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In the
Footsteps of James Joyce Paris.
[A]
Site of the recital hall of the
Salle Pleyel [252,
rue du Faubourg-Saint-
Honoré], where
Ezra
Pound sponsored a private concert attended by Joyce.
[B]
Theatre
des Champs-Elysees [13-15 ave Montaigne], (famous for being the
place of the then
scandalous first performance in 1913 of Igor Stravinsky's
Rite of
Spring) where Joyce attended George Antheil's most famous
composition
Ballet mécanique.
[C]
From 1925 to 1931, Joyce occupied a flat here [2, Square de Robiac]
during which time he wrote
Finnegan's Wake.
[D]
The
Hotel Lenox, the Joyce family's first home in
Paris for two months in 1920
[9, rue de l'Université].
[E]
Natalie
Clifford Barney's home [20, rue Jacob] often visited by Joyce.
[F]
The
Hotel Lutétia - Joyce's last residence in Paris
from October 1939 until February 1940 [45 Boulevard Raspail].
[G]
The site of
Contact Editions [8, rue de l'Odéon], a
small publishing house run
by
Robert
McAlmon. McAlmon assisted Joyce with editng and typing early
manuscripts of
Ulysses and provided financial support to
Joyce in the 1920s. Almost next door is
Sylvia
Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookshop [12,
rue de l'Odéon] which she established in 1919. Beach published and
supported Joyce throughout the 1920s. Not to be confused with the
charming bookshop of the same name [37, rue de la Bûcherie].
[H]
Studio of
Jo
Davidson, the American sculptor [14, avenue du Maine]. Joyce was
a casual viitor.
[I]
Joyces lived here [6 rue Blaise Desgoffe] from August 1923 until
October 1924.
[J]
The apartment owned by
Valery
Larbaud [73, rue Cardinal Lemoine] who, as well as financially
supporting Joyce, helped translate
Ulysses. Joyce lived
next door at number 71 for a short time.
[K]
Square James Joyce. Named in 1999, this square is
bordered by streets named after Abel Gance, the film director, George
Balanchine, the ballet master and Valéry Larbaud.