Printable tour · 5 places
Maria de Naglowska in Montparnasse
The “priestess of love” of the 1930s: her hotel, her cafés, her hall on rue Vavin and the church where she prayed.
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- 131Maria de Naglowska's first hotelRue Bréa, 75006 Paris · Metro Vavin (4)
Arriving in Paris around 1930 with the promise of a job in publishing, Maria de Naglowska was refused a work permit. Short of money, she took a hotel room on rue Bréa, in the heart of Montparnasse: this is where her Parisian life began.
- 132La Rotonde105, boulevard du Montparnasse, 75006 Paris · Metro Vavin (4)
In her early days in Paris, Maria de Naglowska made the Rotonde her office and her salon: she received visitors, wrote and gave her first talks there, and the café owners sometimes treated her to a meal.
- 133La Coupole102, boulevard du Montparnasse, 75014 Paris · Metro Vavin (4)
Maria de Naglowska then moved her headquarters to the Coupole, which had opened in 1927. Almost every evening around 7 p.m. she held court in the “occultists' corner”, near the winter garden, where disciples, the curious and local artists crowded in.
- 134The lecture hall on rue Vavin36, rue Vavin, 75006 Paris · Metro Vavin (4) / Notre-Dame-des-Champs (12)
Every Wednesday, Maria de Naglowska rented a hall on rue Vavin for her lectures on the “Third Era” and the mystery of sex. Thirty to forty people squeezed in; it was also the home of the Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow. She gave her last lecture there in early 1936, before leaving Paris.
- 135Church of Notre-Dame-des-Champs91, boulevard du Montparnasse, 75006 Paris · Metro Notre-Dame-des-Champs (12)
According to her disciple Marc Pluquet, the priestess of the Golden Arrow came every afternoon to pray in this church on boulevard du Montparnasse, a stone's throw from her hall on rue Vavin.
