?? existentialist paris ?? :)

I%26#39;m leaving for Paris for my uni-project and I%26#39;m supposed to give one day presentation on %26#39;Existentialist Paris%26#39;. The idea of the project is to VISUALIZE PARIS, so I need to show all the places anyhow connected to existentialism/displaying it, like for example %26#39;Cafe Flore%26#39; or %26#39;Les Deux Magots%26#39; where Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir used to hang out. It would mean a lot to me if any of You could suggest where to go and what to see - it may be just a little, unnoticable thing that visualize the post-war Paris and the intelectual and artistic atmosphere of that times.. Thanks!!

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Both had education at la Sorbonne and both are buried in Cimitiere de Montparnasse...

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I recommend you the expo about Sartre on BNF (Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand). All you need is here: http://expositions.bnf.fr/sartre/index.htm

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Although sartre and de beauvoir are most often connected with the Flore and Les Deux Magots, I think they both also spent time with their friends at Le Select and La Coupole - and no doubt others. A good biography should help here.

Also there was a club called Le Tabou, which I think no longer exists, which was in the Hotel d%26#39;Aubusson. I think the hotel still exists in the rue Christine.

Sartre and de Beauvoir both lived for a period in the Hotel la Louisianne in the rue de Seine, Sartre in room 10, de Beauvoir in room 68. De Beauvoir wrote about this hotel and about living there: %26quot;I%26#39;d never lodged anywhere that fulfilled my dreams as that place did; I would have happily stayed there for the rest of my life. At the other end of the corridor, Sartre had a tiny room where he lived in a state of asceticism that never ceased to shock his visitors: he didn%26#39;t even have any books.%26quot;

The Theatre du Vieux Colombier was established as a new theater space in the 30s I think. One of its most important early successes was the first production of sartre%26#39;s Huis Clos (No Exit in English).

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%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;Also there was a club called Le Tabou, which I think no longer exists, which was in the Hotel d%26#39;Aubusson. I think the hotel still exists in the rue Christine%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;

The HOTEL d%26#39;AUBUSSON at the corner of 33 rue Dauphine and rue Christine was a foundations to roof rafters conversion done to the existing building in 1995-96. About all that%26#39;s left of the original building are its exterior walls (we%26#39;re talkin%26#39; look up through a ground floor window openning and see the sky where the roof used to be). Any trace of the famous Le Tabou jazz club is long gone--except perhaps for a section of the old bar in the lounge.

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La Closerie de Lilas was another haunt of theirs, as was the Montparnasse neighborhood.

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Hi. We took a private Existentialist Tour of Paris with a great local tour company and found out lots of fascinating things, like up on the first floor of the Cafe de Flore Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre used to scribble away at separate tables, in silence. Apparently they tired of the Deux Magots and headed there. Also, there%26#39;s a shop on rue Bonaparte near the Place St. Germain des Pres, as you head down rue Bonapart it%26#39;s on your right, that sells original authenticated documents written by hand and signed by Sartre, Camus etc., ready for framing. A great souvenir but expect to pay about 250 euros and up for those.