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Article: Art Buchwald, a blithe American in Paris
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 6, 1996
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I'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
A Memoir
By Art Buchwald
Putnam, 236 pp., illustrated, $24.95
Although Paris was founded in 52 BC, as far as Art Buchwald was
concerned nothing really significant happened there until 1948.
That's when Buchwald arrived in town, a 22-year-old ex-Marine who
had dropped out of the University of Southern California and come to
Paris to study on the GI Bill. Ostensibly he was there to learn
French but skipped most of his classes and majored in Paris instead,
hanging out in Left Bank cafes, haunting museums (good places to pick
up visiting American girls) and happily savoring the city his idol
Ernest Hemingway had called "a moveable feast."
Buchwald ended up spending 14 ...