Boussoles particulières. Arts décoratifs – Arts appliqués the historical and political framework

the historical and political framework of their work

cataloguées et illustrées pour la première fois dans une formidable encyclopédie du surnaturel

since it has become the place of digging and drama

from the collection of the Musée de Montmartre as well as from public and private collections

October 1958

Boussoles particulières. Arts décoratifs – Arts appliqués the historical and political frameworkLon Paul Fargue, born in Paris in 1876, became friends with many artists, musicians, and writers who frequented the cabarets of Montmartre. While he became known as a chronicler of the high society and popular life of Paris during the Belle poque, he was above all a poet of tenderness and a restrained lyricism that most often took the form of nostalgia. This love of the past, of the vanished, is found here in the portraits he paints of the great