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Montmartre: A Cultural History

Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures 45

By (author) Nicholas Hewitt
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Published: 30th Jun 2017
Dimensions: w 170mm h 243mm d 34mm
Weight: 625g
ISBN-10: 178694023X
ISBN-13: 9781786940230
Barcode No: 9781786940230
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Synopsis
'What is Montmartre? Nothing. What must it be? Everything', proclaimed Rodolphe Salis in 1881, when his cabaret Le Chat Noir launched an entertainment boom in the 9th and 18th Arrondissements of Paris which would dominate the worlds of popular and high culture until the First World War. Montmartre's music-halls, circuses, cinemas, accompanied by extra frisson of crime and prostitution, coexisted with burgeoning art movements sprung from the cabarets, which spearheaded the avant-garde in painting, theatre and literature. The story, however, did not end in 1914 and Montmartre retained its role as a magnet for tourists, lured by the Moulin-Rouge and the Sacre-Coeur, and, despite the competition from Montparnasse, as a major centre for artistic creativity in the inter-war years. Crucial to this continuity was, not merely the survival of many of the most important players from the pre-War period, but especially the role of the humorous press and the Montmartre caricaturists and illustrators who congregated in the Restaurant Maniere. In this new study, Nicholas Hewitt charts the continuity of Montmartre culture from the Belle Epoque to the Occupation through its many overlapping frontiers and explores its vital ingredients of sexuality, kitsch, bohemia, mass culture and the political and social ambiguities of such a mixture.

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'For readers
interested in an intellectual tour of Montmartre, Nicholas Hewitt's new guide
to its cultural history and kaleidoscopic self-presentation comes warmly
recommended...attractively illustrated and engagingly written.'

Jessica Wardhaugh, Modern Language Review