Walk in the Footsteps of Ernest Hemingway iconic Novelist

In the 1920s, Americans flocked to Paris, where the cafes of Montparnasse served as the center of la vie de bohème for famous expats, from Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lesley M.M. Blume, author of the new Hemingway bio Everybody Behaves Badly, charts these legendary haunts.

The young journalist Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) and his bride Hadley Richardson (1891-1979) moved to Paris in 1921 and rented a 4th-floor apartment in the 5th arrondissement at 74 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, around the corner from the Place de la Contrescarpe on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève hilltop, a few miles distance from Notre-Dame cathedral.

The city, the country, and indeed the Europe they found were recovering and rebuilding after World War I. Paris was alive with art, culture and fine cuisine, the French franc was low against the US dollar, and artists and writers from Europe and the New World flocked to its creative ferment.

The Hemingways returned to Paris in January 1924 and rented an apartment at 113 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs adjacent to a sawmill and not far from Ezra Pound’s studio at 70bis on the same street. Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas’s apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus was not far away.

Paris has changed greatly in the near-century since the Hemingways first arrived. Some of what they loved about the city has gone forever, but much remains, and it’s still worthwhile to walk the streets they walked, visit the places they loved, and see what has survived from the Paris of the 1920s.

PROGRAM PRICE: $110 per person (private tour for 3 to 5 people).

Ernest Hemingway’s walking tour is scheduled May 6 and 7, 2025, starting at 4pm.
Our guided cultural walking tour pays tribute to other writers such as: Joyce, Orwell, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo. But Paris has been immortalized Hemingway in his iconic novel« A Moveable Feast » and it was featured in Woody Allen’s movie “Midnight in Paris”.