1880-1929Thelema in Paris

Printable tour · 4 places

The expulsion

1928–1929: the last apartment, the Préfecture, the train to Brussels.

Metro · about 2 h

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  1. 21
    Rue de la Mission-Marchand6, rue de la Mission-Marchand, 75016 Paris · Metro Église d'Auteuil (10)Private, seen from the streetLodging1927

    His lodging from July to early December 1927. His daughter Astarte visited him and he took her to the circus. In 1929, Paris-Midi would speak of a “bachelor flat” of Crowley's in Auteuil, possibly this one.

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    Last Paris flat55, avenue de Suffren, 75007 Paris · Metro La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle (6, 8, 10)Private, seen from the streetLodging1928–1929

    His last Paris home, from 19 September 1928 to 16 April 1929. Kasimira Bass ran off on 11 October, Israel Regardie arrived on the 12th to become his secretary, and Gerald Yorke came to see him here in December. Here he received the proofs of Magick in Theory and Practice.

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    Préfecture de policeÎle de la Cité, 75004 Paris · Metro Cité (4)In operationMemorial1929

    The foreigners’ department refuses him a residence permit, as it does Maria de Miramar and Regardie, and orders him to leave before 9 March 1929. Being ill, he obtains a reprieve; the Préfecture confirms the measure to the press.

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    Gare du Nord18, rue de Dunkerque, 75010 Paris · Metro Gare du Nord (4, 5)In operationMemorial1929

    On 17 April 1929, watched by the Sûreté and the journalists, he takes the morning train to Brussels and announces that he will return. It is the end of his Paris years.

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