http://www.millerwalks.com/content/conrad-moricand Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:07:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.millerwalks.com/content/conrad-moricand#comment-70 Michael Jones from London, England Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.millerwalks.com/content/conrad-moricand#comment-70 Well I thought I knew it all about this district, from Jean-Baptiste himself to Francois Truffaut, and up pops this gem. But the first thing that went through my mind when I read this was; why haven't I been to more of these places? What I mean to say is like everyone else I'm not getting any younger, and to keep putting everything off because of finances when they're not too bad is absolute madness. In fact it's more than that; it's unforgivable, but it's something that's got to be rectified. What I mean to say is if I have to stay in some joint where somebody kicked the bucket, or where someone else decided to blow the main fuse, so be it. I think though in the case of the Central in Montparnasse, it always looked so nondescript on the outside and so uninviting on the whole that I was never tempted to stay the night. This of course was before Kreg's page, and before I was absolutely cetain it was the same building. No, the only place that I have ever stayed in that Miller has written of, is a hotel that he gives a passing mention to in Tropic and Letters to Emil. As everyone knows the Hotel La Louisiane is the stuff of legend, and housing the jazz greats and personages like Simone de Beauvoir and Hemingway, it is still going strong today. And it is, and if I am right, the only hotel to have had its exterior recreated for a film which was Round Midnight. Well I stayed here quite by accident when I made the mistake of accepting a booking in another hotel over the phone, but if I'd known I was going to stay here I'd have tried to find out what room numbers these dudes stayed in. But looking through Letters to Emil again, when Miller's on the rue de Buci he mentions a Hotel Confortable, and which for the life of me I haven't been able to find any reference to on the net. But if anyone could give any information on this via Kreg's page I would greatly appreciate it. Well I thought I knew it all about this district, from Jean-Baptiste himself to Francois Truffaut, and up pops this gem. But the first thing that went through my mind when I read this was; why haven’t I been to more of these places? What I mean to say is like everyone else I’m not getting any younger, and to keep putting everything off because of finances when they’re not too bad is absolute madness. In fact it’s more than that; it’s unforgivable, but it’s something that’s got to be rectified. What I mean to say is if I have to stay in some joint where somebody kicked the bucket, or where someone else decided to blow the main fuse, so be it. I think though in the case of the Central in Montparnasse, it always looked so nondescript on the outside and so uninviting on the whole that I was never tempted to stay the night. This of course was before Kreg’s page, and before I was absolutely cetain it was the same building. No, the only place that I have ever stayed in that Miller has written of, is a hotel that he gives a passing mention to in Tropic and Letters to Emil. As everyone knows the Hotel La Louisiane is the stuff of legend, and housing the jazz greats and personages like Simone de Beauvoir and Hemingway, it is still going strong today. And it is, and if I am right, the only hotel to have had its exterior recreated for a film which was Round Midnight. Well I stayed here quite by accident when I made the mistake of accepting a booking in another hotel over the phone, but if I’d known I was going to stay here I’d have tried to find out what room numbers these dudes stayed in. But looking through Letters to Emil again, when Miller’s on the rue de Buci he mentions a Hotel Confortable, and which for the life of me I haven’t been able to find any reference to on the net. But if anyone could give any information on this via Kreg’s page I would greatly appreciate it.

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