A literary walk shaped around your curiosity
This experience is for readers, history enthusiasts and anyone who wants to discover Paris through the lives and work of its writers.
We move at your pace, letting the city speak to us.
Of course, we talk about the writers, but also their lives, their loves, their cafés, their tempers, their habits, their obsessions.
Fully personalised
Each route is crafted according to your tastes :
your favourite authors, your reading habits, your mood of the moment.
Here are a few examples of possible itineraries :
Victor Hugo: Paris, the Romantic Capital
A journey into 19th‑century Paris, passions, revolutions and struggles.
Proust: In Search of lost Paris
A delicate, sensitive itinerary, almost suspended in time, through townhouses, salons, gardens and façades that shaped his work.
Hemingway & the Lost Generation
Montparnasse, Saint‑Germain, literary cafés, artists’ studios.
A cosmopolitan, free, incandescent Paris.
Colette: Paris Through a Woman’s Eyes
The Palais‑Royal gardens, theatres, passages and the places where Colette lived, wrote and loved.
A sensual, intimate, vibrant Paris.
Sartre & Beauvoir: Existentialism in Motion
The cafés of Saint‑Germain, the bookshops, the debating haunts, the streets where a new way of thinking was born.
Balzac: Paris as a World of Its Own
The alleys, houses and neighbourhoods that make up La Comédie humaine.
A social, political, teeming Paris.
Paris of the Poets: Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Prévert
The bridges, quays, passages and cafés where poetry was written and reinvented.
And of course, we can create a fully bespoke itinerary :
your favourite author, your era, your atmosphere.
For more literary landmarks and hidden bookshops, explore our Paris cultural guides.
A conversation, not a lecture
Our literary tours are not lectures.
They are conversations.
We talk about writing, daily life, passions, breakups, cafés, Parisian nights…
We sometimes read a few lines, share anecdotes, and bring the places back to life.
Children and teenagers are welcome :
we adapt the tone, the stories and the stops so everyone can enjoy the experience.
Why choose a private literary tour?
- A route shaped around the writers you actually want to explore
- Paris seen through the eyes of those who wrote it
- A pace entirely adapted to you
- Confidential, lesser‑known places
- Time for conversation, reading and unexpected discoveries along the way
- A shared moment that stays with you long after the tour
It’s the difference between walking through Paris… and walking through a story.
