Expatriate Paris A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of The 1920s

Name: Expatriate Paris A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of The 1920s
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ISBN: 9781611456998

ISBN-10: 1611456991

ISBN-13: 9781611456998

Edition: 2013

Authors: Arlen J. Hansen

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Parishas long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From around the world writers,artists, and composers steamed in, to visit or linger, some to reside. For travelers, Francophiles and the curious, thisgossipy retrospective of expatriate life in Paris in the 1920s is a mosaic of quickglimpses—Sarah Bernhardt sleeping in a coffin to overcome her fear of death,Igor Stravinsky diving through a huge wreath at the premiere of his ballet LesNoces, Ford Madox Ford meeting Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes nearstarvation, Josephine Baker establishing her nightclub. The list of expatriates is long and luminous,and this…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Maps


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Note to the Reader


The Inner Right Bank



The Grand Hotels



From the Madeleine to the Opï¿½ra



Mostly Lost Sites: Italiens to the Louvre



The Folies-Bergï¿½re and Scattered Right Bank Sites


The Inner Left Bank



He Saint-Louis



The Eastern Edge



Saint-Andrï¿½-des-Arts



From Natalie Barney's to the Hï¿½tel Jacob



The Crosbys' Environs


From Saint-Germain to the Luxembourg



Saint-Germain and South



The Odeon and East



Vaugirard and North



Gertrude Stein's Neighborhood



Place de la Contrescarpe and the Outer Fifth Arrondissement


Montparnasse: The Heart



The Primary Chamber



The Secondary Chamber



The Aorta



Around Montparnasse Station



Beyond Montparnasse


Out Along Rue Broca


East and South of the Montparnasse Cemetery


West of the Gare Montparnasse



Remote Montparnasse Regions


The Seventh Arrondissement



The Invalides and the Eiffel


Along the Champs-Elysees



Around Concorde



The Gaveau and the Claridge



Thï¿½ï¿½tre des Champs-Elysï¿½es



The Etoile and North to the Wagram


Passy



Porte Maillot


Neuilly-Sur-Seine



Old Embassy Area



Around the Trocadï¿½ro


To the North


To the West


To the Southwest



Isolated, Remote Sites in Passy


Montmartre and Clockwise



Clichy



Montmartre



Pigalle



Toward the Trib


The Expatriates: A Selected Bibliography of Their Works


Index of Streets, Avenues, Boulevards, Etc.


Index of Noteworthy Places, Infamous Events, and Sundry Things


Index of Persons Mentioned