![]() ![]() In the footsteps of David Bowie: A cultural history and guide to Bowie’s bohemian Berlin ![]() Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.” Thus, he wrote: “The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. When he arrived, he found a lot of others had the same idea. Orwell, like so many artists of the period hoping to cash in on a windfall of a favourable French exchange rate, left for Paname to try and make headway in the world of literature surviving on what little savings he had earned working in the Burmese police. We have followed in his footsteps to bring you what remains of its quaint pocket-change charming side. Nobody knows that better than George Orwell after he scoured the demimonde of its bohemian sprawl for his debut novel Down and Out in Paris and London. As it happens, Paris on the cheap might just be the prettiest Paris of them all. However, the most paradoxically Parisian thing of all is that this condition makes much more sense when the veneer of grandeur is lifted, and you get down to the cobbled, sooty underbelly of the candle-lit city. ![]()
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