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, Sartre and Beauvoir, this tour is a picturesque overview of modern European thought...(learn more about this tour)The Nazi Occupation of Paris
Beginning at the Saint Sulpice church, we’ll discuss the fascism of the 1930s 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 the depths of the Saint Germain neighborhood before culminating along the Seine (learn more about this tour)Hemingway & The Lost
Generation
Beginning in the narrow streets behind the Pantheon, where a young Ernest first learned what it meant to write "one true sentence,” our walk descends through the Luxembourg Gardens and into the Saint Germain, where Hemingway made many connections and burned a few bridges along the way ... (learn more about this tour)James Baldwin & Existentialism
From his early days in the Saint Germain to his late nights in the Latin Quarter, 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 existentialist thought .... (learn more about this tour)Montmartre & The Modernists
Careful to avoid the tourist traps as we stroll through quieter village streets, 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)