When the Gestapo Raided the Villa Seurat

In 1930, Henry Miller arrived in Paris with only a razor, toothbrush, pen, notebook and walking stick to his name. He set up shop on the Villa Seurat, a short cul-de-sac street in the 14th arrondissement, near the writers Anais Nin and his sometimes housemate, Lawrence Durrell, as well as the…