1920s Paris
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| - | 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. | + | Like its counterpart [[Montmartre]] in the mid-19th century, [[Montparnasse]] became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, when it was the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris. |
| ==In fiction== | ==In fiction== | ||
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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 in the mid-19th century, Montparnasse became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, 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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