Henry Miller
Lived here · 1930
Miller and his wife June stayed here briefly in 1930 — one of a string of short-term Montparnasse addresses in his first Paris year. The building still operates as a hotel.
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Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse
Still standing
In, as a customer
A successor, same room
Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse is at 15 rue Delambre in Paris’s 14th arrondissement. The hotel has 46 rooms and six Junior Suites, a breakfast buffet, and a lounge with an honesty bar.
Henry and June Miller stayed at this address in 1930Illustration
The hotel today
46 rooms & 6 suites
Classic, Club, balcony rooms, and Junior Suites.
The address
Montparnasse, 14th
15 rue Delambre, between the café junction and boulevard Edgar-Quinet.
The literary connection
Henry & June, 1930
One of the Millers’ short stays during his first Paris year.
Choose your room
A room for your Paris stay
Compare the hotel’s four room categories, then check your dates for availability and current rates.
Illustration
Classic
A 140 × 200 cm double bed, a shower, and a street view. The hotel recommends choosing a Club room for stays longer than two nights.
Club
Choose a double bed (140 or 160 cm wide) or twin beds (90 × 200 cm). Rooms face either rue Delambre or the courtyard.
Club with balcony
A queen bed (160 cm wide) or twin beds (90 × 200 cm), with a balcony overlooking the street.
Junior Suite
King, queen, or twin beds; a marble bathroom with a bathtub or walk-in shower; bathrobes, slippers, and a Nespresso machine. Check the available suite’s configuration when booking.
- Air conditioning
- Free Wi-Fi
- Safe
- TV
- Minibar
- Coffee and tea tray
During your stay
Breakfast, a lounge, and a late drink
Breakfast, 7–11 a.m.
A buffet with hot and cold dishes. Check whether breakfast is included in the rate you choose.
An honesty bar
Help yourself to a drink and record what you take for payment. The bar is open from noon to 1 a.m.
A place to pause
The lounge has books and newspapers. An internet corner with a printer and left-luggage service are also available.
Traveling with a baby
A crib, baby monitor, and changing mat are available on request. Confirm your needs directly with the hotel before arrival.
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+33 1 43 35 34 50The history of 15 rue Delambre
A Montparnasse hotel where Henry Miller and his wife June stayed briefly in 1930, in the unsettled first months of his Paris decade. It still operates at the same address as the Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse.
The neighborhood
Montparnasse
Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse is in Montparnasse.
Henry Miller’s first Paris year
The rue Delambre runs between the boulevard du Montparnasse and the boulevard Edgar-Quinet, a short street off the junction where the Dôme, the Rotonde, the Coupole and the Sélect all stand. In the 1920s and 30s it was full of cheap hotels serving exactly the population those cafés attracted.
Henry Miller and his wife June stayed at 15 rue Delambre briefly in 1930. It is one of a string of short-term addresses from his first Paris year, alongside the Hôtel des États-Unis that autumn and, later, the Hôtel Central shared with Alfred Perlès.
The sequence is the point. Miller's first two years in Paris are a list of rooms held for weeks at a time, and no single one of them is the important address — the churn is. He was thirty-eight, had published nothing, and was moving every time the money ran out.
The building is still a hotel and still bookable, now trading as the Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse. There is a well-repeated account that the business preserves the older Grand Hôtel des Écoles name in its operating identity, which would make the continuity of the site unusually clean; the sources here confirm the address and the current hotel rather than that lineage, so the record keeps the older name as a historical alias and stops there.
Key facts
- Henry Miller and his wife June
- Briefly, in 1930
- Off the Montparnasse café junction — the Dôme, Rotonde, Coupole and Sélect are all a minute away
- One of a string of short-term rooms in Miller's first Paris year; the churn is the story
- Still a hotel — the Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse — and bookable
In images
Timeline
Miller and June stay briefly at 15 rue Delambre.
They lodge at the Hôtel des États-Unis on the boulevard du Montparnasse.
Miller shares a room at the Hôtel Central with Alfred Perlès.
On the map
Questions before you go
Did Henry Miller stay at 15 rue Delambre?
Yes — he and his wife June stayed there briefly in 1930, one of a string of short-term addresses in his first Paris year. The building still operates as a hotel, the Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse.
Was it the Grand Hôtel des Écoles?
That is the widely repeated account, and it would make the site's continuity unusually clean. The sources used here confirm the address and Miller's 1930 stay, and confirm that the building is a hotel today — but not the name lineage itself, so the record keeps Grand Hôtel des Écoles as a historical alias rather than asserting it.
Why did Miller move around so much?
Money. He arrived in Paris in 1930 at thirty-eight with nothing published and very little of anything else, and his first two years are a list of rooms held for a few weeks at a time — hotels, borrowed flats, a shared room with Alfred Perlès. No single address from that period is the important one; the churn is what the period was.
Writers who knew this place
Within walking distance
The Dingo Bar
The American bar where Ernest Hemingway met F. Scott Fitzgerald in late April 1925 — two weeks after The Great Gatsby was published.
Visit the place
At the Sign of the Black Manikin, 4 rue Delambre
Edward Titus's Montparnasse bookshop and press, which sold copies of the privately printed first edition of Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack.
Visit the place
Black Manikin Press (4 Rue Delambre)
Edward Titus's Montparnasse bookshop and small press, where D. H. Lawrence settled terms on 5 April 1929 for the cheap Paris edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover that finally undercut the pirates.
Visit the place
La Coupole
The giant brasserie of the Boulevard du Montparnasse, opened in December 1927 with a party the quarter never forgot — Blaise Cendrars was in the opening-night crowd.
Visit the placeReferences
References
The sources below include histories, archival materials, scholarly research, and official records that informed this page. They document Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse, the people connected to it, and its place in Paris.
1Henry Miller: Born To Be Wild
PeriodicalBonjour ParisUsed forGives 15 rue Delambre among Miller's Paris addresses, with the brief 1930 stay. A magazine survey rather than an institutional source, and it does not name the hotel.
2OpenStreetMap
Map dataUsed forMap data used to verify addresses, geographic coordinates, and the placement associated with Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse.
3Henry Miller: The Paris Years
BiographyBrassaï, 1995Used forBiographical evidence used to verify chronology, relationships, and historical context connected to Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse.
4Henry Miller: A Life
BiographyW. W. Norton, 1991Used forBiographical evidence used to verify chronology, relationships, and historical context connected to Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse.
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