Emily Dickinsons window.

Houses of Simone de Beauvoir.

Simone de Beauvoir was born above the Café de la Rotonde in Paris in 1908

Royal-Bretagne

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The writer Simone de Beauvoir spent the academic year of 1936-1937 based at the hotel then named Royal-Bretagne living there with Sartre when he was in Paris at No. 11bis. Today, this art-deco hotel has another name and looks more upmarket than it did in the 1930s.

Nearly opposite De Beauvoir’s hotel was the famous Bobino music hall at No. 20, sadly demolished in 1985 and turned into a Mercure hotel with a new Bobino now at the back. De Beauvoir and Sartre saw two singers there in 1932, singing anarchist and anti-militarist songs.

Le Dôme  

Location: 108 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 75014 Paris. 

Simone de Beauvoir en  Jean-Paul Sartre maakten het tot hun hoofdkwartier. Ze gebruikte er het ontbijt, werkte in een box  achterin het café. Vreemdelingen uit allerlei landen discussieerden er met elkaar. Modellen, vrouwelijke artiesten, meisjes die door de een of ander werden onderhouden. Er ontstond een soort zwijgende band tussen ons en de andere stamgasten. De bloei van het Leven blz. 280.

 Mistral Hotel

24 Cels Street

1937 tot september 1939

Simone huurt hier een kamer (en Sartre een andere) 

 Ze geniet van een ontbijt in de Three Musketeers Brewery, 77 Maine Avenue

 Ze wil schrijver worden en werkt aan haar eerste roman, De gast

Hotel du Denmark

 Rue Vavin 21

Oktober 1939

21 Vavin Street, Simone de Beauvoir in het Denmark Hotel

 In juni 1940 verliet ze de hoofdstad omdat de Duitsers Parijs binnen vielen

 28e  juni keerde ze terug

Haar spullen waren weggegeven

Zij ging kort wonen in het appartement van haar oma 

 Weer terug in Hotel Danemark tijdens de strenge winter van 1940-41. 

En octobre 1939, la voilà à l’hôtel du Danemark, 21 rue Vavin. En juin 1940, elle quitte la capitale, puis la regagne le 28 lorsqu’il apparaît que l’on peut y habiter en relative sécurité. Elle retrouve alors le studio de sa grand-mère et passe ses après-midis d’été à lire Hegel à la Bibliothèque nationale, rue de Richelieu.  Elle regagne la chaleur d’une chambre à l’hôtel du Danemark pendant le très rigoureux hiver 1940-41. Elle donne à nouveau des cours au lycée Camille-Sée, 11 rue Léon-Lhermitte. terresdecrivains/Simone-de-BEAUVOIR-a-Paris

Mijn kamer bevalt me best. Er hangen heel dikke rode gordijnen en ik kan er 's avonds het licht aan doen. Uit: De Bloei van het Leven, blz. 409.

 HOTEL MISTRAL

After being released from his prisoner-of-war status in 1940, Sartre returned to the Hotel Mistral, where de Beauvoir also moved back to. In 1941 the first meeting of the intellectual resistance group, ‘Socialism and Freedom’ (Socialisme et Liberté), was held in Simone de Beauvoir’s room.

Rue Dauphine No.33

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In 1942 Simone de Beauvoir was staying at the Hôtel d’Aubusson, also at No. 33, when she was forced out of teaching. The left/existentialist intellectual bar, Le Tabou, that had been the Bar vert in the Rue Jacob was reopened in the basement by Juliette Greco for rehearsals in 1946 before opening to the public the following year.

Outside No. 7 there is a plaque on the wall. This is where in 1937 Picasso painted Guernica in his roof-top studio for the Spanish Republic’s hall in that year’s Paris International Exhibition. In vain Picasso left a will stating that the work would only be returned to Spain when it was again a Republic. leftinparis/de-beauvoir

Hotel Louisiana

Robert Doisneau, Paris, 1950 / St Germain des Prés - Hotel La Louisiane (Rue de Seine)

Hotel La Lousiane is a hotel on Rue de Seine in Paris, France. Constructed in 1823 by a former 

officer in Napoleon’s army, the hotel later became a home base to jazz musicians and writers

beginning in the 1920s. Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Jean-Paul Sartre (room 10), 

Simone de Beauvoir (room 68), Henri Miller and many more.

"I'd never lodged anywhere that fulfilled my dreams as that place did; I would have happily stayed

 there for the rest of my life. At the other end of the corridor, Sartre had a tiny room where he lived

 in a state of asceticism that never ceased to shock his visitors: he didn't even have any books."

In the spring of '44, when the Allies landed in Normandy, some of the hotel guests used to go

 and sunbathe on the roof terrace. "I couldn't bear the hot sun beating down on the hard cement, "

 wrote Beauvoir, "but in the evenings, I liked to go up there and sit and read or chat. "

Simone de Beauvoir, Hôtel La Louisiane, Paris, 1946

More interesting facts on cocosse-journal

Rue Bonaparte Nr 42

 

Sartre 4-e verdieping

from 1945 to 1962

• Home of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, .^[4] 
• During this period Sartre was involved in establishing the quarterly literary and political review, Les Temps Modernes (Modern Times) as well as publishing some of his best-known works including: Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands), Les Chemins de la Liberté (The Roads to Freedom), the Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason), and Les Mots (The Words), La Mort dans l'Âme (Troubled Sleep - also known as: Iron in the soul), The Devil and the Good Lord / Le diable et le bon dieu, Kean, Les séquestrés d'Altona (The Condemned of Altona).

11 Rue de la Bucherie

LATE OCTOBER 1948: de Beauvoir moves to 11 rue de la Bucherie

Simone de Beauvoir lived at  from 1948- 1955

Writing some of her most inportant works

The Second Sex

The Mandarins

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Force of Circumstance

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Nelson Algren's residence in Chicago

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Algren lived on West Wabansia Avenue in a building demolished to build the Kennedy Expressway, and then from 1959 to 1975 at this Evergreen Avenue property. There he occupied the third floor of the brick three-flat. literary-landmarks. The expressways tore into the neighborhoods, knocking down the building on Wabansia where he spent his most productive years. 

When Simone de Beauvoir first visited Chicago in 1947, she called on author Nelson Algren, who lived just down the street from St. Stan’s at 1532 West Wabansia. Her impression of his home:

He lived in a hovel, without a bathroom or a refrigerator, alongside an alley full of steaming trash cans and flapping newspapers; this poverty seemed refreshing, after the heavy odour of the dollars in the big hotels and the elegant restaurants, which I found hard to take. rostenkowski-curve 

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1958 W. Evergreen Ave.
Chicago, Illinois, 60622
United States

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nelsonalgren

Nelson Algren’s Indiana getaway

Nelson Algren bought his beach cottage in Miller, Indiana in 1950, partially from the proceeds from the film rights to “The Man with a Golden Arm. Algren and Simone de Beauvoir drank, swam, hiked, made love, wrote and enjoyed the dunes area just east of Gary only forty-five minutes from downtown Chicago.

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The studio of Simone de Beauvoir,

Rue Schoelcher 12 bis, Montparnasse, Paris

Simone de Beauvoir in her studio, rue Schoelcher 12 bis, Montparnasse, Paris, March 1986.

Bettina Flitner/National Museum of Women in the Arts