Paris
Hadley and Hemingway lived in a small walk-up at 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine in the Latin Quarter and he worked in a rented room in a nearby building. That winter he discovered a bookshop (Shakespeare and Company) run by American expatriate Sylvia Beach that also functioned as a lending library; Hadley asked whether the bookshop carried any of James Joyce's works, which she liked. Beach published Joyce's Ulysses and the Hemingways met Joyce there in March 1922.
Hemingway decided to use Anderson's letters of introduction and that spring Ezra Pound invited him and Hadley for tea. They were also invited to Gertrude Stein's salon and she in turn visited the young couple in their apartment. That spring Hadley and Hemingway travelled to Italy and in the summer to Germany. Hadley travelled alone to Geneva in December 1922 to meet Hemingway who was covering a Peace Conference. It was during this trip that Hadley lost a suitcase filled with Hemingway's manuscripts at the Gare de Lyon. He was devastated at the loss and blamed her.
A few months later, when they learned Hadley was pregnant, the couple decided to soon move to Toronto. That spring the couple went for the first time to watch the bullfighting and the running of the bulls at the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, after which they returned to Canada. Their son John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway was born on October 10, 1923. He was named for his mother, Hadley, and for the young Spanish matador Nicanor Villalta. The baby was healthy and the birth quick; Hemingway missed it, as he had been sent to New York on assignment. Hadley nicknamed the infant "Bumby".
In Toronto the family lived in a small apartment on Bathurst Street with "wall space enough to hang their collection of paintings". Hadley called the assignments given to her husband at the Toronto Star "absurd". Hemingway missed the life in Paris, considered Toronto boring, and wanted to return to Paris to the life of a writer rather than live the life of a Toronto journalist.
The three returned to Paris in January 1924 and moved into a new apartment on Rue Notre Dame des Champs. Hadley hired a woman to help with housework and with Bumby and borrowed a pram to take the baby on walks in the Luxembourg Gardens. Bumby's christening was held at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in March with "Chink" Dorman-Smith and Gertrude Stein as godparents. A few months later, mismanagement of her funds left Hadley with a financial loss and Hemingway started work as an editor for the Transatlantic Review. In June they left Bumby in Paris to attend the fiesta in Pamplona, and that winter they went for the first time to Austria to vacation in Schruns.
Sometime after their return to Paris, Hemingway met the Pfeiffer sisters and in June 1925 Hemingway and Hadley left Paris for their annual visit to Pamplona—the third year they had done so—accompanied by a group of American and British expatriates. The trip inspired Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, which he began to write immediately after the fiesta, finishing it in September. In November, as a birthday present to her, Hemingway bought Joan Miró's painting The Farm.
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Famous quotes containing the word paris:
“Beloved, may your sleep be sound
That have found it where you fed.
What were all the world’s alarms
To mighty Paris when he found
Sleep upon a golden bed
That first dawn in Helen’s arms?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects gave him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre, and miles of new boulevards.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)