Photo: No. 6, Rue du Pot de Fer, Paris. George Orwell lived at No. 6, Rue du Pot de Fer which he transformed into Rue du Coq d’ Or in Down and Out in Paris and London. orwell.ru . There were eccentric characters in the hotel. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words. ~ George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter I

Photo: No. 6, Rue du Pot de Fer, Paris. George Orwell lived at No. 6, Rue du Pot de Fer which he transformed into Rue du Coq d’ Or in Down and Out in Paris and London. orwell.ru

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There were eccentric characters in the hotel. The Paris slums are a
gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into
solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or
decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as
money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives
that were curious beyond words.

~ George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter I

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