Les Annees Folles: Paris in the Twenties

As Paris emerged from the ashes of the Great War into a new decade, in the wake of deprivation, decadence flourished and a wave of hedonism swept through the city. Paris became the centre of modernity and creativity in the heyday before the worldwide depressions brought on by the Wall Street crash of 1929. With economic prosperity came easier travel and trade. The city of light drew people like a magnet in search of the intellectual, artistic and sexual freedom only the French capital could offer.