# What was going on in Paris in 1912? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 4, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706 "2005-04-04T18:30:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706/21 "2005-04-05T13:28:30Z")
There was a [1979 film](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271609/) about the world’s most famous flatulist. The whole film can be legally downlaoded [here](http://www.leonardrossiter.com/Videos.html#Petomane). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706/22 "2005-04-05T15:10:47Z")
I heartily recommend the series of _bandes desinees_ of Jacques Tardi entitled “Les Aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-sec.” They’re set in pre-WWI Paris, are wonderful melodramatic thrillers featuring an anachronistically feminist newspaper reporter, and are really good architectural and fashion guides to 1910-1914 Europe. There are seven or eight in the series, and the first two have been translated into [English](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1561630012/qid=1112713578/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-2641860-0422266?v=glance&s=books). The link leads you to the second and better-written installment, _Le Demon de la Tour Eiffel_. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706/23 "2005-04-05T15:19:24Z")
They sound like fun recreational reads—but using fiction as source material for _non_fiction? I’d be drummed out of . . . well, there’s nothing to actually _be_ drummed out of, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706/24 "2005-04-05T16:13:50Z")
On the more serious side of art, [Gertrude Stein](http://ellensplace.net/gstein4.html) was in Paris in 1912, at [27, Rue de Fleurus](http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/biog/fleurus.html). The modernist painter [Othon Frieze](http://www.3d-dali.com/Artist-Biographies/Othon_Friesz.html) had just opened a studio. There were at least a couple of American painters studying at the Acadamie Moderne. Notably [Charles Demuth](http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/demuth.html), [Marsden Hartley](http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa10.htm) (arrived in April 1912) and [Edward Fisk](http://www.edwardfisk.com/newyork.html). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706/25 "2005-04-05T16:48:55Z")
Since **Exapno Mapcase** mentioned feminists, [Marie Laurencin](http://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/MarieLaurencin-1883-1956.shtml) had her first big exhibition at the Galerie Barbazanges in 1912 (don’t know the month). [Monet](http://www.hlla.com/reference/monet-chron.html) was there in July, not painting, but being diagnosed with cataracts. [Marie Curie](http://www.aip.org/history/curie/scandal2.htm) moved to Paris in October following a big scandal. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706/26 "2005-04-05T17:19:59Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > They sound like fun recreational reads—but using fiction as source material for _non_fiction? Oh, they’re not reference tools so much as a way to get your head into the period mindset. (Just disregard the plots concerning syringes of Plague sera, mysterious Assyrian demon-worship cults, and re-animated Pterodactyls.) I always dig my copies out when I want to disguise myself as a 1912 Parisian bourgeois. ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706/27 "2005-04-05T19:24:49Z")
Was that you? I _thought_ it was strange that the dashing fellow with the accent and the antique outfit was asking when the pterodactyls were expected to re-animate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-going-on-in-paris-in-1912/297706.md?page=1)