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Wed 24-Oct-56: Wandered all round the shopping areas & saw Sacre-Coeur church in morning – went to Lido night club. Up very late.<\/i><\/h6>\n
Thu 25-Oct-56:\u00a0 Longchamp – went to Longchamp race course<\/a> in afternoon & cooked Chinese grub in Roley’s flat in evening.<\/i><\/h6>\n
\"[Longchamp<\/a>
Longchamp Race Course, Paris 1956, painted by W.E. Pidgeon in 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"1956<\/h6>\n
Pullen\u2019s Palace<\/h6>\n
33 Rue St Augustin [33 Quai des Grands Augustins]<\/h6>\n
Paris, France<\/h6>\n
Wed or rather Thursday<\/h6>\n
The 25th<\/sup> Oct 1956<\/h6>\n

\"1956<\/a><\/p>\n

My very dear darling, I have made three attempts to write to you about the Tyrol which I think must be one of the most beautiful places in the world. Each time I get started some interruption occurs & the Tyrol is up the spout. I can\u2019t force myself to write about it \u2013 I love it too much \u2013 I will tell you on the 28th<\/sup> of November when you are in my arms, and there is no tensions anywhere in the world, and for the little while we have some appreciative peace. I want to tell you so much about it. I cannot write much when I am staying with people. Please forgive the aimless scrawl \u2013 I have put the drop in the eyes & am not seeing very well. \u2013 Plus the feet too [?]. I have been to the Ritzy-est nightclub in Paris which means anywhere. The story is too long. I was where I was, with an English photographer from the Daily Express & it cost plenty just to sit at the bar counter & look over the shoulders of those who paid more than real money. I do not forget my darling girl. You are my wife and I your husband and its very silly, and it\u2019s also very true and there is not much that can be done about it expect think of each other. From the Lido<\/a> we went down to the Market\u2019s area where we had a couple of beers. For 7 hours I have been pounding the foot path and now, really couldn\u2019t care less about the sight & hide of the dopes who look after them.<\/p>\n

At this point your poor dear erring, but loving husband, took the knock. He had a lot to tell you, but was breathless, and too slow on the draw. All I want is for Roley to get his washing away from hanging over the bath, so that I can get some of mine into the same position. Me \u2013 I\u2019ve been washing too! I got very loving towards you (not that I am not always in that state when I\u2019m 12,000 miles away) because you are the earth I put my anchor into and you take it & have not to leave it. I think you are quite the nicest girl \u2013 and also, the most forgiving little bugger \u2013 in the whole of the southern hemisphere \u2013 and the northern too, for that matter \u2013 And no amount of scolding, or disappointment in me will alter that sad fact. I love you. I wish you were here because I am now very cold & am shivering like a leaf (aspen). Part of this fatal affection for is maybe put down to the fact that I walked around for seven hours yesterday on only a bit of a bun and 1 \u00bd cups of coffee. You remember Georges Simenon<\/a>, the Belgian author who wrote those short novels I sometimes got you to read. Novels about the gloomy French & their problems. He often talks about his lousy, unhappy heroes leaning against, or upon, a zinc lined bar, listening to the rain beating on the pavement outside whilst they drown their sorrows in a glass of Calvados. Well, I have never had a glass of Calvados, and didn\u2019t know what the hell anyone could find to drown in it. So I ups and bought a flask of it for only 175 francs which is 4\/3. There is still 2\/1 worth left in the bottle and it is a very pleasant sort of fire water, made I am told, out of apple juice. Only goes to show, doesn\u2019t it? Look, if you don\u2019t forgive me, I won\u2019t ever be the same. I\u2019ll do a Blunden on you and regret it for ever afterwards [Wep’s friend, journalist Geoff Blunden deserted his wife Micky and married another woman<\/em>]. I wouldn\u2019t be writing to you if I didn\u2019t think more of you than my actions indicate. Yah!<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon, I was gloomily looking in a shop window on the Rue des Capucines, when a voice said \u201cDo you think they are nylons or orlons?\u201d I. quick as a flash, replied \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have a clue\u201d. (Smart, eh?) Then he says \u2013 \u201cI don\u2019t think I come from too far away from you\u201d. Me \u2013 \u201cCould be, Lane Cove, Australia,\u201d Him \u201cBondi, Sydney, what are you doing?\u201d Me \u2013 \u201cContemplating a beer\u201d. Him \u2013 \u201cOright, we can we go?\u201d Us \u2013 \u201cLet\u2019s see\u201d. And so, one of the world\u2019s fleetingest friendships was formed between W. Edwin Pidgeon, late of Northwood, NSW and Ron Watson, not a Sergeant of Detectives, Bondi, NSW. He is over here on some business for Hoyts & has invited me to accompany him to a movie taking, involving the newest French glamour puss, next Monday. He says \u201ccome out with me & have a free lunch with the director\u201d. So by the time you read this letter I shall have been irrevocably seduced by the vision splendid \u2013 I hope. In any case you are not too bad yourself \u2013 much slicker than most of the Frogs I have seen. At your age too, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Remember the nice happy beer we had together at Bulli \u2013 the day after we were married. I liked that. Still do. I spent all day looking at the shops which had nothing on Sydney\u2019s. Funny thing is that the shop keepers move great quantities of their stock out on to the foot paths \u2013 and you see washing machine demonstrations \u2013 cooking exhibitions \u2013 bundles of clothing, meat, fish, & God knows what, all displayed halfway across the street. Enough to make the civic fathers of Sydney turn in their graves. I tell you, it\u2019s crazy. Everybody tells me it is nutty to buy goods in Paris. And on looking at the prices I\u2019m inclined to agree. They say wait till you get to London. There is nothing much in the stylish line around. Perhaps because winter is just around the corner. I still love you. I am one of most contented goons, you are ever likely to meet up with. I think you are a bit sappy too. Enough of this love talk. Roley is getting his secretary to take me to a big time fashion parade. I hope I can remember what to tell you \u2013 about the details & who\u2019s there & what have you. This Paris is quite a [place \u2013 even if it is only the tourists who play. Roley says most of the Parisians have never seen the Folies Bergere<\/a> [history of<\/a>], and to prove his point, immediately asked his cleaning up woman (not a bad line of about 40) if she had ever seen the show – she had not.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t need any money \u2013 I still have \u00a3210 left. I can\u2019t see any point in spending it on shows & things. After all \u2013 they fundamentally the same in Sydney \u2013 if not as well done. I\u2019m sick of gaping at notable buildings \u2013 I find the flavour of a town in its shops & its people. The way they go out \u2013 the way they work \u2013 The slums & the shops \u2013 the devil take the equestrian statues. Just now I wouldn\u2019t mind being home or having you & Graham here with me. Yesterday morning I had a little pleasure in doing a note of the Pont St Michael [Pont Saint Michel<\/a>], took a photo too, so may be able to get something out of it. The Pont Neuf<\/a> is the next one up on the river & can be well seen from the windows of Roley\u2019s flat. He & his secretary usually eat out but think it a good idea if I cook them a Chinese meal. I\u2019d like to have a go, & see how the old form is. I still love you.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have suddenly lost my punch \u2013 and find it hard to write any more. Although I am too lousy to let this letter go without filling up the back of this page. Looks as if I\u2019ll finish off a bit half cooked. Which reminds me, that I bought some books by a yank named Henry Miller<\/a> \u2013 strictly banned in England & USA \u2013 and no wonder too. King would know of him.\u00a0I bought the extra books \"Tropic<\/a>because from what I read in his, which I bought in Rome, \u201cTropic of Capricorn<\/a>\u201d he has approached a sort of Indian Tantric, (i.e. sexual union) form of mysticism. Half of this book is straight out surrealist writing \u2013 the other, & really vivid half is devoted to an extraordinarily detailed, and enthusiastic account of fucking. It will make your eyes pop out. I can\u2019t quite work out just how much exhibitionism is involved, or whether it is a purposeful contrast between the flight from self & the submergence in self. Seems like a contest between the flesh & the spirit. \"Tropic<\/a>Anyway \u2013 in whichever vein he writes, he is equally moving. Needless to say his books are on the banned list but it is possible that I can get them in. You know, by just walking through Customs with them in my hand \u2013 or pocket, etc. Funny thing \u2013 Every country I have been through, just accepts your word that you have nothing to declare. Not once has my pack been opened. The bag, incidentally is getting a bit of a bulge in it. Packed pretty solid. Have had the jumper on only 3 or 4 times. Extraordinarily warm over here. Dearest, dearest [little love heart illustration with arrow through it]<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even if it kills me I\u2019ll finish this page. You would (please say yes) wouldn\u2019t you, rather have a letter of nothing, than wait for some Baedeker description of Paris?<\/p>\n

