MYTHICAL PLACES

Hotel Guy Louis Duboucheron, 13 Rue des Beaux Arts, 75006 Paris

In May 1971, Elisabeth "Zozo" Larivière is back in her apartment at 17 Rue Beautreillis and wants to dispose of it.

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Jim and his partner Pamela Courson put down their luggage and stayed for 3 weeks at the Hotel Guy Louis Duboucheron (today "L'HÔTEL"), located in the 6th arrondissement of the capital.

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Jim then insists on renting room 16 on the 1st floor, the one where one of his idols in the person of the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde died on November 30, 1900.

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One evening, Jim fell backwards through the window of this same bedroom and crashed into the bumper of a car parked below, he miraculously escaped without the slightest fracture (which is not without not doubt the case of the vehicle) and hastens to end the night in a bar.

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Today, the Hotel still exists, it is a 5-star place. It remains famous for having been the last residence of Oscar Wilde, fate causing that Morrison would rest not far from the latter at Père Lachaise, just a few months after having stayed in the same room...