6th and 7th arrondissements, by the Seine, Paris, France: Literary Île-de-France #29

7 rue des grands Augustins.

'PABLO PICASSO

VÉCUT DANS CET IMMEUBLE DE 1936 À 1955

C'EST DANS CET ATELIER QU'IL PEIGNAIT

"GUERNICA" EN 1937'

'PABLO PICASSO

LIVED IN THIS BUILDING FROM 1936 TO 1955

IT IS IN THIS WORKSHOP THAT HE PAINTED

"GUERNICA" IN 1937'.

'C'EST ICI ÉGALEMENT QUE BALZAC

SITUE L'ACTION DE SA NOUVELLE

"LE CHEF D'OUEUVRE INCONNU"'.

'IT IS HERE TOO THAT BALZAC

SITUATED THE ACTION OF HIS SHORT STORY

"THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE"'.

In rue de Seine, at the back of the Institut de France, is a small enclosed grassy area with a bust and a statue of two noted French writers:

The more evident is Voltaire.

Although Montesquieu is hiding there.

L'Hôtel, rue des Beaux-Arts, 6th arrondissement.

Oscar Wilde (1854—1900).

'OSCAR WILDE

Poète et Dramaturge

NÉ À DUBLIN

LE 15 OCTOBRE 1856

EST MORT DANS CETTER MAISON

LE 30 NOVEMBRE 1900'

'OSCAR WILDE

Poet and Playwright

BORN IN DUBLIN

15 OCTOBER 1856

DIED IN THIS HOUSE

30 NOVEMBER 1900'

 

'ICI VÉCUT

JORGE LUIS BORGES

1899 — 1986

Écrivain Argentin

LORS DE SES FRÉQUENTS SÉJOURS

À PARIS DE 1977 À 1984'

'HERE LIVED

JORGE LUIS BORGES

1899 — 1986

Argentinian Writer

DURING HIS FREQUENT STAYS

IN PARIS FROM 1977 TO 1984'

At 19 quai Malaquais, a barely visible sign around the scaffolding:

'ANATOLE FRANCE

NÉ LE 16 AVRIL 1844

QUAI MALAQUAIS NO. 19

HABITA DANS CET HÔTEL

DE 1844 À 1853'

And at 19 Quai Voltaire:

'ICI 

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

JEAN SIBELIUS

RICHARD WAGNER

OSCAR WILDE

ONT HONORÉ PARIS

DE LEVR SÉJOVR'

'L'AURORE GRELOTTANTE EN ROBE ROSE ET VERTE
S'AVANÇAIT LENTEMENT SUR LA SEINE DÉSERTE
ET LE SOMBRE PARIS, EN SE FROTTANT LES YEUX,
EMPOINGNAIT SES OUTILS, VIEILLARD LABORIEUX'.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
"Le CRÉPUSCULE du MATIN"
LES FLEURS du MAL'

Le Voltaire, the house where Voltaire died.

'VOLTAIRE

NÉ À PARIS

LE 21 NOVEMBRE 1694

EST MORT

DANS CETTE MAISON

LE 30 MAI 1778'

Guillaume Apollinaire in the 6th arrondissement, Paris, France: Literary Île-de-France #28

A representation of the church of St-Germain-dès-Près on a coin the church sells for €2 ­— it wasn't easy to take a decent shot of it with all the people milling around, plus the (gloriously relentless and really hot) September sun blanching everything.

For complicated reasons, it took Picasso many years to come up with a monument to his friend Guillaume Apollinaire, and it was not until 1959 that the bust was revealed at the entrance to the tiny Laurent Prache square, immediately next to L'Église St-Germain-des-Prés.

Surprisingly, the bust was not of Apollinaire, but an old one from 1941, of Picasso's mistress Dora Maar.

And at 202 Boulevard Saint-Germain, the building where Apollinaire lived and died:

'DANS CETTE MAISON

VÉCUT ET MOURUT

(JANVIER 1913 — 9 NOVEMBRE 1918)

LE POÈTE

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE'

And this place is now a 'Bistro Resto Café Bar' takeaway pizza place.