Thanks for your comments. It’s great to hear from people who know Ave. Anatole France well. I’ll definitely turn to you if I run into any more questions about Miller’s apartment in Clichy.

Jacques Mesrine, famous gangster lived in the same Avenue after the war.

I don’t know which floor Miller’s apartment was located on, but it appears to have been above the ground level. Alfred Perlès writes of looking down from the kitchen window at the street below:

The kitchen was light and roomy. There was a window looking down on a dreary, suburban panorama, to which we couldn’t get accustomed for a long time.
—My Friend Henry Miller, page 88

And Miller writes of going downstairs to empty the garbage pail in the courtyard and pausing at the staircase window to look at the Sacré Cœur:

Every evening, after dinner, I take the garbage down to the courtyard. Coming up I stand with empty pail at the staircase window gazing at the Sacré Cœur high up on the hill of Montmartre.
—Black Spring, page 24

So, apparently the apartment was on a higher level than the lowest staircase window looking out onto the courtyard. And the kitchen window looked out onto the street. I hope that helps.

It would be great to see a view of the inside of the building. If you get a chance to take some photos of the interior or of the view from the windows, please post links to them here – or you can email them to me for posting on this site at info@millerwalks.com

Cheers

Sophie