EXPATRIATE PA

by HANSEN,ARLEN J.

• ISBN13: 9781611456998
• ISBN10: 1611456991
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2012-10-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

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 book-a work of immense erudition spiced with anecdotes andgossip-documents their haunts and habits, their comings and goings, theirrelationships intimate and artistic. Structured in thirty-three geographicaland very walkable sections, ExpatriateParis is cross-referenced by streets, names, and topics and equipped withnine maps to satisfy the most demanding traveler, whether real or armchair.

Author Biography

Arlen J. Hansen was a professor of English at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he taught a course on Expatriate Paris in the 1920s. He is also the author of Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War, published by Arcade. He died in 1993.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Note to the Reader	p. xxv
The Inner Right Bank	p. 1
The Grand Hotels	p. 5
From the Madeleine to the Opéra	p. 13
Mostly Lost Sites: Italiens to the Louvre	p. 20
The Folies-Bergère and Scattered Right Bank Sites	p. 26
The Inner Left Bank	p. 31
He Saint-Louis	p. 35
The Eastern Edge	p. 41
Saint-André-des-Arts	p. 44
From Natalie Barney's to the Hôtel Jacob	p. 49
The Crosbys' Environs	p. 61
From Saint-Germain to the Luxembourg	p. 69
Saint-Germain and South	p. 73
The Odeon and East	p. 81
Vaugirard and North	p. 90
Gertrude Stein's Neighborhood	p. 101
Place de la Contrescarpe and the Outer Fifth Arrondissement	p. 107
Montparnasse: The Heart	p. 117
The Primary Chamber	p. 119
The Secondary Chamber	p. 130
The Aorta	p. 136
Around Montparnasse Station	p. 152
Beyond Montparnasse	p. 161
Out Along Rue Broca	p. 161
East and South of the Montparnasse Cemetery	p. 167
West of the Gare Montparnasse	p. 170
Remote Montparnasse Regions	p. 174
The Seventh Arrondissement	p. 179
The Invalides and the Eiffel	p. 183
Along the Champs-Elysees	p. 195
Around Concorde	p. 199
The Gaveau and the Claridge	p. 207
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées	p. 214
The Etoile and North to the Wagram	p. 221
Passy	p. 229
Porte Maillot	p. 233
Neuilly-Sur-Seine	p. 235
Old Embassy Area	p. 236
Around the Trocadéro	p. 240
To the North	p. 240
To the West	p. 243
To the Southwest	p. 246
Isolated, Remote Sites in Passy	p. 253
Montmartre and Clockwise	p. 257
Clichy	p. 259
Montmartre	p. 263
Pigalle	p. 267
Toward the Trib	p. 272
The Expatriates: A Selected Bibliography of Their Works	p. 277
Index of Streets, Avenues, Boulevards, Etc.	p. 307
Index of Noteworthy Places, Infamous Events, and Sundry Things	p. 313
Index of Persons Mentioned	p. 323
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