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  • Kiki de Montparnasse. The Queen of 1920s Paris

    From Burgundy to the streets of Paris Alice Prin was born in Chatillon-sur-Seine in Burgundy in 1901 Her mother eventually sent her to Paris at age 12, where she attended school for a single year before Man Ray had failed to sell a single work at his own Parisian debut. In 1927 Kiki held her own exhibition of paintings in Paris, and it sold out. Paris in the 1920s: The Tale of the Notorious Kiki de Montparnasse — Bonjour Paris

  • The Communards and the long shadow of the Paris Commune of 1871

    large parts of Paris. Between twenty one and twenty eight May the French Army entered Paris. Calls for complete amnesty were made in petitions across Paris. Britannica: Paris Commune https://www.britannica.com/event/Paris-Commune Gallica Digital Library Collection of Paris Commune Documents https://gallica.bnf.fr OpenEdition Journals: Scholarly Articles on the Paris

  • Life in "La Zone": Paris’ Forgotten Underworld

    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Paris underwent a radical transformation. The Birth of La Zone "La Zone" referred to a strip of land encircling Paris, originally occupied by the Paris: 1906. Garside, Patricia. "La Zone: The Forgotten Parisian Shantytown." Paris, Capital of Modernity . New York: Routledge, 2003. Pinkney, David H. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.

  • The Forgotten Treehouses of Paris: Rediscovering Les Guinguettes de Robinson

    Walk down Rue Malabry with a copy of Defoe under your arm and see if you can trace the remnants of Paris Sources and References Messy Nessy Chic – “The Forgotten Treehouses of Paris” A comprehensive article photographs and historical anecdotes. https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/06/05/the-forgotten-treehouses-of-paris leisure culture. https://gallica.bnf.fr Paris in the Belle Époque: 1900–1914 by Vincent Bouvet and Gérard – France Today An overview of the cultural significance and evolution of guinguettes in and around Paris

  • Brassaï and Paris by Night: The Photographer Who Captured the Hidden City

    It often starts with a simple image: a wet Parisian street reflecting the glow of a single streetlamp In the early 20th century, this was not the Paris of postcards or travel guides. Paris by Night and the reinvention of the city In 1933, Brassaï published Paris de Nuit (Paris by Night The Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe, c.1932 Secret Paris and the city’s hidden life Alongside Paris Sources Brassaï, Paris de Nuit, 1933 Brassaï, Secret Paris, published 1976 Henry Miller, The Books in

  • René Groebli and Rita Dürmüller’s 1953 Honeymoon Photographs In Paris

    In the spring of 1953, René Groebli and Rita Dürmüller arrived in Paris as newlyweds, carrying little A Honeymoon in a City Still Recovering Paris in the early 1950s was neither fully restored nor frozen Groebli and Dürmüller moved through Paris without urgency. This reciprocity is central to understanding the Paris work as a shared visual diary. Groebli and Dürmüller’s Paris images reflect this change without announcing it.

  • The Gruesome Archive: How Paris Police Photography Changed Crime Detection

    A Surprisingly Long Wait Photography was invented in 1839 by Louis Daguerre, a Frenchman working in Paris Alphonse Bertillon in his own mugshot When Alphonse Bertillon joined the Paris Prefecture of Police as By 1883, the Paris police had formally adopted the system. archive illustrating murders, suicides, assassinations, and fatal accidents that took place in Paris VICE France: Photos from Murder Scenes in Turn-of-the-Century Paris https://www.vice.com/en/article/crime-and-death-in-paris-philippe-charlier-photography

  • Yva Richard: The Flamboyant Couple Who Gave Paris a Kinky Edge

    Ah, Paris in the Années Folles, what a time to be alive! have been moping about the meaning of life over at Les Deux Magots, but over in a quieter corner of Paris Yva Richard, where leather corsets, high-heeled boots, and a splash of cheeky exhibitionism turned Paris “Between the Sheets: Fetishism and the Avant-Garde in Interwar Paris.” “The History of Fetish Fashion in Paris.” The Independent, 1996. Valverde, Mariana.

  • Paris in Colour 1909-1937: Captured Using The Autochrome Lumière Process

    With over 72,000 colour images captured, these remarkable pictures of Paris from 1914, taken by Leon

  • Les Apaches: The Dandy Street Gangs Who Terrorised Belle Époque Paris

    Crime in Paris didn't end with the Apaches. Bonjour Paris: The Dandy Criminals who Terrorized Paris – https://bonjourparis.com/history/the-dandy-criminals-who-terrorized-paris New York Almanack: Apaches in Paris and New York – https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2020/07/apaches-in-paris-and-new-york Word Histories: The Apaches of Paris – https://wordhistories.net/2020/05/04/apache-paris-ruffian/ 8. /2022/09/07/the-parisian-street-gangs-that-dabbled-with-dandyism/

  • Amélie Élie: The Woman Who Started a Gang War in Belle Époque Paris

    Both men were effectively removed from Parisian life permanently. The couple lived modestly in Paris on Nardin's small income. She'd never left Paris. Lucy Sante, The Other Paris (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) 7. Bonjour Paris: The Dandy Criminals who Terrorized Paris – https://bonjourparis.com/history/the-dandy-criminals-who-terrorized-paris

  • Dr. Marcel Petiot: The Paris Doctor Who Murdered Refugees He Promised to Save

    On the evening of March 11, 1944, a neighbour on Rue Le Sueur in the 16th arrondissement of Paris called Despite all of this, he completed a medical degree from the University of Paris in 1921, finishing an He moved to Paris in 1933. He was arrested at a Paris metro station in October 1944. Sky History: Marcel Petiot: A Serial Killer in Nazi Paris 5.

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