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Montmartre & Pigalle

The Mathers on rue Saint-Vincent, the Grande Loge de France, the hotel on rue Frochot.

On foot · about 1 h · 1.5 km

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   The Mathers in Montmartre28, rue Saint-Vincent, 75018 Paris · Metro Lamarck-Caulaincourt (12)Private, seen from the streetLodging1901–1902

   Mathers wrote to Yeats from this address on 12 January 1901. At the end of 1902, having fallen out with him, Crowley came here to claim his books and luggage: Mathers returned the books, but not the trunk. The street, in the heart of old Montmartre, has barely changed.

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   Grande Loge de France (1903–1911)42, rue Rochechouart, 75009 Paris · Metro Anvers (2)Private, seen from the streetInitiation1904

   The headquarters and temples of the Grande Loge de France from 1903 to 1911. Crowley was received here into the Anglo-Saxon Lodge No. 343: initiated on 8 October 1904, raised to Master Mason on 17 December, registered as a “poet”. In June 1913 he announced his resignation, reproaching the lodge for tolerating co-Masonry.

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   Hotel on rue Frochot12, rue Frochot, 75009 Paris · Metro Pigalle (2, 12)Fate unknownLodging1926–1927

   His Pigalle address, at the foot of Montmartre, from 26 August 1926: the Hôtel Atlantic, called the Hotel Frochot in his 1927 letters. The actress Jane Wolfe, who had come from the Abbey of Thelema, joined him here on 12 September. This was the period of the magical operations recorded in his diary. He was still here in July 1927.

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