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A Moveable Feast: Top 10 literary eats in Paris

7/1/2016

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Cafe La Rotonde

 As the centre of Bohemian Paris shifted from Montmartre to Montparnasse at the start of the 20th Century, artists like Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall began to frequent La Rotonde where they brushed shoulders with Russian revolutionaries and later with Alice Prin, the singer and artists' model known as 'Kiki' or the Queen of Montparnasse. During the interwar period, the Surrealists took over along with American expat authors and members of the Lost Generation including Authur Miller, F. Scott. Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, as well as George Gershwin. 
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​Restaurant - Le Polidor

You may recognise this hole-in-the-wall from Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. In the film, it's here that Owen Wilson's character first meets Ernest Hemingway. Located in the Latin Quarter, this historic restaurant was one of the author's many haunts as it was popular with the intellectual set of his day. Over the years, everyone from Victor Hugo to James Joyce has dined at Le Polidor and it's fair to say that the cuisine hasn't changed much in that time (nor have the facilities - the toilet is 'Turkish style', which basically means a hole in the floor with foot prints to stand in).
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​​La Closerie des Lilas    

One of several Montparnasse cafés favoured by artists and intellectuals at the turn of the century - Paul Verlaine and Emile Zola and Charles Baudelaire were regulars. After World War I, La Closerie became a regular hangout for American expat authors. Here Hemingway worked on The Sun Also Rises and read Fitzgerald's manuscript of The Great Gatsby. 

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A guide to...Hemingway's Idaho

7/17/2013

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Of all the places Hemingway lived, Idaho may not rate among the most exotic.  After all, he spent most of his life in some exciting far-flung  locales, from bohemian Paris to colourful Cuba.  And yet when Hemingway first came here in 1939, Sun Valley, Idaho was for all intents and purposes still at the frontier of the Wild West. 
     
​Here in this rustic mountain community, he found great freedom (and the privacy he needed to conduct a love affair with a woman who was not yet his wife).  He first came seeking the offered free ride off of the Union Pacific Railroad executives. But when the publicity stunt passed and two marriages had come and gone, Hemingway kept coming back. Today Sun Valley still maintains its star power, providing a remote hideaway for the rich and famous. Driving here from Boise (the state capital and location of the closest major airport), the scenery hasn't changed much since Hemingway's day.  
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