Just discovered your Parisian blog, thanks to RC’s «Cosmodemonic» in Toronto. Henry has never been so well served on the Web!

I wonder if you know what happened to the Hôtel Alba, in the old Italian and Russian Quarter in Paris, behind the Avenue du Maine, where Henry lived during the summer of 1930. Nowadays, there is a Hôtel Alba Opéra Residence (between Opéra and Montmartre) and a Hôtel Albe (sic) in the Latin Quarter, but I can’t find any information about Miller’s Alba and I think it’s worth being looked at, if one considers that: “Here he had only one room, without running water, but the rent was only 125 francs per month (about $5), and he was able to pay six weeks in advance.” Robert Furguson in “Henry Miller, A Life”, p. 171.

And I thank you “in advance” too!
Pierre from Montreal