Printable tour · 7 places

Montparnasse

His neighbourhood, from 1902 to 1924: the studios, the Hôtel de Blois, the cafés.

On foot · about 2 h · 2 km

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Rue Campagne-Première8 bis, rue Campagne-Première, 75014 Paris · Metro Raspail (4, 6)Private, seen from the streetLodging1902–1903
Crowley lodged at No. 8 bis in this artists' street in January 1903 and wrote from here to Gerald Kelly, his Cambridge friend and future brother-in-law, who was painting in Montparnasse. This was the heart of the neighbourhood's Anglo-American circle.
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Man Ray’s studio31 bis, rue Campagne-Première, 75014 Paris · Metro Raspail (4, 6)Private, seen from the streetBackground1922–1926
Man Ray's studio from 1922 into the 1930s. Berenice Abbott was his assistant here from 1923 to 1926. Churton recounts Crowley's affair with Abbott and his friendship with Man Ray. No source says he posed here.
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Académie Colarossi10, rue de la Grande-Chaumière, 75006 Paris · Metro Vavin (4)GoneBackground1902–1903
The painting academy where Stephen Haweis met Mina Loy around 1902-1903: the Anglo-American artistic milieu in which Crowley moved in Montparnasse.
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Hôtel de Blois50, rue Vavin, 75006 Paris · Metro Vavin (4)Fate unknownLodging1908–1924
His home base for sixteen years. He moved in on 28 April 1908 after leaving Rose, returned in 1911, stayed here during the Paris Working with Victor Neuburg, from 31 December 1913 to 12 February 1914, then in 1921 and in 1924 with Leah Hirsig. The owner, M. Bourcier, gave him credit, until their eviction on 1 May 1924.
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Le Dôme108, boulevard du Montparnasse, 75014 Paris · Metro Vavin (4)Still openHaunt1908
During his magical retreat of 1-13 October 1908 (John St. John), he had coffee and a brioche here on the first morning and dined here on 2 October with Mary Waska. The café, opened in 1898, is still in business.
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Le Chat Blanc13, rue d'Odessa, 75014 Paris · Metro Edgar Quinet (6)GoneHaunt1902–1905
The artists’ restaurant to which Gerald Kelly introduces him. Somerset Maugham dines here every evening and will make him the model for Oliver Haddo, the magician of his novel The Magician (1908). Arnold Bennett describes him here too. The restaurant has disappeared.
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Maison Lavenue68, boulevard du Montparnasse (angle de la rue du Départ), Paris · Metro Montparnasse-Bienvenüe (4, 6, 12, 13)GoneHaunt1908
A hotel-restaurant founded in 1854 opposite the old Gare de l'Ouest, frequented by Rodin and Falguière. Crowley stayed here in early June 1908, the day Vanity Fair published his story “Jeremiah in the Quartier Montparnasse”, and celebrated his 33rd birthday here on 12 October: kidneys, strawberry tart, Burgundy and a cigar. It closed in 1937.
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