A Piece of Paris: The Grand XIVth

by Gregory Masurovsky

The XIVth arrondissement of Paris, of which Montparnasse is the heart, is positively pervaded with the history of 20th century art and literature. The author writes not only about the famous such as Matisse, Picasso, Josephine Baker, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Joyce, and Gide, but about the Germans in the Cafe du Dome before 1914, the outlandish happening reeking of garlic sausage and red wine at the opening of Victor Hugo's play, Hernani, the story of the now forgotten American women of color and their studios in the XIVth, the story of the banquet to honor the Symbolist poet Paul Fort which the Surrealists turned into a food and fist fight requiring the police and the paddy wagon, and much more!

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Published October 15, 1996