THE LIBERATION BROUGHT AUSTERE EXISTENTIALISM* AND EXUBERANT BE-BOP.
*Man is alone and must choose his way, an idea that fit the wartime choice between supporting the Resistance and passivity.
Images of the time
Juliette Gréco and Jean-Paul Sartre are to the right
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To our Glories of the 6th Arrondissement (upper level) by Georges Patrix, 1951 / zoom |
Café Le Flore, which Simone de Beauvoir describes
Video / zoom
Juliette Gréco on boulevard Saint-Germain in front of a café
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The rollicking jitterbug
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Same time and place  |
No more room!
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian, a friend and Simone de Beauvoir
Boris Vian, jazzman and writer
Albert Camus, writer and activist
The legend
Symbols: The steeple and Gréco
Movies
Rendez-vous de juillet ("Meeting in July) 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
that in any case was incompatible
with the coming economic transformation.
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