The Beat Hotel was a small, run-down hotel of 42 rooms at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur in the Latin Quarter of Paris, notable chiefly as a residence for members of the Beat poetry movement of the mid-20th century.
Outside The Beat Hotel, Paris: Peter Golding, Madame Rachou (Proprietor) and Robin Page, Peter's busking partner.[clarification needed] Photo: Mike Kay
Plaque installed in 2009
Rue Gît-le-Cœur is a street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Rue Gît-le-Cœur
The Hotel de Luynes in 1655, engraving after Israel Silvestre
17th-century building at No.10
The street during the Great Flood of 1910