Walking Paris with Henry Miller

I’ve posted some maps of the Montsouris walk and have updated the site navigation bar to provide quick access them. You can find the Montsouris map in the drop-down menu under “The Walks”. There’s a Google satellite map for this walk as well, which you’ll find linked from the same page. Should you click the [...]

Brassaï recalled that Miller visited him often at the Hôtel des Terrasses and "for hour after hour he pored over my nightly harvest of photographs" which were spread about the furniture of Brassaï's room.

Henry Miller’s first sojourn at 18 Villa Seurat began in the summer of 1931 when he spent a month as the guest of Michael Fraenkel in the ground-floor apartment (to your left). Miller slept on the floor in a corner of the living room, which he later described in The Cosmological Eye...

When The Chicago Tribune closed its Paris edition at the end of November, 1934 Alfred Perlès found himself jobless and in search of cheap lodging. In Montsouris, he discovered a “rat hole” apartment at 7 impasse du Rouet, about a five minute walk from Henry Miller’s new address in the Villa Seurat. His neighbors included [...]