L'Hôtel

 

Irish author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) rented a furnished apartment at this now elegant hotel when it was the Hôtel d'Alsace, until his death, famously saying, "I am dying beyond my means.”

 

 L'Hôtel

 13 rue des Beaux Arts 75006

 

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day 

 

Molière, blindfolded

Someone (was it you?) has placed a red blindfold onto the statue of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name, Molière.