CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1.     SCRAP HEAP OF THE GODS: MONTPARNASSE AND LES MONTPARNOS

CHAPTER 2.     WILD IN THE STREETS: LES APACHES

CHAPTER 3.     THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING: DIAGHILEV AND THE BALLETS RUSSES

CHAPTER 4.     “WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?”: FANTÔMAS, THE VAMPIRES, AND JUDEX

CHAPTER 5.     A WELL-DRSSED WAR: PARIS IN WORLD WAR I

CHAPTER 6.     THE FIRST LADY OF BOHEMIA: SYLVIA BEACH AND SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY

CHAPTER 7.     PERFUME WARS: BOTTLING THE BLUE HOUR

CHAPTER 8.     WHERE THE 20TH CENTURY WAS: GERTRUDE STEIN AND HER SALON
—DUELLING PAINTERS: MATISSE VS. PICASSO

CHAPTER 9.     THE KINDEST CUT: THE BOB FAD AND THE GARÇONNE SCANDAL

CHAPTER 10.   A KILLER NAMED DESIRE: THE BUSINESSLIKE M. LANDRU

CHAPTER 11.   MONKEY BUSINESS: SERGE VORONOFF AND THE QUEST FOR YOUTH

CHAPTER 12.   FARAWAY PLACES: THE BIRTH OF TOURISM

CHAPTER 13.   FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER, MEANER: THE 1924 OLYMPIC GAMES

CHAPTER 14.   “LITTLE GIRL, CAN YOU DO THE CHARLESTON?”: LE JAZZ HOT

CHAPTER 15.   ARTIFICIAL PARADISES: ABSINTHE, OPIUM, AND THE CULTURE OF FORGETTING

CHAPTER 16.   IN THE WHITE CITY: THE BIRTH OF ART DÉCO

CHAPTER 17.   THE MAN WHO SOLD THE EIFFEL TOWER: THE VICTOR LUSTIG AND STAVISKY SCANDALS

CHAPTER 18.   AS THOUGH IT KNEW: THE UNKNOWN WOMAN OF THE SEINE

CHAPTER 19.   OF THEE I SING: AMERICAN SONGWRITERS IN PARIS

CHAPTER 20.   BLACK AS THE DEVIL, HOT AS HELL, PURE AS AN ANGEL, SWEET AS LOVE: COFFEE AND THE CAFÉ

CHAPTER 21.   LITTLE GENTLEMEN: GAY AND LESBIAN PARIS

CHAPTER 22.   THE RAZOR AND THE EYE: LUIS BUÑUEL, SALVADOR DALÍ, AND SURREALISM

CHAPTER 23.   THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF MONTPARNASSE: HEMINGWAY’S KNOCKOUT

CHAPTER 24.   A HALF-CRAZED CAD: THE WILD RIDE OF HARRY AND CARESSE CROSBY

CHAPTER 25.   LOVE FOR SALE: MAISONS CLOSES AND POULES DE LUXE

CHAPTER 26.   WASP AND PEAR: THE FITZGERALDS AND THE MURPHYS

THE GOLDEN MOMENTS OF PARIS: WALKING TOURS

I.     SEINE LEFT BANK WALK

II.    LATIN QUARTER, ST. GERMAIN AND ODEON WALK

III.   MONTPARNASSE WALK

IV.    TROCADERO WALK