Hotel La Louisiane

Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Billie Holiday, Lester Young and Charlie Parker all stayed at the hotel.

[2] In 1954, a double portrait of Lucian Freud, In Shadow Against the Light from the Window, With His Second Wife, Caroline Blackwood was painted in the hotel.

[5] Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir moved into the hotel in 1943 and lived there during and after the Second World War, making it the headquarters of the existentialists.

Albert Camus, Boris Vian, Anne-Marie Cazalis, as well as Claude Simon, also a resident, regularly mingled at the Lousiane.

Other writers have lived there, such as Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Henry Miller, Cyril Connolly, Peter Berling, and Albertine Sarrazin.

[9] During that period, the Louisiane welcomes Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Lester Young and Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Mal Waldron, Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter.

Barbet Schroeder moves in with Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grunberg to shoot the movie More, which bears the same name as the eponymous Pink Floyd album which makes up the music of the film.

In the summer of 1970, Gene Vincent and Adrian Owlett move to the Louisiane to oversee the production of The Day the World Turned Blue album and to organize the subsequent French tour.

[14] In 2002, from 14 to 27 December, Alain Le Gaillard[15] gallery hosts 24 artistes in 12 rooms, amongst which : Julien Beneyton, Jean-Luc Bichaud, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, Barthélémy Toguo, Lionel Scoccimaro, Emmanuelle Villard, Wang Du.

Artists present their creations on the theme of the sixties-seventies: Martine Aballéa, Pierre Joseph and Frank Perrin, along with the participation of the atelier of Nathalie Talec from the Beaux-Arts of Paris.