Paris Salons, Cafes, Studios: Being Social, Artistic and Literary Memories

366 pp. CONTENTS: A Cocktail Epoch; Parisian Nights Entertainments; Two Boulevardiers; Wit and Humour; Should the Intellectual Enter Politics?; Expatriates and Visitors; Lectures and Debates; A Studio in the Sky; A Quarter That Tries; Anatole France and His Boswells; Some Famous Paris Salons; Elegance and Letters; The Tragedy of a Dancer; The House of the Friends of Books; Shakespeare and Company; Cafes and Bars; Boulevards, La Butte, Latin Quarter; A Cosmopolitan Bunch; Dancers and Queens; Morbidity, Perversity, Snobbery; The Cult of "Moi"; There Were Giants in Those Days; Overseas Painters and Writers; In the Shadow of the Odeon; The Two Academies; Some Notable French Women.