‘ “This is the first time …’: Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau, p. 54
‘We could hear nothing …’: Gertrude Stein, Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, p. 150
‘Montparnasse knew nothing of …’: Cocteau, Professional Secrets, p. 54
‘Much laughter, much applause …’: Beatrice Hastings in The New Age, no. 1132, vol. XV, no. 2., Thursday, 28 May 1914, p. 91
‘quick and fireworky …’: ibid.
‘the street I used to take …’: Beatrice Hastings in The New Age, no. 1133, vol. XV, no. 3., Thursday, 21 May 1914, p. 68
‘like a seigneur …’: Olivier Renault, Montparnasse: Les Lieux de légende, p. 31
‘trees that have leaves …’: Beatrice Hastings in The New Age, no. 1135, vol. XV, no. 6, 11 June 1914, p. 139
‘the bad garçon …’: ibid. no. 1134, vol. XV, no. 5, 4 June 1914, p. 115
‘genius of evil’: Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, French Cinema from Its Beginnings to the Present, p. 43
‘You mustn’t go to sleep …’: Beatrice Hastings in The New Age, no. 6, 11 June 1914, p. 138
‘Ah!’ …: ibid.
‘That is where la belle Américaine …’: ibid.
‘This woman’s name is …’: Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror, in Maldoror and The Complete Works, p. 33
‘The wind groans …’: ibid., p. 34
‘arrive’: Beatrice Hastings in The New Age, no. 1138, vol. XV, no. 9, 2 July 1914, p. 210
‘Superbe!’ ‘Magnifique!’ …: ibid.
‘tawdry finery’: Guillaume Apollinaire, ‘Picasso, Painter and Draftsman’, in Leroy C. Breunig (ed.), Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews, 1902–1918, p. 13
‘the presence of real …’: ibid.
‘ces traces d’êtres’: Guillaume Apollinaire, ‘Marcel Duchamp’, in Les Peintres cubistes, pp. 100–103 (p. 102)
‘golden section’: see Jean Suquet, Preface to Guillaume Apollinaire, Marcel Duchamp, 1910–1918, p. 7; see also Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Peintres cubistes, pp. 44–5
‘lost interest in groups’: Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography, p. 80
‘ambiance’: Giorgio de Chirico, The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico, p. 65
‘metaphysical’: ibid., p. 68
‘exceedingly solitary …’: ibid., p. 67
‘a kind of atmosphere of terror …’: ibid.
‘nefarious’: ibid., p. 68
‘real objects to the light …’: Guillaume Apollinaire, ‘Pablo Picasso’, in Breunig (ed.), Apollinaire on Art, p. 279
‘real or in trompe-l’œil’: ibid., p. 279
‘La mère de la concierge …/The concierge’s mother …’: Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone: Selected Poems, pp. 164–5
‘Écoutez-moi …/Listen to me …’: ibid., pp. 128–9
‘J’allume au feu …/I light my cigarette …’: ibid., pp. 130–31
‘nothing is more reminiscent of …’: Francis Steegmuller, Apollinaire: Poet among the Painters, p. 211
‘ “evil women” of history and mythology’: Mark Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (2nd edn), p. 18