Happy hotel
The Beat Hotel was a small hotel of 42 rooms with 9 Rue Gît- the-Heart with Paris in the Latin Quarter, which owes its fame, as its nickname (it did not have besides a name) with the members of the Beat generation who remained there.
It was a hotel “seedy character”, without comfort. The windows of the rooms gave on the stair-well, it counted only one only bath-tub at the ground floor, the warm water was available only Wednesday, Thursday and saturdays and cloths were changed once a month.
It was directed, as well as the bar of the ground floor, by Mr. and Mrs. Rachou since 1933, then after the accidental death of Mr. Rachou in 1957 by his only widow until her closing in 1963. Sometimes Mrs. Rachou, who had worked in a pension attended by Monet and Pissarro, saw of an good eye the artists which attended his establishment and was made pay in fabrics and manuscripts. She allowed even her boarders redécorer their room with their taste. It is at that time that the hotel becomes famous among Happy the generation.
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky remained there first of all in 1957. It were joined by Gregory Corso, Robin Cook, Sinclair Beiles and William Burroughs. This last, arrived of Tangier, which there compiled and supplemented its legendary naked Festin and met Brion Gysin there, beginning of a long collaboration. It is there too that Burroughs met his/her lover and “manager” Ian Sommerville with which it tried out its technique of the Cut-up. Ginsberg wrote there its more famous poem, Kaddish
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