A Walk on the Wilde Side

"Paris was where the twentieth century was," exclaimed Gertrude Stein as to explain the unprecedented gathering of artists in the early decades of the last century.

"The city I love best in all the world," declared Hemingway who made the city his home for 7 years and the subject matter in his famous "A Movable Feast."

Like so many writers and painters, you will also be delighted by the same charming streets and cafes of the "left bank" of Paris. We will visit some of the favorite haunts of Oscar Wilde and the generation of writes he inspired and influenced. You will see the Latin Quarter known for its bookstores, schools, churches, jazz clubs, Roman ruins, publishing houses, and boutiques, which characterize bohemian Paris and formed the setting for Puccini's opera, "La Boheme."

We will start near the original home of Sylvia Beach's bookstore Shakespeare and Company. She is particularly associated with Hemingway and the publication of James Joyce's "Ulysses." Nearby lived Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Tokas who opened their home to famous expatriates, writers and artists, including Hemingway and Picasso. We will pass through the area of Saint-Sulpice church, a magnificent architectural masterpiece where both Hemingway (with his second wife) and Francis Scott Fitzgerald lived.

The "Deux Magots" and "Cafe de Flore," probably the best known cafes of Paris became the meeting places of Faulkner, Picasso, Joyce, Gide, and Apollinaire. You will also see the Procope, the oldest cafe in the world and one of Wilde's favorite, which was the meeting place of Benjamin Franklin, Danton, Robespierre, Marat, and Napoleon.

We will see where Wilde ended his days on rue des Beaux Arts and then finish up for lunch in a restaurant which is housed in the 3rd oldest building in Paris and secret Paris institution frequented by government officials, magistrates from the nearby courts and other well known personalities. The building is classified as a historic monument and is the most important remains of the Hotel des Abbees de Fecamp and the third oldest in Paris on rue Hautefeuille dating back to 1292. During the Renaissance, the building was reconstructed with interior wooden arabesque sculptures and molding and the Fleurs de Lys with a Salamander, a symbol favored by Francois 1, for exterior ornaments.

Includes
- 2 Course Lunch

Excludes
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- Personal Expenses
- Optional Activity Costs
- Tips and Gratuities

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