It was 1957, when an ordinary hotel in the Latin Quarter of Paris was
dubbed "The Beat Hotel" and then became the center of this literary
groundbreaking artistic energy.
The three men that christened this hotel were some of the core founding
fathers of the counter cultural Beat Generation: William S. Burroughs,
Gregory Corso, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beat Hotel at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur on
the Left Bank was the o...
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