Trois Mailletz

Some people at Patricia's soirée on Sunday expressed interest in visiting the Trois Mailletz, my favourite Parisian bar, so we arranged to meet there on Tues 16th June:

On the way I did my own little tour in the tracks of Sartre and De Beauvoir, partly because I'm reading a book about them: "Dangerous Liasons".

Jardins du Luxembourg, where they were taken as children:



and where they went as students to study, flirt and discuss ideas:



De Beauvoir's early life was dominated by the Catholic religion - this is just round the corner from where she lived in Rue de Rennes:




The Ecole Normale Superiere, where Sartre was a student (she was at the Sorbonne) and where they both took their exam in philosophy for the aggregation, Sartre coming first and she second:



Trois Mailletz, Rue Galande, which is now to be Patricia's street



Ariane, from Germany, watches Meiko, who was studying opera at the Conservatoire last time I was in Paris:



Judy, from Australia:



Vanessa (US), Colin (UK), Patricia (US):



On the left, Catherine (US):



"You played it for her, you can play it for me - play it.":



Then I went on to the Caveau de la Huchette again. A lot of people were dancing, even in the interval, when I arrived:




The Brad Leali Swing Groupo (USA):







This time there were a couple of dancers I'd first seen three years ago, they looked like dance teachers, and gave a wonderful performance:












Unfortunately I was over-optimistic about just how late the Metro ran, and, at the first change of line, they announced there were no more trains:





So it was a cab back - worth it for another very good night in Paris: