The City of Paris “Paris, La Ville-Lumiere. ” Paris is known as “The City of Lights”, from its luminescent glowing lights, seen from rooftops and hotel rooms. Paris is a gorgeous site, but how was it in 1930? Paris became a place for rising artists, writers, musicians and film-makers. The city had many things new brilliant ideas from new artists such as Picasso, Braque, Man Ray and Duchamp. Many new people and things came from U. S. A. such as artists and writers like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein; they spent their years in Paris. Jazz was overwhelmingly popular in the 1930s. There were also fascist groups in France during the 1930s.
They paraded in paramilitary garb, campaigned against internationalists, socialists and Jewish people. Paris was the largest city in the Western world for over 1000 years, it is still known as one of the largest and best cities in Europe. Paris is the capital of France; it is located on the river Seine. Today Paris is one of the largest leading cultural center and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world’s major global cities. In the inter-war period, Paris was famed for its cultural and artistic communities and its nightlife.
The city became a gathering place of artists from around the world, from exiled Russian composer Stravinsky and Spanish painters Picasso and to American writer Hemingway. Paris is now full of skyscrapers, office buildings and many other new globally funded things; but it has not lost its feel of the “Golden Era”, it is forever there. Paris’ architecture hasn’t changed. Architecture in Paris is a result of the mid-19th century remodeling. The city is full of narrow streets, half-timber houses but they soon got rid of these things to put in wide streets and stone buildings.
Thomas McGrath What is there, out here on the edge, that makes our experience different from that of the city poet First there is the land itself. It has been disciplined by machines, but it is still not dominated. The plow that broke the plains is long gone and the giant tractor and the combine are here, but the process of making a living is still a struggle and a gamble-it is not a matter of ...
Most of the remodeled things are what makes Paris today. Paris’ gardens are very famous. Tuileries Garden, created in the 16th century for a palace on the banks of the Seine near the Louvre, and the Left bank Luxembourg Garden, another former private garden belonging to a chateau built for Marie de’ Medici in 1612. The Jardin des Plantes, created by Louis XIII’s doctor Guy de La Brosse for the cultivation of medicinal plants, was Paris’ first public garden. Paris, The City of Lights. Is an amazing wonderful place to be no matter what time period or decade.