4-5. 59, rue Boileau

Boyd says (vol. 2, p. 13) that a fortnight after the Nabokovs had left for America this house was turned into a "heap of rubble" by a German bomb. I have not seen a pre-war picture of it, but it seems to have been restored rather well, including the archway and railed balconies. The first of the two pictures I took by perching my Rolleiflex precariously atop a tall mesh fencing; the second, by climbing on a hip-high podium running round a building across the street. Mark the double-parked cars!

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