9. Café de la Paix

Near the Opera. The setting of the famous dinner to which Bunin invited VN in 1936. The two emerged from it out of necessity dancing round one another (see Speak, Memory). Incidentally, there must be something wrong with that account, for I saw a copy of Despair, now at Cornell's Rare Book Collection, inscribed by VN soon after the dinner in terms most reverential and apparently sincere, which would have been hardly possible after the disastrous incident described in the memoir.

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