Années folles
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After World War I, Paris emerged into an energetic but restless interwar period, enlivened by the arrival of glamorous émigrés such as Joséphine Baker. It was a troubled political period, however, especially when the Great Depression hit Paris.
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Nomenclature
The period is also known as Les Années Folles, corresponding with the Roaring Twenties in the Anglosphere.
Montparnasse and Montmartre
Like its counterpart Montmartre, Montparnasse became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, referred to as the Années Folles (the Crazy Years), when it was the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris.
In fiction
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
Nightclubs
See also
- French Wikipedia article on Années folles
- La garçonne
- Negrophilia
- Aftermath of World War I
- Années Folles
- 1920s
- Artistic Montparnasse
- Lost Generation
- Surrealism
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