Fatigué de rouler les trains

"Paris ain’t much of a town." ~Babe Ruth

Well Mr. Ruth you may be the best baseball player but Paris is so much more than any town. And today I went to a part of Paris that I haven't been to before. It was the original location of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookstore. It has now turned into a clothing shop but it has a little plaque that notes where it is. However it only mentions the fact that Ulysses from James Joyce was printed there. There was nothing on the amazing person she was nor about the nurturing she did for the Avant garde writers. Such writers as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot and many many more.  

It just so happened that the apartments that were once Sylvia Beach's are just to the left of the apartment that was once Thomas Paine. He was the writer of Common Sense the pamphlets/book that helped get the colonists revved up and to call for the Revolutionary war. The history nerd in me was just as excited to know that I was seeing the same road that Paine had once walked. 

Other than that I really haven't done much. I went to ACCENT and printed out a secret and then went to the boulangerie one tram stop up and got myself a baguette and my first croissant here. The croissants here are much flakier as in not just layered but they really do just flake away to bits. It

was really good and I ate most of it with nutella (just like all the bread I eat).  

Well I hope you had a great day. There probably won't be a blog update tomorrow, because I have a very long and special day planed out that will more than likely wipe me out. So sorry about that but there will be an update devoted just to that so no worries.
Jusqu'à demain,

Bisous Janice

In 1922 in this house Miss Sylvia Beach

 published "Ulysses" from James Joyce

The original building of Sylvia Beach's 

Shakespeare and Company.

Cobblestone peaking out like Beach 

and Paine would have walked

Thomas Paine lived in this building from 1797 to 1802. He put his passion 

for freedom in the service of the French Revolution, 

was a member of the Convention and wrote The Rights of Man
"When opinions are free the power of truth will always prevail"

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