Le Combat Avec Lange De Prevert

life became firmly rooted here. All the 20th century's artists and leading intellectuals frequented Saint-Germain's bookshops, cafés and nightclubs. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were familiar figures, as were Boris Vian, Sydney Bechet, Prévert, Giacometti and many others. 30 | JUIN_JULLET 2012 - www.cotemagazine.com -/ Although nostalgics pine for its intellectual and artistic past, you can't help but notice that this quarter is still like a concentrated mix of Paris past and present

rebellion, was jailed for long periods for his role in the revolutions of 1830, 1848 and 1871, and Henri-Alphonse Esquiros (1812–76), a religious poet who made violence the Évangile du peuple (1840), spent the Second Empire in England. A littérature de combat emerged which departed from the traditional preoccupations of literature. Graphic accounts of working-class hardship, like Agricol Perdiguier’s Livre du compagnonnage (1839), documented a case which was promoted noisily in inflammatory newspapers and