Category Archives: PARIS

IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA – Chapter 3 by Peter Nolan Smith

August 7, 2021 – 6:25 am

Bernard was waiting at Charles De Gaulle Aeroport. He had arranged a week’s stay at a hotel in Paris’ old Jewish Quarter. Opening night was that evening. He had been tapped to be the club’s DJ. The Rex was under an old cinema along the Grand Boulevard. The magazine held high hopes for the subterranean […]

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MAUVAIS MECS by Peter Nolan Smith

March 22, 2021 – 9:59 pm

That year winter had been mild in Paris. Farther to the North snow covered Germany and I was glad to have been detoured from Berlin to Paris by an urgent phone call. Vonelli was in trouble. When I got off the train in Gare Du Nord, no one waiting at the station, which was a […]

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Hiding Behind Fats

January 3, 2021 – 8:28 pm

Back in 1982 I worked the door at the Bains-Douches in Paris. The owner suggested hiring new blood for security. My first choice was Big Jacques. Jacques Negrit was a tall, handsome and good-natured twenty year-old from the projects of the peripherique. His gang was called Les Bufalos. I liked Jacques and didn’t trust the […]

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Couvre-feu A Paris

October 21, 2020 – 9:04 pm

The environs of Paris have been inhabited since 10000 BN ie Before Now. The banks of the Seine have provided life to the last of the Neanderthals, the Cro-magnons, the Celts, the Romans, the Franks, and then for the French. After conquering northern France Adolph Hitler’s army declared a curfew and the City Of Light […]

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The Ugliest Man In Paris

October 21, 2020 – 4:18 pm

Alain Pacadis led the gay revolution in Paris with friends Marie France and Paquita Paquin. He wrote for various newspapers and magazines in the French capitol. I met him at the Bains-Douches, where I was working as the physionomiste. Friends joked that the unwashed journalist was the ugliest man on Earth, although Serge Gainsbourg argued […]

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