{"id":17531,"date":"2011-06-24T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=17531"},"modified":"2011-06-24T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:10:37","slug":"portfolio-a-moveable-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/portfolio-a-moveable-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio: A Moveable Feast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graphic designer Yann Legendre created these portraits of writers who lived and wrote in Paris in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Legendre\u2019s illustrations are excerpted from the anthology Paris au pied de la lettre<\/em><\/a>, by Mathilde Helleu.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ernest Hemingway. <\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIf you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.\u201d \u2014Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast<\/em><\/p>\n

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Paul Verlaine.<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cAnd I go \/ Where the winds know, \/ Broken and brief, \/ To and fro, \/ As the winds blow \/ A dead leaf.\u201d \u2014Paul Verlaine, \u201cChanson d’Automne\u201d<\/p>\n

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Charles Baudelaire. <\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAnd so, before the Louvre, to vex my soul, \/ The image came of my majestic swan \/ With his mad gestures, foolish and sublime, \/ As of an exile whom one great desire \/ Gnaws with no truce.\u201d \u2014Charles Baudelaire, \u201cThe Swan\u201d<\/p>\n

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Henry Miller. <\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.\u201d \u2014Henry Miller, The Tropic of Cancer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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