Paris homes question

[ensenada]

I know jim spent a while at rue beutrillis (or however its spelt), but how long did he and pam spend there?
and where was the other location he stayed in when he fell off the balcony? and how long did he stay there for?

I am asking this question because i was wondering why people dont go and see the otherresidence as well as rue beutrillis? is it because jim spent less time at the other gaff?

[peter]

sourceThe first time Jim came to Paris (without Pamela) was almost exactly a year before he died in June 1970. On June 20th, 1970, he moved into Hôtel George V. (31 Avenue George V: Metro: George V.) along with The Doors' financial manager Leon Barnard and a friend of Leon, Rick and led the life of a normal tourist visiting Napoleon's grave, the famous catacombs and the Montmartre hill, writing poetry while sitting on the stairs below the church called Sacre-Coeur. After 3 days Leon and Rick left for Copenhagen, and Jim ran into his old friend Alain Ronay by accident. Nobody of them knew that the other one was in Paris.

[peter]

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Jim moved out of the Hôtel Georges V about 4 days later to leave for some holidays together with Alain. They travelled through Spain and spent more than a week in Morocco (I've seen photos of Jim in Marrakesh, dressed in a colorful caftan, dancing with Moroccan children on Marrakesh's Djemaa El Fna-square. Other pictures show him sitting in a cafe high above the square, drinking some peppermint tea).

He came back to Paris about 10 days later and stayed in a very cheap hotel for American students called Hôtel de Medicis (214 Rue St. Jacques, Metro: Luxembourg) for another week until he left for L.A. to do his preparations for the Miami-trial. Entering this hotel today you can smell the damp of old age, and it is still very cheap.

[peter]

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Jim Morrison came back to Paris on March 11th, 1971. His girlfriend Pamela Courson (who got to Paris about a month before on February 14th 1971) was staying at the Hôtel Georges V, which Jim had recommended to her as looking like a "red plush whorehouse" and he moved in with her for a week. Then they changed into an apartment on the third floor in Rue Beautreillis 17 (Metro: Bastille, get the exit Rue Saint Antoine, walk down Rue Saint Antoine; the fifth street on your left is Rue Beautreillis), which was rented by a French model, Elizabeth (ZoZo) Lariviere and her boyfriend, an American TV producer. Jim and Pam had to pay the rent of 3000 Francs (about $600 at that time) in her absence (ZoZo left on April 10th, until then, Jim and Pam shared one of the three bedrooms in the apartment).

Pamela (as remembered by ZoZo) only talked about "Jeem" as she used to call him in her shrieking voice, but also begged ZoZo to tell lies for her in the mornings after she had stayed out with her French count Jean DeBreteuil and his friends, who Jim absolutely disliked. Jim loved the apartment in the Marais, the beautiful ancient Jewish quarter of Paris. The apartment was quiet and sunny, and he used ZoZo's desk for writing some poetry, working on his project named "Observations On America While On Trial For Obscenity In Miami", starting the script on a rock opera, writing letters to his friends, working on new poetry. He also loved the quarter of Paris he was staying at, the Marais. As reported, he went down Rue Saint Antoine with all those lovely shops offering fresh vegetables, fish and meat, bread and cheese. He bought cheese (strong smelling and tasting cheese from the Pyrénées mountains) at the little shop just round the corner, Les Fils Peuvrier (43, Rue Saint Antoine), and bottles of wine (preferably white wine from Bordeaux) at Vin des Pyrenees (25, Rue Beautreillis), for all of these use the same Metro exit as for Rue Beautreillis (see above).

[jochen]

I think the hotel where Jim fell off the balcony is "L'Hôtel" in the rue-des-beaux-Arts.

This is in St. Germain de Près and the same hotel where Oscar Wilde died in 1900. They even have a sign in front of the door saying that this was the hotel where Wilde died.

Just around the corner is the rue de Buci where Arthur Rimbaud hung his ass out of the window to show his attitude against politics (about 1870, 71, I guess...)

[ensenada]

cool info, cheers! ;D

[salli]

peter said:

sourceThe first time Jim came to Paris (without Pamela) was almost exactly a year before he died in June 1970. On June 20th, 1970, he moved into Hôtel George V. (31 Avenue George V: Metro: George V.) along with The Doors' financial manager Leon Barnard and a friend of Leon, Rick and led the life of a normal tourist visiting Napoleon's grave, the famous catacombs and the Montmartre hill, writing poetry while sitting on the stairs below the church called Sacre-Coeur. After 3 days Leon and Rick left for Copenhagen, and Jim ran into his old friend Alain Ronay by accident. Nobody of them knew that the other one was in Paris.

Peter, are you sure it was June 20 and not the following Saturday?

Problem is we have Patricia Kennealy marrying Jim in Witches Wedding Ceremony on June 24 1970 in NYC, so you see my problem here. How could she have on that date if Jim was already in Paris. Could you please double check for me, Thank you.

One slight correction, Leon was the publicist, not the financial manager.

[ensenada]

welcome to the board salli!