LASTING CHANGE: EUROPE'S CAPITAL OF MOVIES AND JAZZ

A DOZEN SMALL MOVIE-HOUSES SHOW A NUMBER OF FILMS AT THE SAME TIME

That is how Paris presents 200 different films each day.

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Jazz was thought a music of savages, too gripping to be serious. Or too sensual: "to jazz" meant "to fornicate." By admiring its intellectuality and rigor the prestigious philosophers of Saint-Germain gave it its letters of nobility.

   L'Histoire de la France par bd [comic strips] (Larousse, 1978)

Among the many movies, Round Midnight

By Bertrand Tavernier with Dexter Gordon, 1986 / zoom

Saint-Germain hosts a jazz festival each year...

"Unique concerts in exceptional sites"

And in this "cave"* the jitterbug has been danced every night since 1946.

*A medieval cellar, where music did not disturb neighbors (though the youthful crowds did).

Le Caveau de la Huchette / Claude Abron

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"I always wanted to visit Saint-Germain. I came, and brought my trumpet."

Pamela Spurdon

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