Walking Paris with Henry Miller

The Tribune staff and taxi drivers were joined at Gillotte’s by other denizens of the Paris nightlife, notably the local prostitutes and their pimps. It was just the sort of setting, bringing together the Paris literati with the working class and demi-mondaine, all mixed with copious quantities of food and wine, at which Miller was in his element.

  In March of 1932, Henry Miller lived at the Hôtel Cronstadt for about two weeks while waiting for repairs to be completed on his new apartment in Clichy. Miller was expecting the move to Clichy to deliver him from the circuit of cheap hotels he had been traveling since arriving in Paris more than a [...]

Miller's ironic position as a proofreader of stock market quotations during the midst of The Great Depression afforded him a unique perspective. From his perch at the proofreaders desk he surveyed the collapsing world economy with the sense of detached amusement that permeates Tropic of Cancer

We’ll begin our tour of the right bank in the ninth arrondisement at the Saint-Georges metro station (line 12). Directly across from the metro station is the Hôtel Modial, which was the home of the Swiss astrologer Conrad Moricand while Henry Miller lived in Paris. Moricand was born in 1887 to an aristocratic family—his father was [...]