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Rue Delambre and the plaques of Gauguin, Breton, and Hemingway.

Hotel Delambre - where Paul Gauguin, André Breton, and Maurice Le Scouezec stayed in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, noted mostly for his colourful paintings that he created during the ten years he lived in Tahiti in French Polynesia (1891-1893 and 1895-1903).

The gold plaque at the Hotel Delambe reads: "In this hotel came, in 1891, the artist painter Paul Gauguin."

Maurice Le Scouezec (1881-1940) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator, writer, soldier, sailor, and voyager. He worked with painters such as Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani. Le Scouezec is noted mostly for his paintings from his African visits.

The gold plaque at the Hotel Delambe reads: "The painter and writer Maurice Le Scouezec (1881-1940) lived in this hotel from 1917 to 1924."