![]() ![]() So, with iPhone camera in hand and referencing his Moveable Feast recollections, we spent 8 days doing a poor man’s photo essay on the subject. ![]() The fact that dining and drinking venues figured prominently in Hemingway’s Paris was an added plus for me, and dozens of marvelous shops and boutiques made Debbie’s decision an easy one. ![]() We’re always looking for a reason to return to the City of Light, so it didn’t take much to convince my angel wife, Debbie, to celebrate the occasion on a scavenger hunt of Ernest’s early Parisian haunts. Several months ago, it dawned on me that the centenary of Hemingway’s arrival in Paris was fast approaching. His posthumous memoir of that era, A Moveable Feast, remains today the handbook for seekers of that “Lost Generation”. He had also managed, through blind luck and fortuitous timing, to live through one of the seminal decades of the 20 th century in the city that was the epicenter for artists, writers and thinkers who would shape much of the rest of the century. When he departed in 1928, he had acquired a new wife, become a successful novelist, and developed a style that redefined modern literature. Ernest would call Paris his home, on and off, for the next six years. He was penniless, she had a small inheritance. He was 22, she was eight years his senior. On December 22, 1921, a young Ernest Hemingway and his new bride, Hadley, arrived in Paris. ![]()
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