Rive Gauche

From the late 19th century onwards Paris had been a congenial locus for bohemian life. By 1920 Montparnasse had superseded Montmartre as the intellectual and artistic heart of the city, inaugurating a decade of unequalled creative achievement and innovative self-performance. These were the years of the Roaring Twenties' or années folles . Paris as Gertrude Stein famously remarked was where the twentieth century was. The Rive Gauche offered a carnivalesque atmosphere of liberality, where the mani