Paris for the Holidays

Hôtel des 3 Collèges

Posted on July 2, 2021 Updated on October 31, 2021

Hôtel des 3 Collèges (website)
16, Rue Cujas, 5th arr., 75005 Paris, France

Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote No One Writes to the Colonel (his Nobel Prize winning novella)
at Hôtel des 3 Collèges in Paris (between 1956 and 1957)
(maybe you don’t want to stay in his room – he was a heavy smoker)

Made into Two Movies
-Only Death Comes for Sure (1993)
-No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)

* Which are the 3 Colleges?
(“Quels sont les trois collèges”)
– the Sorbonne (founded in 1254)
– the Collège de Cluny (1261)
– the Collège des Chôlets (1292)