1. Culture in les Années Folles
French Culture in the 1920’s

2. Artistic Movements
Surrealism
Art-Deco
Avant-Garde
Dada

3. Literature French Poets Marcel Proust
André Breton, Surrealism Manifesto
Paul Éluard
Robert Desnos
Louis Aragon
Marcel Proust
Dies in 1922
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu published in 1929

4. French Artists Francis Picabia Pierre Bonnard Henri Matisse
Jean Metzinger
Albert Gleizes
Jean Cocteau
Pablo Picasso (Artiste Émigré)
Piet Mondrian (Artiste Émigré)

5. Dance Revue négre (1925) Ballets Suédois (Ballet revival in the 1920s)
Paul Guillaume
Ballets Suédois (Ballet revival in the 1920s)
L’Homme et son désir
Les mariés de la tour Eiffel
La création du monde
Relâche

6. Music Music halls Operetta Casino de Paris Dédé by Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett (La Miss)- “Valentine”
Operetta
Dédé by Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Yvain
Vincent Scotto
Marie Dubas
Georgius

7. Famous 1920’s French Cabarets
Moulin Rouge
Olympia
Folies-Bergere
Casino-de-Paris

8. Josephine Baker African-American singer, dancer, and entertainer
Famous for her erotic dances
Revue négre
“Danse sauvage”

9. Mistinguett French Actress and Singer
At one time, the highest paid female in the world
Signature song “Mon Homme”
Performed at cabarets in Paris

10. Maurice Chevalier French actor, singer, and entertainer
Made the operetta “Dédé”
Famous song “Valentine”
Notable movie roles
The Love Parade
The Big Pond
Always wore a boater hat and tuxedo

11. Film Silent films- “cinéma” Charles Pathé Max Linder Charlie Chaplin
Luis Buñuel
René Clair

12. Notable 1920s French Films Napoléon La Roue L’Argent Un Chien Andalou
Visage D’Enfants
Paris qui Dort
Les Trois Mousquetaires
El Dorado

13. Theatre Sacha Guitry Édouard Bourdet Marcel Pagnol “Cartel of Four”
Louis Jouvet
George Pitoeff
Charles Dullin
Gaston Baty

14. Women’s Fashion Coco Chanel
The garçonne (flapper) look
Chanel No. 5 Perfume (1920)
The little black dress (1925)
1925 Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris

15. Sports Tour de France Soccer Rugby 1924 Paris Summer Olympic Games
1924 Chamonix Winter Olympic Games

16. Government The Third Republic (1870-1940) Presidents:
Raymond Poincaré ( )
Democratic-Republican
Paul Deschanel ( )
Alexandre Millerand ( )
Independent
Gaston Doumergue ( )
Radical-Socialist
First Protestant President of France

17. Other Facts Car brand Citroën founded in 1919 in Paris
Lead car manufacturer in Europe by 1927
Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris Le Bourget airport in 1927
The last walls of Paris, the Thiers Wall, was demolished from 1919 to 1929

18. Ending of les Années Folles
American stock market crash of 1929
Effects reached France by 1931
Cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge and Olympia torn down in 1929