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Called ‘the Eye of Paris’ by his friend the author Henry Miller, the legendary photographer created a striking body of work that documented high – and low – society in Paris between the first and second world wars
If you were to hang around Montmartre after sundown in the 1920s & 30s, it's likely you were looking for something a little more Avant-Garde than what you might find on the Parisian Left Bank. At the time, it was a haven for struggling artists, bohemians, burlesque dancers, straying husbands as
“Le Monocle Club in Montmartre, Paris, 1932. Photograph by Brassai.”
La Garçonne by Yves Dieÿ, 1920
If you were to hang around Montmartre after sundown in the 1920s & 30s, it's likely you were looking for something a little more Avant-Garde than what you might find on the Parisian Left Bank. At the time, it was a haven for struggling artists, bohemians, burlesque dancers, straying husbands as
If you were to hang around Montmartre after sundown in the 1920s & 30s, it's likely you were looking for something a little more Avant-Garde than what you might find on the Parisian Left Bank. At the time, it was a haven for struggling artists, bohemians, burlesque dancers, straying husbands as
Le Monocle, un club nocturo de lesbianas en el París de los años 30
Lesbian couple at Le Monocle, Paris (1932) Le Monocle Location: Edgar-Quinet Boulevard, Montmartre, Paris, France Opened: 1920s Closed: Ear1y 1940s During the 1920s, Paris "gained a reputation for the variety of its nighttime pleasures and for its free and easy attitude toward life in general." As a result, "many specialized same-sex establishments" opened. Among these was Le Monocle, which is credited with being "one of the first, and certainly the most famous of lesbian nightclubs." It was opened by Lulu de Montparnasse in the Montmartre area, which at that time was "the main gathering place for Parisian lesbians." Young invert at Le Monocle, Paris (1932) As Florence Tamagne further explains, lesbians during that time were often found sitting together at Montmartre's "outdoor cafes or dancing at the Moulin Rouge." As for Le Monocle, "All the women there dressed as men, in Tuxedos, and wore their hair in a bob." Why the name Le Monocle? It seems that sporting a monocle had become something of a lesbian "uniform" in those days. Even the writer Colette observed that "mannish women" often affected a monocle and "a white carnation in the buttonhole." Regarding the photograph pictured above by Georges Brassai, Henry Allen reported the following back in 1999: Knowing events to come, you have a hard time not seeing degeneracy and horror when you look at "Lesbian Couple at Le Monocle, Paris," from 1932. A wistful woman in an evening dress cuddles against a woman in necktie and man-combed hair, identified later as Violette Moriss, a weightlifting champion who had a double mastectomy. During World War II, she collaborated with the Gestapo and tortured women prisoners. The Resistance killed her in 1944. Bar at Le Monocle (Mid 1930s) In later years, a bar called the New Monocle opened in the Montmartre area, but it was not the same establishment as the former Le Monocle. The New Monocle is apparently a swinger's club. Classic 1932 photo by the great Parisian photographer, Georges Brassai, of a lesbian couple at the infamous “Le Monocle,” owned by Lulu de Montparnasse. Also "Young invert at Le Monocle, Paris" (1932)--also by Brassai.
During the 1920s Paris had gained a reputation for the variety of its nighttime pleasures and for its free and easy attitude toward life in general. Within this climate of…
If you were to hang around Montmartre after sundown in the 1920s & 30s, it's likely you were looking for something a little more Avant-Garde than what you might find on the Parisian Left Bank. At the time, it was a haven for struggling artists, bohemians, burlesque dancers, straying husbands as
These are what everyday life in France looked like in the early 1930s. "Le Monocle" - Special lesbians cabaret in Montmartre. Paris, 19...
Le Monocle, un club nocturo de lesbianas en el París de los años 30
Le Monocle, 1920s. Le Monocle was a Lesbian bar in the Montmartre section of Paris. It was a fad that lesbians started wearing monocles to indicate sexual preference.
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This riff on the Death in the Afternoon is a cocktail recipe featuring absinthe, dry sparkling wine, Angostura and Peychaud’s bitters.
They called him "the Einstein of Sex". The German doctor who went (quite literally) where no other had gone before in his research, founding the massive Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or Sexology, just before the Nazis eclipsed bohemian Berlin and its costumed, sexually liberated splendour. His na
Brassaï Lulu de Montparnasse with a Friend at the Lesbian Bar “Le Monocle,” Paris 1933
If you were to hang around Montmartre after sundown in the 1920s & 30s, it's likely you were looking for something a little more Avant-Garde than what you might find on the Parisian Left Bank. At the time, it was a haven for struggling artists, bohemians, burlesque dancers, straying husbands as
These are what everyday life in France looked like in the early 1930s. "Le Monocle" - Special lesbians cabaret in Montmartre. Paris, 19...
Depuis son lancement en 2007, Monocle entretient un lien riche et profond avec le Japon. Dès le premier jour, le magazine a eu un bureau à Tokyo - qui comprend aujourd'hui également une boutique Monocle et des studios de radio - dirigé sous l'œil attentif de la chef du bureau Asie Fiona Wilson. Au cours de la dernière décennie, le magazine a développé une compréhension et une passion uniques pour la nation. Il a couvert tout, d'un voyage de la vie sur le jet de l'empereur et les endroits les plus savoureux pour manger à Kagoshima aux créateurs de mode créant de nouveaux niveaux d'excellence et aux entreprises avec des histoires remarquables inédites en dehors du Japon. Ce nouveau livre révèle le meilleur de la nation à l'approche des Jeux olympiques de 2020. Complet avec de superbes photographies et des essais intrigants, c'est une vitrine unique d'un pays qui pour beaucoup reste un mystère. Dimensions: 22,5 × 30 cm Langue: français
