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The Années folles (French pronunciation: [ane fɔl], "crazy years" in French) was the decade of the 1920s in France. It was coined to describe the social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of the period. [1] The same period is also referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age in the United States.
20th-century French art developed out of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism that dominated French art at the end of the 19th century. The first half of the 20th century in France saw the even more revolutionary experiments of Cubism , Dada and Surrealism , artistic movements that would have a major impact on western, and eventually world ...
Although the crisis of the post-world war context led to a decrease in cultural and artistic flare during the 1920s in Paris, the political, social and economic situation in France inspired the movement which was to be The Lost Generation (Les Années Folles) Although coined by Gertrude Stein, [1] it was Ernest Hemingway who promulgated this term. [2]
Interwar France covers the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural and social history of France from 1918 to 1939. France suffered heavily during World War I in terms of lives lost, disabled veterans and ruined agricultural and industrial areas occupied by Germany as well as heavy borrowing from the United States, Britain, and the French people.
The ordinary budget for 1920 provided for a revenue of 15,885,000,000 francs and for an expenditure of 17,860,000,000 francs. It was anticipated that the extraordinary expenditure would amount to over 7,000,000,000 francs. 2 February - France occupies the Memel Territory of East Prussia. 23 February–4 March, 4–29 May - 1920 French railway ...
Les Halles street market in 1920. Continuing, The population of Paris had been 2,888,107 in 1911, before the war. It grew to 2,906,472 in 1921, its historic high. [6] Many young Parisians were killed in the First World War, though a smaller proportion than from the rest of France, but this ended the steady population growth Paris had had before the war, and caused an imbalance in the ...
The French Theater of the Absurd (1991) Hatzfeld, Helmut Anthony. Trends and styles in twentieth century French literature (1966) Higgins, Ian. "French Poetry of the Great War." AGENDA (2014) 48#3-4 pp: 159-170. Kidd, William, and Sian Reynolds, eds. Contemporary French cultural studies (Routledge, 2014) Kritzman, Lawrence D., and Brian J ...
That would be compounded by the massive French losses of World War I, roughly estimated at 1.4 million French dead including civilians (or nearly 10% of the active adult male population) and four times as many wounded — and World War II, estimated at 593,000 French dead (one-and-a-half times the number of American dead), of which 470,000 were ...