Hotel Madison, an artistic hotel in Paris 9 mars 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Culture, Parcours , trackbackThe Madison Hotel, located in front of the Saint Germain des Prés church and near the Deux Magots Café and the Café de Flore was used by a lot of artists as a residence for themselves or for friends.
The most important is Albert Camus who spent there the end of his life, writing “The Stranger”. The door of the lift of the Madison Hotel is dedicated to him.
Henri Matisse used to put his out-of-town guests at the Madison Hotel.
Boris Pasternak, Russian writer of “Doctor Zhivago”, was at the Madison during June 1935 for the International Congress of Writers for the Culture Safe which took place at the Palais de la Mutualité.
Peggy Guggenheim spent 3 weeks at the hotel in January 1938 (source: Mistress of Modernism – The Life of Peggy Guggenheim).
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