Paris
Hemingway and Friends
Distance: About 3.6 miles, about 5.8 km
Start and Finish: Montparnasse Bienvenüe Métro Station
What naturally draws young people full of disillusionment, ennui, and apathy but the comfort of friends amongst good drinks. This running route allows you to follow in the drinking and hang-out steps of some the most famous minds from the Lost Generation. You'll start off by passing the ivy covered Musée du Montparnasse, where Russian painter Marie Vassilieff operated a cantina that Picasso frequented. Then you'll get to pass where a bar used to exist that Hemingway and F. Scott-Fitzgerald would spend time in together (it has since changed names). Then off past a cafe where most of "The Sun Also Rises" was written. Maybe you'll be inspired to do some philosophical thinking along the way.... or just find your new favorite bar.
To good art, good literature, good company, and good booze! Bottom's up!
- Starting at the Montparnasse Bienvenüe Métro Station, run south to Av. du Maine, and take a left down to Musée du Montparnasse. You'll pass the modern skyscraper too.
- Turn up Rue du Départ and turn right on Blvd Edgar Quinet to do a lap around the cemetery.
- When you get back, turn up Rue Delambre. At No.9 is where dancer Isadora Duncan lived, at No.10 there used to be the Dingo Bar (different bar now) where Hemingway drank with Scott-Fitzgerald. Continue passed Blvd Montparnasse and don't turn left until Rue Notre-Dame. Follow that on to Raspail going north.
- Turn on Huysmans and again right on Rue d'Assas, down past the park, past the artist Zadkine's museum, and the Closerie des Lilas- Hemingway's favorite place to write (left in the photo). Continue until the beautiful fountain done by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, with its women symbolizing the Four Corners of the World.
- Turn right up Blvd du Montparnasse all the way back to the metro stop. You'll pass Le Select at No. 99, which is where Hemingway wrote most of "The Sun Also Rises"
Posted by 2fastRichard
