Americans in Paris The Lost Generation Walking Tour

About this tour

This 3-hour private walking tour traces the footsteps of American expatriate writers and artists who shaped 1920s Paris. You'll navigate the Left Bank's storied streets, stopping at the cafés where Hemingway, Baker and their circle debated art and literature. Your guide reveals the studios and haunts that anchored this creative moment, with flexibility to detour into vintage bookshops or catch live jazz if the mood strikes. A literary map made tangible.

Highlights

• Les Deux Magots and La Closerie des Lilas, where expatriates actually worked
• Studios and apartments of Hemingway, Baker, and their contemporaries
• Left Bank backstreets revealing daily rhythms of the Lost Generation
• Optional jazz aperitifs at neighbourhood bars
• Vintage bookshop deep-dives for literature obsessives
• Private guide who knows the gossip and the dates

What to expect

Expect three hours of steady walking through compact Left Bank neighbourhoods. Your guide will stop frequently—at café tables, building entrances, narrow passages—to tell the stories behind the names and faces you've read about. The tour moves at a conversational pace, with time to linger if a particular era or figure grabs you. You'll likely visit at least two or three landmark cafés; ordering a drink is optional but fits the spirit. The route is entirely negotiable: keen on the jazz scene? Bookish? Interested mainly in the women writers often sidelined in the usual narrative? Say so at the start.

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