Dancers from the Ballets Russes in costume for The Rite of Spring at Theatre Des Champs Elysees, Paris 1913.Photograph: Keystone/GettyGabrielle 'Coco' Chanel in 1910Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex FeaturesGeorges Clemenceau Prime Minister of France signs the peace pact with Austria which formed part of The Treaty of Versailles, Paris, June 1919 Photograph: Victor Console / Daily Mail/Rex Features
Dancers and showgirls fill the stage during a revue at Paris's Folies-Bergeres, c1920Photograph: CorbisFord Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and John Quinn outside Pound's residence in Paris, 1923. Quinn was the lawyer who defended the publication of Ulysses in The Little Review in 1921.Photograph: CSU Archv/Everett Collection/Rex FeaturesThe Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris, c1925Photograph: Keystone/GettyIgor Stravinsky (left) arrives at Croydon Airport from Paris where he was met by Serge Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes (second from left). Date unknownPhotograph: Daily Mail/Rex FeaturesThe Paris exhibition of industrial and modern decorative arts showing Rene Lalique's fountain, 1925Photograph: Roger-Viollet/Rex FeaturesSerge Lifar and Tamara Karsavina of the Ballet Russes in a publicity image for the ballet Petrouchka at the Paris opera, 1929. Music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography by Michel Fokine.Photograph: Roger-Viollet/Rex FeaturesLes Six and Jean Cocteau. From left: Darius Milhaud, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc and Louis Durey (Georges Auric, absent, appears on Jean Cocteau's drawing), 1931.Photograph: Roger-Viollet/Rex Features
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