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The '''Hôtel des Trois Collèges''' is located at [[Rue Cujas]] in the [[5th arrondissement of Paris]], in the heart of the [[Latin Quarter]]. Formerly called '''Hôtel de Flandre''' (until 1984), it is situated opposite the [[Sorbonne (building)|Sorbonne]] University.

== History ==
[[File:Radnoti_Plaque.jpg|thumb|right|85px|Miklós Radnóti]]

The hotel is at the exact location of the Cluny College (established in 1261 by the [[Order of Cluny]]), closed during the French Revolution and used as a studio by [[Jacques-Louis David]] where he painted ''[[The Coronation of Napoleon]]'' (1805–07). The Cluny College’s well is still visible inside the hotel.

[[Arthur Rimbaud]] describes the hotel’s courtyard in a letter to [[Ernest Delahaye]] (June 1872): "I have a pretty room, overlooking a bottomless courtyard, but three square meters wide. Rue Victor-Cousin is on the corner of the Sorbonne's square near the café du Bas-Rhin and leads to Rue Soufflot on the other end".

The French poet [[Raoul Ponchon]] spent the end of his life in the hotel.

[[File:Garcia_Marquez_Plaque.jpg|thumb|left|85px|García Márquez]]

[[Miklós Radnóti]] lived in this hotel during the summers of 1937 and 1939. The Hungarian poet recalls this period in his poem "Paris" (1943):  "Where the Boul’ Mich’ meets the Rue / Cujas the corner slopes perceptibly". A commemorative plaque by the hotel entrance celebrates the memory of Radnóti with a quotation from "Hispania, Hispania": "The Nations sing your destiny, O Freedom / This afternoon that great song flew for sure".

The Colombian writer [[Gabriel García Márquez]] wrote his novels ''[[No One Writes to the Colonel]]'' and ''[[In Evil Hour]]'' in the hotel between 1956 and 1957. By the hotel entrance, a commemorative plaque by Colombian sculptor Milthon<ref>[http://www.milthonsculptor.com/#!bio/c240r Milthon homepage].</ref>  pays homage to him.

The Peruvian writer [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] stayed at the hotel a few years later.

== Sources ==
*''Dictionnaire historique des rue de Paris'', Jacques Hillairet, Minuit (1985)
*''Gabriel García Márquez : A Life'', Gerald Martin, Grasset (2009)
*''In the footsteps of Orpheus : The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti'', Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Indiana University Press (2000)
*''Rimbaud : Oeuvres complètes'', Gallimard Pléiade (2009)

==References==
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*''Raoul Ponchon, Spirilège'', Capaxios Editions (2008)
*[https://www.3colleges.fr/fr/ Official Website]
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