In 1958, Ginsberg, Corso, and Burroughs moved into the Beat Hotel (9 rue Git-le-Cœur, Paris), a hangout for misfits where they rubbed shoulders with literary ghosts and avant-garde figures. Inspired by Parisian cemeteries and Breton, Ginsberg wrote Kaddish there. Jean-Jacques Lebel introduced them to the Paris underground: they met Tzara, Duchamp, and Michaux, and listened to a pirated recording of Artaud’s To Have Done with the Judgment of God—a revelation that would influence McClure, Leary, and the Living Theater. Corso composed Bomb there, Burroughs and Gysin invented the cut-up and the Dreamachine, while the Dadaist and psychedelic spirit of the place infected rock music (Soft Machine, The Doors, Patti Smith). The hotel closed in 1963, but its legacy—a mix of drugs, radical poetry, and rebellion—persisted, from Kerouac to Bowie, punks to neo-surrealists. Paris became the melting pot where Beats, surrealists, and future counterculture merged.