Intellectual History of the Left Bank
Paris’ Left Bank is one of the most historic quarters in world history. From the Enlightenment philosophers who helped inspired the French Revolution to Stein, Hemingway, Baldwin and de Beauvoir, this tour is a picturesque overview of modern European thought...(learn more about this tour)The Nazi Occupation of Paris
We’ll begin our tour in the heart of the Latin Quarter at Saint Sulpice, where we’ll discuss the origins of Hitler’s Third Reich and the Battle of France. From there, we’ll head to the haunted Hotel Lutetia, where the complex question of resistance and collaboration reveals itself in a prominent placard—and what remains unspoken...(learn more about this tour)Hemingway & The Lost
Generation
Beginning in the narrow streets around Place Monge, where a young Ernest first learned what it meant to write "one true sentence,” our walk will descend through the Luxembourg Gardens and the Latin Quarter before pausing at Sylvia Beach’s original Shakespeare & Company...(learn more about this tour)James Baldwin & Existentialism
After teaching Giovanni’s Room at the Sorbonne for six years, I’ve decided to bring the literature back into the streets. This walking tour is as much a story of James Baldwin’s life in Paris as it is a meditation on the enduring importance of James Baldwin’s work and philosophy.... (learn more about this tour)Montmartre & The Modernists
Careful to avoid the tourist traps as we stroll through quieter village streets above the City of Light, we will learn about the Franco Prussian War and the Paris Commune, as well as the subsequent arrival of revolutionary artists during the Belle Epoque and the modernist aesthetic...(learn more about this tour)