Teo Tarras - Les Escaliers de Montmartre

Was it fun? ... did the blue creep out from the Colonades of the rue de Rivoli through the grill of the Tuilleries... was the Louvre gray and metallic in the sun and did the trees hang brooding over the cafes and were the lights at night and the click of saucers and the auto horns that play de Bussey?

Zelda Fitzgerald in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Summer 1930




What would have been the answer of Scott Fitzgerald? Well, perhaps, it was so fun, only now I'm lonely - I was today aux Escaliers de Montmartre, and I was missing you, and les Escaliers were looking a bit sad, without you ...

Actually he set his short story Babylon Revisited along the same boulevards, and at one point there is a paraphrase to Zelda's letter, he wanted to see the blue hour spread over the magnificent facade, and imagine... the cab horns, playing endlessly the first few bars of La Plus que Lente.




(The Fitzgeralds)