in Paris, always staying, with his two pet ocelots, in rooms 106 and 107, which face the Tuileries Garden. The rooms have high ceilings, parquet floors and 18th-century, Louis XVI-style furnishings. Dali once asked the hotel’s concierge staff to bring an entire herd of sheep to his rooms, so he could shoot blank bullets at them; on another occasion, he asked the concierges to catch flies for him in the Tuileries, paying them five francs for each bug caught.
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