Traveling the World: Paul's Email-Postcard from La Closerie des Lilas in Paris: The Ernest Hemingway Plaque

Friday, June 24, 2011

Paul's Email-Postcard from La Closerie des Lilas in Paris: The Ernest Hemingway Plaque


"At The Lilas In Paris"




This is an authentic plaque, not tourist trap nonsense.

When Papa came into the Lilas, if you were sitting at his seat at the bar, you moved.

(There is a similar plaque for French Philosopher/Writer Jean-Paul Sartre at a nearby table.)

The book, photographed with the plaque one Sunday morning before the Lilas opened, is the new edition of Hemingway's Paris memoir A MOVEABLE FEAST, first published posthumously in the 1960s; this version is more as Hemingway would have wanted it -- the bad editing of publishing house editors has been corrected by Hemingway's son Patrick and his grandson Sean.

Contact Paul Heidelberg at paulheidelberg@yahoo.com to learn how to obtain a gallery-quality, high megapixel, 11 by 14-inch print of this photograph that was taken with Heidelberg's Leica digital camera, and for information about acquiring gallery-quality prints of any of the other photos on Heidelberg's blogs.


PHOTOGRAPH (c) COPYRIGHT PAUL HEIDELBERG