Paris 1940–1944

Martha Gellhorn, Django Reinhardt, Maurice Chevalier, Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, and more…

German officers taking up a lot of cafe space in Paris. Image: The Guardian

Life in Paris, between 1940–44, seemed, on the surface, to go on as usual, with The Moulin Rouge, and the Folies Bergere, along with most of the other clubs, bars, and restaurants — plus the swank stores and boutiques — open and doing good business.