"THEY CROSSED THE SEINE AND CHARLIE FELT THE
SUDDEN PROVINCIAL QUALITY OF THE LEFT BANK..."
-- Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1931
This is the passage where Fitzgerald
leaves the wealthy, Americanized area around the Hotel Ritz
to make Saint-Germain the disorienting setting for his protagonist's defeat.
MENU: 2.1.2. Saint-Germain, rampart heir
The left bank has always been less commercial and more intellectual than the right because far from the main artery,
it was Church land...
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| Crucifixion of the Parlement of Paris, toward 1450 / zoom |
King and saint in a field across the river from the Louvre, so at Saint-Germain.
...and because the city wall cut through it.
In brief
- Outlaws and Protestants live beyond the rampart
- A neighborhood that intellectuality made famous
- Hollywood's take
- Brands attack, tradition holds on
- Art galleries' riches and traps
- Other galleries that do their work well
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