The most beautiful walk in the world: A pedestrian in Paris

202 Pages·2011·5.7 MB·English

by  John Baxter

The Most Beautiful Walk in the
World
A Pedestrian in Paris
John Baxter
Dedication
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WORTH WALKING FOR.
Epigraph
We cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings
—WALT WHITMAN, PIONEERS, O PIONEERS
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Map

Chapter 1 - To Walk the Walk
Chapter 2 - ‘Walking Backwards for Christmas’
Chapter 3 - What a Man’s Got to Do
Chapter 4 - Heat
Chapter 5 - Two Geese a-Roasting
Chapter 6 - The Hollywood Moment
Chapter 7 - Hemingway’s Shoes
Chapter 8 - The Importance of Being Ernest
Chapter 9 - The Boulevardier
Chapter 10 - The Murderer’s Garden
Chapter 11 - Going Walkabout
Chapter 12 - The Music of Walking
Chapter 13 - Power Walks
Chapter 14 - A Proposition at Les Editeurs
Chapter 15 - The Freedom of the City
Chapter 16 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Chapter 17 - The Opium Trail
Chapter 18 - Postcards from Paris
Chapter 19 - The Ground Beneath Our Feet
Chapter 20 - Looking for Matisse
Chapter 21 - Fish Story
Chapter 22 - The Great La Coupole Roundup
Chapter 23 - Liver Lover
Chapter 24 - Paris When It Sizzled
Chapter 25 - A Walk in the Earth
Chapter 26 - Heaven and Hell
Chapter 27 - Blue Hour Blues
Chapter 28 - The Last of Montparnasse
Chapter 29 - The Fuzz on the Peach
Chapter 30 - To Market
Chapter 31 - The Boulevard of Crime
Chapter 32 - The Gates of Night
Chapter 33 - A Little Place in the Nineteenth
Chapter 34 - A Walk in Time
Chapter 35 - Aussie in the Métro
Chapter 36 - A Touch of Strange
Chapter 37 - The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

Appendix - Paris, Mode d’Emploi (Paris, A User’s Guide)
About the Author
Also by John Baxter
Credits
An Excerpt from The Perfect Meal
First Catch Your Pansy
Copyright
Copyright
About the Publisher
Map
CAFÉS AND RESTAURANTS
1. La Coupole
2. La Rotonde
3. Le Dôme
4. Les Deux Magots
5. Café Flore
6. Brasserie Lipp
7. The Ritz Hotel
8. Dingo Bar (now Auberge de Venise) 9. Harry’s Bar
10. Les Editeurs
11. Closerie des Lilas
12. Le Balzar
13. Au Lapin Agile
14. La Fée Verte
MARKETS
15. Porte de Vanves (antiques) 16. Rue Brancion (old books) 17. Porte de
Clignancourt (antiques) 18. Marché d’Aligre (food) ART AND PAINTING
19. Rue Mazarine
20. The Louvre
21. Le Grand Palais
22. Centre Pompidou
SIGHTS
23. The Catacombs
24. The Passages (arcades) 25. Luxembourg Gardens
26. The Opera Garnier
27. La Santé Prison
28. Sacré-Coeur Cathedral
29. Notre Dame Cathedral
30. Cour de Commerce St. Andre
31. Place de la Bastille
LITERARY SITES
32. Ernest Hemingway’s apartment (74 Rue Cardinal Lemoine) 33. Ernest
Hemingway’s apartment (#6 Rue Ferou) 34. Gertrude Stein’s apartment 35. Rue
de l’Odéon (Sylvia Beach’s apartment) 36. Old Shakespeare and Company
bookshop
37. New Shakespeare and Company bookshop
38. The Panthéon (burial site of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Zola)