La otra mitad de París

Sometimes we confuse Paris with the bohemian image of the left bank of the Seine, the well-known rive gauche. But, in the interwar period, the main stage of the artistic, literary and mundane life of the City of Light was the other shore: the forgotten rive droite. After the disaster of the Great War, the winds of revolution were blowing in customs and arts. Those were the years of the emancipation of women, of frenetic dances and political action, of surrealist provocation and the birth of the modern novel. The years of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, Raymond Roussel, Marcel Duchamp, Elsa Triolet, Simone de Beauvoir, André Malraux, Marcel Proust, Colette, Vita Sackville-West, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Genet, Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Sonia Delaunay, Marina Tsvietáeva, Isadora Duncan, Stefan Zweig... And many others who turned the right bank into the center of the world.