The golden moments of Paris : a guide to the Paris of the 1920s / John Baxter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baxter, John, author.

Series:

Museyon guides.

Museyon Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paris (France)--History--20th century.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France)--Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Museyon Inc., 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Golden Moments of Paris, John Baxter uncovers fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its "character" in the years between World War I and World War II. Explore one of the world's most beautiful and loved cities in 26 fact-filled, humorous, and dramatic stories about the famed Années Folles-the Crazy Years-at the turn of the 20th century in Paris. Learn about Gertrude Stein and her famous writers' salon, Salvador Dali and the Surrealists, the birth of Chanel No. 5, and the antics of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the "lost generation." Then see what the

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Les Années Folles; Contents; Chapter 1. Scrap Heap of the Gods: Montparnasse and Les Montparnos; Chapter 2. Wild in the Streets: Les Apaches; Chapter 3. The Russians are Coming: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes; Chapter 4. "Who was that Masked Man?": Fantômas, the Vampires, and Judex; Chapter 5. A Well-Drssed War: Paris in World War I; Chapter 6. The First Lady of Bohemia: Sylvia Beach and Shakespeare and Company; Chapter 7. Perfume Wars: Bottling the Blue Hour; Chapter 8. Where the 20th Century was: Gertrude Stein and her Salon

-Duelling Painters: Matisse vs. PicassoChapter 9. The Kindest Cut: The Bob Fad and the Garçonne Scandal; Chapter 10. A Killer Named Desire: The Businesslike M. Landru; Chapter 11. Monkey Business: Serge Voronoff and the Quest for Youth; Chapter 12. Faraway Places: The Birth of Tourism; Chapter 13. Faster, Higher, Stronger, Meaner: The 1924 Olympic Games; Chapter 14. "Little Girl, Can you do the Charleston?": Le Jazz Hot; Chapter 15. Artificial Paradises: Absinthe, Opium, and the Culture of Forgetting; Chapter 16. In the White City: The Birth of Art Déco

Chapter 17. The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower: The Victor Lustig and Stavisky ScandalsChapter 18. As Though it Knew: The Unknown Woman of the Seine; Chapter 19. Of Thee I Sing: American Songwriters in Paris; Chapter 20. Black as the Devil, Hot as Hell, Pure as an Angel, Sweet as Love: Coffee and the Café; Chapter 21. Little Gentlemen: Gay and Lesbian Paris; Chapter 22. The Razor and the Eye: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, and Surrealism; Chapter 23. The Heavyweight Champion of Montparnasse: Hemingway's Knockout; Chapter 24. A Half-Crazed Cad: The Wild Ride of Harry and Caresse Crosby

Chapter 25. Love for Sale: Maisons Closes and Poules De LuxeChapter 26. Wasp and Pear: The Fitzgeralds and the Murphys; The Golden Moments of Paris: Walking Tours; I. Seine Left Bank Walk; II. Latin Quarter, ST. Germain and Odeon Walk; III. Montparnasse Walk; IV. Trocadero Walk; Index; Credits; About Museyon; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 28, 2014).

ISBN:

1-938450-45-0

1-938450-46-9