Hôtel des 3 Collèges
The Hôtel des 3 Collèges is located on Cujas Street (Rue Cujas) in the heart of the Latin Quarter ( Quartier Latin ) in the 5th arrondissement of Paris . Formerly known as the Hôtel de Flandre (until 1984), the hotel is located opposite the Sorbonne .
history
The hotel is located in the exact same location as the Cluny College, founded in 1261 by the Cluniac Order . The college was closed during the French Revolution and was subsequently used as a studio by Jacques-Louis David , where he painted the imperial coronation of Napoleon I. The Cluny College fountain is still clearly visible in the building of the hotel.
Arthur Rimbaud describes the hotel courtyard in a letter to Ernest Delahaye in June 1872 as follows: “I have a nice room, with a view of the inner courtyard, but three square meters. Rue Victor-Cousin is on the corner of Place de la Sorbonne next to Café du Bas-Rhin and leads to Rue Soufflot at the other end.
The French poet Raoul Ponchon spent the last years of his life in this hotel.
Miklós Radnóti , a Hungarian poet, spent the summers of 1937 and 1939 in this hotel. He remembers this period in his poem "Paris" (1943). “Where the Boulevard Saint-Michel meets the Rue Cujas, the sidewalk slopes a bit.” A plaque at the entrance of the hotel reminds of Radnoti with a quote from his poem “Spain”: “All peoples shout your freedom out / So how today in Paris ”.
The Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel Prize in Literature 1982) wrote his novel The Colonel Has Nobody Who Writes to Him in this Hotel in 1956. A memorial relief by the sculptor Milthon, located at the hotel entrance, honors the work of the writer Garcia Marquez.
The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize in Literature 2010) stayed at this hotel a few years later.
literature
- Dictionnaire historique des rue de Paris , Jacques Hillairet, Minuit (1985)
- Gabriel García Márquez: A Life , Gerald Martin, Grasset (2009)
- In the footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti , Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Indiana University Press (2000)
- Rimbaud: Oeuvres complètes , Gallimard Pléiade (2009)
- Raoul Ponchon, Spirilège , Capaxios Editions (2008)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 52.7 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 32.3" E