Tuesday, July 08, 2008

News at Eleven: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir

were holding their already famous philosophical debates at a table at the nearby Café de Flore. Richard Wright had arrived a few years earlier, as had Saul Bellow and a young, and relatively unknown and impoverished James Baldwin, who was living at the Hotel Verneuil, a cheap, slightly run-down hotel nearby.

from The Wall Street Journal: Why the Expats Left Paris
also The Wall Street Journal: Bonjour Tristesse

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