Literary Tour : The Lost Generation in 1920s Paris

There is a famous saying : "Everyone has 2 countries, their own & France".  This was especially true for numerous artists, writers & jazz musicians between the 2 World Wars, many of whom flocked to Paris not only for artistic inspiration but also to find themselves. Known as the Lost Generation, these were men & women who had suffered through WW1. Eager to share ideas they would gather in the numerous cafés of Montparnasse to work & to drink . We will visit the places where these people lived, worked & partied…bearing in mind that the bohemian Left Bank of starving artists & struggling writers has now given way to chic boutiques & high end bistros. What makes this tour unique: the rich photographic & literary content that brings the period to life, selected excerpts of novels & poems, as well as archival recordings of the authors reading their work. Two variants for this tour are available on demand : - Focus on the Poets of the Lost Generation - Focus on the LGBTQ Community of 1920s Paris

- Mouffetard district, where Hemingway discovered the bohemian life of an expat writer & James Joyce finished writing his groundbreaking novel, Ulysses; - Pantheon district, where TS Eliot, lifelong francophile, spent a year soaking up the culture; - St Germain, the literary district, where Sylvia Beach opened her bookshop Shakespeare & Company; - Luxembourg Gardens, where. . . - William Faulkner lived for 6 months & discovered modernism; - Man Ray, famed surrealist artist & celebrity photographer, had his studio; - Hemingway moved to a posh flat with wife #2 & published his 1st novel; - the Fitzgeralds moved just months after Scott published his masterpiece The Great Gatsby; - Gertrude Stein, self-proclaimed creative genius & leading light of the Lost Generation, held her famed salon; - Montparnasse, we end of the tour over coffee (or cocktails !) in one of the legendary Montparnasse cafes, where Hemingway wrote his 1st novel & met up with fellow Lost Generation authors.