good change of pace for him. He went for the second time in 1924 & again in 1927.

Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound was a poet by profession, but he was a generous adviser by instinct, and many a writer, among them T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, benefited from his artistic counsel, encouragement, and editing. Pound met Hemingway early in 1922 and quickly took him on as a protégé. From Pound, Hemingway learned "to distrust adjectives" and received valuable guidance in how to compress his words into precise images. Many years later, Hemingway called Pound "a sort of saint" and said he was "the man I liked and trusted the most as critic."With a recommendation from Ezra Pound, Ford Maddox Ford let Hemingway edit his fledgling literary magazine: The Transatlantic Review. In recommending Hemingway to Ford, Pound said "...He's an experienced journalist. He writes very good verse and he's the finest prose stylist in the world."
Ford published some of Hemingway's early stories, including "Indian Camp" and "Cross Country Snow" and generally praised the younger writer. The magazine lasted only a year and a half (until 1925), but allowed Hemingway to work out his own artistic theories and to see them in print in a respectable journal.

The Seine

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The Seine, Paris

In "A Moveable Feast" Hemingway has a chapter called People of the Seine. This is the same chapter where he talks about the sellers of used books on the quais.
He mentions that he likes to walk from 113 rue Notre Dame des Champs down to the park on the Seine at Notre Dame. He would buy a bottle of wine, some bread and a sausage, and eat and relax watching the fisherman.
They fished for anything but a good catch was a sardine-like fish called coujon. He said they were delicious fried whole and that he could eat a plateful. They were called fritures cooked that way.
When he had the money he would go to a restaurant called La Peche Miraculeuse and eat coujons served with a white wine. He said the scene was right out of a Sisley painting and a story by Maupassant.

Hemingway In 1925

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This was the rear cover
of "The Sun Also Rises."
He wrote the first draft
In two months after their
trip to Pamplona to see
the bullfights in the Festival
of San Fermin.

A Sidewalk Cafe

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En terrasse

Paris As Art

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Paris

Hemingway Publicity Photo

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Hemingway, 1928, in a photo taken by Helen Breaker. This was one of a group of publicity photos that his publisher - Scribners - wanted taken. According to Dorothy Parker, women who saw these pictures turned "all of a quiver," and she worried that their publication drew too much attention away from Hemingway's virtues as a writer.

They Wintered In The Alps

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Gstaad, Berner Oberland

Almost as soon as they found their first apartment
they traveled to the Alps for a few weeks of skiing.
This became a ritual, wintering in the Swiss and Austrian
Alps to escape the dreariness of Paris in the winter.

Looking Out From The First Apartment

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A photo taken out of the
window of 74 rue du Cardinal
Lemoine; possibly Hemingway
took this shot himself.
His work room was around the
corner at 39 rue Descartes.

Hadley

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Hadley Richardson in 1928. Married for less than 6 years to Hemingway, she was 8 years older than he and had a yearly income of approximately $3,000 from a trust fund. It was a comfortable income considering the lifestyle of poverty they lived in Paris.

Books Sellers On The Seine

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Hemingway would walk the river's edge when he was through with work or needed to think something out.
It was also a good place to find books written in English that were very cheap. A lot were left behind in hotels by Americans and sold very cheaply since many were given to the booksellers for nothing by workers in the left bank hotels. They thought the bindings were badly done and how good could the content be if it was in English?

The Luxembourg Gardens

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The Jardin du Luxembourg was one of Hemingway's
favorite retreats. It was on the way to the Musee de
Luxembourg where he went to admire the Cezannes.
He would occasionally run into Gertrude Stein there
as she walked her dog.

Cycling Replaced The Horses

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After he gave up betting on the horses,
a friend, Mike Ward, told him about
the excitement of cycling. Hemingway
became a huge fan of the indoor and
outdoor cycle races and the motorcycle
races. He tried to write many stories
about cycling, but said it could only be
written about properly in French.

Hadley's Birthday Present

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"The Farm", by Joan Miro.
Hemingway and several friends
raised the 5000 francs to buy it
for Hadley's 34th birthday (1925).
A detailed description of "The Farm" & a larger image of the painting can be found at The National Gallery of Art.
(This is a PDF file.)

At The Track

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Ernest and Hadley used to go to the horse track at Auteuil to relax and possibly make some money. They also enjoyed the patch of greenery that the track provided just outside the middle of urban Paris.
Ernest found it to be hard work, as he put it; learning about the horses, the odds, jockeys, owners and track conditions. Hadley would bet on the long shots, with little study, and often with good results.
Eventually, Hemingway found that he was spending too much time and money at the track and gave it up as a bad habit. "The End of an Avocation," as he describes it in a chapter in "A Moveable Feast."

