What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their hey-day, roughly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on the Hill of Martyrs, and 1920, when Amedeo Modigliani, justly called ‘the prince of Bohemians’, died of consumption and dissipation in Montparnasse? This book, written by an Englishman who lived in Montmartre for 30 years and knew its famous habitue intimately, gives a vivid description. It reveals the truth behind the many legends, is packed with authentic stories about writers and painters whose names are now household words, and contains much hitherto unpublished information about the life and career of Modigliani obtained from his family and friends. Much of the text was written in Montmartre amid the scenes described, and after personal consultation with survivors of the great days when Frede presided over the Lapin Agile and Libion, patron of the Cafe de la Rotonde, was beginning to rival him in Montparnasse. It is the most complete account which has yet been written in English of the birth of Cubism and other contemporary movements in modern painting, and of the lives and loves who started them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A vivid account of Bohemian Paris at the birth of Cubism and other movements, with Modigliani as hero among other artists and writers now legends.
PREFACE page 9
\nPART ONE: MONTMARTRE
\nI. MONTMARTRE FROM MEDIEVAL TIMES 17
\nII. THE ‘LAPIN A GILL’ 23
\n111. THE ‘BATEAU-LAVOIR’ 39
\nIV. MODIGLIANI’S EARLY DAYS 65
\nV. MODIGLIANJ REACHES MONTMARTRE 74
\nVI. FROM BOURGEOIS TO BOHEMIAN 85
\nVII. THE ‘DEMON OF GENIUS’ 93
\nVIII. DEALERS OF THE BUTTE 100
\nJX. ELVIJlA-‘LA QUIQUE’ 103
\nX. WANDERING JEW 110
\nPART TWO: MONT PARNASSE
\nXI. MONTPARNASSE 129
\nXII . THE CAFE DE LA ROTONDE 140
\nXIII. BOHEMIANS AND GRISETTES 149
\nXIV. AICHA, QUEEN OF MODELS 165
\nXV. PASCIN 168
\nXVI. KIKI 179
\nXVI!. AMERICANS IN MONTPARNASSE 185
\nXVIII . THE RETURN OF MODIGLIANI 192
\nXIX. NINA HAMNETT 210
\nXX. AUGUST 1914 218
\nXXI. THE ENGLISH POETESS 224
\nXXII. A PARTY AT KISLING’S 237
\nXXIII . SIMONE: LA CANADIENNE 246
\nXXIV. T HE POET- DEALER 251
\nXXV. JEANNE HEBUTERNE 264
\nXXVI. MONTPA RN ASSE-BY- THE-SEA 273
\nXXVIJ. MODl’S LAST DAYS 284
\nXXVIII. THE TRAGEDY OF JEANNE 296
\nXXIX. THE DEATH OF SIMONE 303
\nXXX. ZBOROWSKI 309
\nXXXI. KISLING’ S MEMORIES 322
\nXXXII. FRITZ SANDAHL LOOKS BACK 326
\nEPILOGUE 338
\nAPPENDIXES
\nI. MONTPARN ASSE, BY T . W. EARP 343
\nII. BOOKS CONSULTED 346
\nINDEX 347<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39155","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-charles-douglas","8":"publisher-pallas-athene","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n