1920s Paris  

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Josephine Baker dancing the charleston at the Folies Bergère in Paris for La Revue nègre in 1926. Notice the art deco background.
(Photo by Walery)

Inversions, the first French gay journal is published between 1924 and 1926, it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with "Outrage aux bonnes mœurs". Its full title was Inversions ... in art, literature, philosophy and science. Sexual inversion was a term used by sexologists in the late 19th and early 20th century, to refer to homosexuality.

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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.

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

See also

• French Wikipedia article on Années folles
• La garçonne
• Negrophilia
• Aftermath of World War I
• Années Folles
• 1920s
• Artistic Montparnasse
• Lost Generation
• Surrealism

Nightclubs

• One Two Two