Posted on 09/17/2018 8:44:47 AM PDT by NRx
That was fun. Thanks.
I liked where the kid was jabbed away with an umbrella when he parked in front of the camera.
Nonsense. Many people from Francophone Africa lived in Paris in the 1890s, as did people from Indochina.
Ho Chi Minh lived in Paris in the early 1900s, even became a founding member of the French Communist Party.
I don’t think the situation was quite as grave back then as it is now,..do you? And the French weren’t shy about using the guillotine.
There were fewer non-native French at the time, but that is quite different from “no immigrants.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aohXOpKtns0
Wow. The remastering is brilliant
I watched the whole video.
No one was in any particular hurry. Nice.
Why, I thought it was Dr. John....
Of course these existed just before WWI, but they were released into the mainstream of society and public life after 1918.
The first line of the Paris Metro (subway) was opened in 1900 (four years before NYC’s first subway line). So that was their solution to the manure problem.
Except for the brief interruption caused by WWI, the party pretty much kept up until the stock market crash of ‘29. Paris was a dirt-cheap place to live then, especially for some place so cosmopolitan. But after Wall Street collapsed, even before the Great Depression crossed the Atlantic, many of the American ex-pats had to return home. Most had been living the life of Riley on family money but lost their funding when the with the run on the banks.
The recovery after WWI was swift because the city’s fame and reputation grew by word of mouth from all the thousands of American, British and Canadian servicemen who had visited there during the war. So after, there was a huge influx of foreign capital and English-speaking military types returning for the cheap living and the social tolerance. And the luminosity of Paris.
Hemingway moved to Paris in 1921 as a correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star, determined to make the best of the opportunity to learn the craft of writing. Living alongside the likes of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was quite the opportunity indeed. He came with Hadley, his first wife, and always recalled the period as the happiest time of his life.
When he left Paris in ‘28 for Key West, where he and wife #2 Pauline planned to take residence, he left behind a steamer trunk full of mementos and memoirs, which he accidentally rediscovered on a return trip to Paris in ‘56. He was working on compiling all the old notes into something publishable when he killed himself in ‘61. His fourth wife and widow, Mary, finished the work and released it in ‘64 under the title, “A Moveable Feast,” an allusion to a line of Hemingway’s, “If you are lucky enough to live in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
I don’t think you can read it and not understand why the people who gravitated to the place in that era were so smitten with it.
So many horses,
so few road apples.
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