{"id":1271,"date":"2009-07-26T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/paris-is-a-moveable-feast-and-we-are-making-the-most-of-it\/"},"modified":"2014-03-16T01:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T01:05:21","slug":"paris-is-a-moveable-feast-and-we-are-making-the-most-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/paris-is-a-moveable-feast-and-we-are-making-the-most-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris is a Movable Feast – and We Are Making the Most of It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ernest Hemingway<\/a>\u00a0is pretty passe these days, but in\u00a0his wonderful memoir<\/a>\u00a0of his time in Paris, he wrote something that returns to me every time I’m here “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.” \u00a0And so it is. \u00a0Right here it’s going to rain, and the sky is far more grey-blue forbidding than I could get the camera to record, and it’s around 4 PM and we’ve been walking since 10 AM this morning. \u00a0And we haven’t really\u00a0done<\/em>\u00a0anything – not in the way tourists go into museums and enrich themselves. \u00a0For us these streets, and the Seine, and the beautiful old buildings and boulevards – well, they’re the richest of all.<\/p>\n

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It’s pouring rain on the bookstores of\u00a0Boulevard St. Michel<\/a>\u00a0on the Left Bank near the\u00a0Sorbonne<\/a>,\u00a0but that doesn’t stop the book shoppers. Paris is a city of readers, one where great writers have been held as heroes and mourned by the city – and much of the entire nation when they died. There are many restaurants and cafes on the Left\u00a0Bank, which had been home not only to Hemingway and\u00a0Fitzgerald<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Gertrude Stein<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Sylvia Beach<\/a>\u00a0but also to\u00a0Simone de Beauvoir<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jean Paul Sartre<\/a>\u00a0and so many others. They are crammed with people all the time – whether it’s the\u00a0Deux Magots<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0Brasserie Lipp<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Cafe de Flore<\/a>\u00a0because these places have an enormous literary history and those who visit here know that these are the places to visit even if they’ve never read\u00a0The Second Sex<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0The Sun Also Rises<\/a>\u00a0or even\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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Or maybe they just know, like these two troubadours, that Paris, when you’re young, (or, hopefully, any other age) is still a gift. So many have already written better words about the indelible impact of this lovely place; I’m really just here to agree with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ernest Hemingway\u00a0is pretty passe these days, but in\u00a0his wonderful memoir\u00a0of his time in Paris, he wrote something that returns to me every time I’m here “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris … Continue reading Paris is a Movable Feast – and We Are Making the Most of It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6,7,9,78],"tags":[487,486,481,485,482,480,488,479,472,484,483,3419],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-life","category-politics","category-travel","tag-cafes","tag-deux-magots","tag-fitzgerald","tag-gatsby","tag-gertrude-stein","tag-hemingway","tag-literary-paris","tag-moveable-feast","tag-paris","tag-sartre","tag-simone-de-beauvoir","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}