It was a century ago and Paris shone - Anne Hidalgo was not born.
For three decades that we would call "Belle Époque" and "Roaring Twenties", interspersed with a terrible Great War, musicians, painters, poets, novelists, singers, composers, fashion designers came to Paris to work while having fun and having fun while working.
And incidentally write the most beautiful pages of the cultural history of the French capital.
No one better than Benoît Duteurtre could depict, show and celebrate the richness, beauty and fantasy of this period, from which the mayor of Paris struggled to erase the last architectural traces one by one (street furniture, facades, etc.).
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