"Jim Morrison did not die here"
(Jim Morrison did not die here).
Printed on an A4 sheet, the message is the only indication that allows the passer-by to know that 17 rue Beautreillis was the last address of the singer of the Doors.
Almost fifty years after her death, there is no official plaque attesting to the rock star's stay in this building.
Only this ephemeral trace reminds us that Jim Morrison lived in the Marais.
The message also relays a hypothesis that continues to circulate with insistence.
According to some, and contrary to what has been officially announced, Morrison would not have died in the apartment he occupied on the third floor of this bourgeois building, but in the toilets of Rock'n'Roll Circus, a club of the Left Bank.
A simple supposition, which no witness is able to attest today.
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