Hemingway Loved Cezanne's Work

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The Players by Cezanne.
Hemingway commented frequently on how hunger sharpened his senses. So he would go nearly every day to the Musee du Luxembourg when he couldn't afford to eat to better appreciate the Cezannes.
In "A Moveable Feast", he said he was learning something from the Cezannes that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions he was tring to put into them. He said he was learning very much, though, from the Cezannes.

The Dome Again

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Another angle of The Dome, this time a 1930s photograph.

A Bridge In Paris

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Hemingway liked to walk the banks of the Seine and the canals of Paris. He watched the barges and tugs that had smokestacks that could be lowered to pass under the bridges.
This 1920 painting is by the Georgian artist Lado Gudiashvil.

A Glimpse of Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein - on the right - with companion, Alice B. Toklas.
Her apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus was a Mecca for young artists and she seemed to have her finger on the pulse of all of the artists and expats.
She got along well with Hemingway in the early years, admiring his writing and innocence in many areas of life in Paris.
He was fond of stopping by for the companionship, food, and a chance to look at her collection of paintings. In the winter it was also a nice warm spot to drop in on.
She seemed to know everyone worth knowing and had an opinion on most if not all.

This photo is by Man Ray. Ms Stein is watching the sculptor Jo Davidson carve her "Buddha" statue in 1922.

Zelda Fitzgerald Meets Ernest at the Dingo Bar

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Zelda Fitzgerald meets Hemingway outside of the Dingo Bar and restaurant in 1925.

The Dome Cafe

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The Dome Cafe is mentioned several times in "A Moveable Feast."
"With Pascin at the Dome" is a humorous chapter. Ernest meets the painter Pascin there and two models who are sisters.
Hemingway has put in a good days work and is in a good mood. He has verbal volleys with the sisters and Pascin who is recounting his day with his models and trying to get Hemingway to join in the flirtations.

Shakespeare And Company Bookstore

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Sylvia Beach was the proprietor of Shakespeare And Company, a bookstore and more in Hemingway's Paris.
It was a cultural center for artists and particularly the American expatriate community. Hemingway used the lending library that was a part of the bookstore and the "post office" where expats had their mail forwarded .
She also provided credit to Hemingway.

The shop was located at 12 rue de L'Odeon. It was recommended to Hemingway by Sherwood Anderson, and was frequented by James Joyce (top photo with Sylvia Beach), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and many more memebers of the Paris art scene of the '20s.

Hemingway liked to say that he was her best customer at the lending library.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1927

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F. Scott Fitzgerald by Harrison Fisher, National Portrait Gallery.

Ernest in Paris, 1924

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Outside 113 rue Notre Dame des Champs. The apartment above the sawmill.

Les Deux Magots

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A Hemingway hangout, Les Deux Magots ("the two statues") at 170 Boulevard St. Germaine in the 6th arrondissement

The Lilas Cafe

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The Closerie des Lilas (which means a small enclosed lilac garden), one of Hemingway's favorite cafes and favorite places to write. It was close to his apartment at 113 rue Notre Dame des Champs. He would write in his notebooks there for hours when things were going well.

A Map of Hemingway's Area of Paris

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Hemingway did not write much at the first apartment. He took a room in a hotel around the corner at 39 rue Descartes.

Paris districts or Arrondissements

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Hemingway lived in the 6th arrondissement, at 113 rue Notre Dame des Champs.
His first apartment was at 74 rue du Cardinal Lemoine ( in the 5th arrondissement). His office was just around the corner.

Reference: Hemingway photos in the JFK Library

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http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfkl/Templates/ArchivesFindingAid.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7b4360D7A0-A04A-401B-B7B7-2BF8E2D1247C%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fHistorical%2bResources%2fArchives%2fArchives%2band%2bManuscripts%2fHemingway%2eErnest%2ffa_eh_photos%2ehtm&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest#Paris Years, 1922-1930.

Beginning

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Hi,
This is just a construction site at the moment.
I hope to add maps & descriptions of Hemingway's favorite (and, not so favorite) places in Paris in the 1920s.
If you've read "A Moveable Feast," by Hemingway perhaps you've been fascinated by the streets that he walked, the cafes he frequented and the addresses that he lived at. You probably pictured them and wondered what they really looked like, like his apartment above the sawmill and the cafe on Place St-Michel.
This is the time of year for it certainly, springtime in Paris.