Paris, after the War (1945-1955)
Existentialism became incarnate in the Youth, who was mad with freedom, Juliette Gréco, Boris Vian...

Existentialism was a fashion and Juliette Gréco imposed her "long"style. Boris Vian wrote "Le manuel de Saint-Germain-des-Prés", played the trumpet in nightclubs, wrote poems too, he really lived in his times and was one of the principal actors. Saint-Germain-des-Prés was a place to meet people and to become friends., a real laboratory where any proposed his form, his color, his taste, his vision of liberty, because it was all about liberty though. Arthur Koestler, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Lawrence Durrel were faithful, they were members of the PCF (the French Communist Party at that time), of the Pouilly Club of France created by Boubal, anecdotal party which bore the name of the famous white wine served at the Café. The Boss greeted at noon the Surrealist friends of André Breton, and on the evening Albert Camus or the four hussars: Nimier, Déon, Kléber Haedens and Jacques Laurent, while Albert Vidalie and Antoine Blondin began memorable "fights" with hard-boiled or even fresh eggs which spattered either the Prevert's brothers and their friends of the "October Group", or Artaud or Vian. Daniel Gélin and Danielle Delorme were young and good-looking. It was at the Café where they hid their love, Jacques Tati certainly met them, Sacha Guitry was probably envious.