![]() ![]() ![]() Stein said he could, he might take a quick detour past the looming Luxembourg Palace, through the open gate and down to 12, rue de l’Odeon: Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company bookshop. ![]() And if it were early enough, and he wasn’t too late or was coming unannounced, as Ms. By now he could see the Luxembourg Gardens at the end of the street he’d have to wait for traffic to clear around Place Edmond Rostand, but it was worth it to walk through the park, especially in the good summer weather when the young girls were out reading and the young schoolboys in shorts used sticks to direct their toy sailboats around the fountain. Then he’d be in Place du Pantheon, “windswept” he calls it in A Moveable Feast, its cobblestoned emptiness funneling into Rue Soufflot, a wide, short street full of Sorbonne students mingling at sidewalk cafes. Etienne du Montno Notre Dame, but the sort of neighborhood church where you might stop and cross yourself if you were drunk and it was late and you were on your way home to your wife. For Ernest Hemingway, the walk from his Latin Quarter flat to Gertrude Stein’s pavillon at 27, rue des Fleurs, would have been a pleasant one: down rue Moufftard until a left on rue Clovis took him past St. ![]()
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