Paris

PGH lived in Paris on and off during 1937, when both she and Stanley Bate were taking composition lessons with Nadia Boulanger, mostly at her apartment on rue Ballu but also at Boulanger’s summer home in Gargenville. Little is known about where PGH lived, probably at rue d’Armaillé and rue de Guillaume Tell (on the right bank near the Arc de Triomphe), while Bate lived a short walk away on Boulevard Pereire. Their friends, members of Boulanger’s circle, included Doda Conrad, Hugues Cuénod, Allis and Riccardo Martin, Lennox Berkeley, David Diamond and Leonard Bernstein. While in Paris they also met Stravinsky. Her publisher, the Australian expatriate Louise Hanson-Dyer, lived in a magnificent apartment in rue Franklin. In photos in her collection PGH is shown visiting the 1937 Exposition, the visits noted in her diary along with others to Chartres, Versailles and Fontainebleu. She left London for Paris in November and in February 1938 embarked for Australia.

Featured image: Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la vie Moderne, 1937. WikiCommons.