6 rue du Pot de Fer
So here it is. After 5 years of walking around Paris in the footsteps of George Orwell (or Eric Blair…
The Hotel X
“Anyone coming into the basement for the first time would have thought himself in a den of maniacs. It was…
Russian Paris – part 1
Before tens of thousands of Russians flooded into France following the forced migrations of WWI and the Bolshevik revolution, a…
Enter the Russian Captain
“Writing is bosh. There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher’s…
Foch’s Funeral
On the 29th of March 1929, days after discharging himself from the Hôpital Cochin, Eric Blair attended the funeral of…
L’Hôpital Cochin – How the poor die
On the 5th of April 1928, the French government passed a law allowing anyone with an official work contract to…
A Paris Hotel
If Eric Blair had come to Paris to broaden his outlook, the Hotel at 6 Rue du Pot de Fer…
Found in Translation
27 rue du Sommerand. The heart of the Paris Latin quarter. I park my scooter in front of the dark…
The very thirsty captain
Although it doesn’t concern THE Russian captain that Orwell befriended in Paris in 1929, this letter and expenses bill caught…
Over Eric’s shoulder…
An extract from Chapter 2 of ‘Orwell and the Russian Captain’. We follow over Eric Blair’s shoulder in 1928 as…