1920s Paris

Paris is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s La Ville des lumi?res gleams especially bright and becomes a magnet for creative people from around the world. This is the decade of Coco Chanel and Josephine Baker, Art Deco and Surrealism, caf? culture and cabaret. The most famous artists of the epoch, later called Classic Modernism, are in close contact and have lively exchanges with one another - including Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Ren? Clair, Sonia Delaunay, Andr? Breton, Paul ?luard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dal?. The creative life and all its excesses flourish - boh?me is the word for this way of living. Composers like Igor Stravinsky, writers like James Joyce or Ernest Hemingway and exiles from Eastern Europe like Constantin Brancuşi or Marc Chagall enrich the illustrious scene on Montparnasse. The pulsing bars and dance halls of Montmartre are captured by photographers Andr? Kertesz and Brassa?. The French economy is booming and luxury department st