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Paris Jazz Age

with Rafaël · Founder of Escapade · moved from France to New York

Duration
1 hr
Distance
2.3 km
1.4 mi
Stops
6

Saint-Germain when the saxophone ruled the night — legendary cafés, a jazz cellar that still swings, and the Luxembourg Gardens as the Roaring Twenties saw them.

A walk into the Paris of the 1920s: Saint-Germain’s alleys, a café where writers and musicians collided, a cobbled street down to a club that still throbs with jazz, and the calm of the Luxembourg Gardens to finish.

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The stops

  1. 1

    Saint-Germain-des-Prés

    The neighborhood that sounded like a record in the 1920s.

  2. 2

    Les Deux Magots

    Where writers sat over one drink for hours, working things out.

  3. 3

    13 Rue Saint-Benoît

    A short street with a long jazz history.

  4. 4

    Rue de Buci

    Market stalls by day, arguments about Ezra Pound by night.

  5. 5

    Caveau de la Huchette

    A candlelit cellar where they still dance.

  6. 6

    Luxembourg Gardens

    The backyard of Paris's golden twenties.

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