Memoirist, vendor, humanist, lover The new star of St. Germain des Pres

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 25, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Mary Blume
International Herald Tribune
03-25-2005
Even in its postwar heyday, St. Germain des Pres was not a real quarter, said the poet Jacques Prevert who lived in Montmartre, because it had neither peanut vendors nor whores.Still, it did its best to seem authentic, with its consciously villagish atmosphere and its long vanished characters like Marguerite the dancing bear and Mlle. Genevieve, who genteelly plucked a mandolin outside the Brasserie Lipp.Today, with Dior and Cartier and Louis Vuitton in the shadow of the spires of the village church, St. Germain is less a quarter than ever, ...

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