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Cristina Carmona Aliaga's avatar

This piece has ticked so many boxes for me as someone with a soft spot for Paris in the interwar period and the many writers and artists that flocked there. Beyond the romanticisation, it's always interesting to see the contributions that these people made in their adopted cities/countries and how had they not been there, maybe events would have taken a different turn. It comes to mind how Sylvia Beach from Shakespeare & Co, was the original publisher of Ulysses by James Joyce (she also pushed him to complete it) and how she managed to smuggle it to the US. If Joyce hadn't lived in Paris, he wouldn't had met Beach and maybe Ulysses wouldn't have been written at all!

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

Fascinating info. The cross-Atlantic expat-ting is something. I never put together how many ships ‘passed in the night.’ Loved this.

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