How is Graham? I hope I am more understanding when I get back. Something has been missing. Am finding it hard to know what to get him. The limitations of plane packing have to be considered. I\u2019m glad to hear you are all well. I still haven\u2019t got your measurements \u2013 but any letters from Bucarest haven\u2019t been sent here yet. I am very glad you know that I am out of the satellite countries. I think it may have been somewhat worrying if you had thought I was still there whilst the big blue is going on between Poland & Hungary & Russia [Hungarian uprising and the Russian invasion].<\/p>\n

Au revoir & auf wiedersehen to you, dear wife, and terribly earnest thoughts for Graham. Am looking forward to seeing Trellie \u2013 2 months difference \u2013 I won\u2019t know her, nor she me.<\/p>\n

I cannot, without complete collapse of gentlemanly restraint, tell you all how much I miss you.<\/p>\n

Am getting to the stage of looking forward to my return home. Not that I\u2019ll be any better, once I settle down. But there it is \u2013 Many hugs, restrained & otherwise, ditto for these xxxxxxxxxx<\/p>\n

X \u2013 this one for the female hound, Nortey Trellie.<\/p>\n

If I had the space I\u2019d bring her back a piece of French fence post to sniff at.<\/p>\n

(P.S. Our entrance to the Lido cost us 25\/- each for 1 Scotch. We sat at the bar & looked on. We only had the 1 Scotch.)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a>
Rue Muller, Montmartre, Paris; 24 October 1956 (Looking down Rue Muller on the right and Rue Feutrier to the left from the lower steps of Rue Maurice Utrillo. The cafe on the left remains a cafe today)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Rue Maurice Utrillo, Montmartre, Paris; 24 October 1956 (Looking down to Rue Muller from about halfway down the stairs of Rue Maurice Utrillo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Pont Saint Michel and Notre Dame, Paris; 24 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Pont Neuf, Paris; 24 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
St Paul Metro Station Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 24 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Possibly Boulevard Poissonni\u00e8re, Paris; 24 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Looking west along Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle at the corner of Rue d’Hauteville, Paris; 24 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Street art along Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle near the corner of Rue d’Hauteville, Paris; 24 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Looking southwest from Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle at Porte Saint-Denis, Paris; 24 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Junction of Boulevard Saint-Denis and Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle, Paris; 31 December 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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