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27 rue de Fleurus was the home of the American writer Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas from 1903 to 1938. It is in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the Left Bank. It was also the home
Gertrude Stein at 27 rue de Fleurus with her portrait by Picasso on the wall, May 1930
Plaque at 27 rue de Fleurus
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933. It employs the form of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, Stein
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…in the apartment, including works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, which she and her brother Leo had bought. In 1933, Stein published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, a memoir of her life in Paris and driving an ambulance during World War I, written in the voice of Toklas, her life partner. The book was a bestseller…
Alice B. Toklas, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949
"... remarks are not literature"