Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review
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Jenna Guarascio added
A reminder that while we assess culture we are also culture. The simple act of living is the participation.
ne of those would be the overlapping Parisian milieu that each occupied, frequently bumping shoulders at salons at which one could find such members of the cultural elite as Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola and the painter Henri Fantin-Latour. Manet/Degas also shows how the two men would be among the few artists to remain and defend Paris during the
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Madame Lapierre came from an upper-class, highly educated family. For her entire life she had lived in the sixteenth arrondissement, close to Passy, and I struggled to picture Father in those spaces. I imagined him sitting on the edge of a leather couch, or always staring out of a window, wanting to be elsewhere. I was relieved he wasn’t from Paris
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Paris, délimité d’un côté par l’Arc de Triomphe et de l’autre par la place de la Concorde. La rue Saint-Denis avec ses voyous et ses putes, proposant ouvertement aux passants leurs marchandises et leurs corps, artère morte le jour mais vibrante de sexe et de danger, de désir et de violence quand le soleil se couche. Montparnasse plein d’intellectue
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