THE LIBERATION BROUGHT AUSTERE EXISTENTIALISM* AND THE EXUBERANT BOOGIE, BOTH PART OF LIFE IN CAFÉS
*Man is alone and must choose his way, an idea that fit the wartime choice between supporting the Resistance and passivity.
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À nos gloires du 6e arrondissement by Georges Patrix, 1951 / zoom |
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian, an unidentified friend and Simone de Beauvoir
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Rendez-vous de juillet by Jacques Becker
A movie about post-war youth, made in 1949
The neighborhood's fame
brought an influx of tourists.
They hastened the end of a fête
incompatible with the
economic transformation of the 1960's.
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