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Although it may sound like just a geographic location, "Rive Gauche" or "Left Bank" generally refers to the Paris of an earlier era - the 1920s and 1930s. The Paris of artists, writers and philosophers, including Erik Satie, Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Edith Wharton, Henri Matisse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and dozens of other members of the great artistic community. The phrase implies a sense of Bohemianism, counterculture, and creativity. During this era, Paris was the heart of intellectual and artistic life, where movements were born in nightly Salons over wine, live jazz and conversation. We celebrate the CREATIVITY of this period in time.
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