Left Bank
Seine's southern shore
The Left Bank is the southern side of the Seine in Paris, historically associated with artists, writers, intellectuals, and bohemian culture.
The area includes the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, home to cafés where Hemingway, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir gathered.
She dreamed of living on the Left Bank.
The term evokes creative nonconformity and literary romance. (Lowercase left bank describes any river's left side when facing downstream.)
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- Lost GenerationDisillusioned postwar literary cohort
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
Simone de Beauvoir · Gertrude Stein · James Joyce · F. Scott Fitzgerald · café · salon · intellectuals · writers
Major French waterway
- Latin QuarterParisian intellectual district
- MontparnasseParis arts district
- SorbonneFamous Parisian academic institution
- Musée d'OrsayParisian Impressionist museum
Spanish cubism co-founder
- Toulouse-LautrecFin-de-siècle lithographer
- paintingPigment on canvas
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- gallerySpace for displaying artwork
Manet · atelier · studio · impressionism · cubism · surrealism · modernism · avant-garde
Hemingway
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- Lost GenerationDisillusioned postwar literary cohort
Simone de Beauvoir · Gertrude Stein · James Joyce · F. Scott Fitzgerald · existentialism · café · salon · intellectuals · writers · philosophers
Seine
Major French waterway
- Latin QuarterParisian intellectual district
- MontparnasseParis arts district
- SorbonneFamous Parisian academic institution
Musée d'Orsay · Pantheon · Notre-Dame · Île de la Cité · arrondissement
Picasso
Spanish cubism co-founder
- Toulouse-LautrecFin-de-siècle lithographer
- paintingPigment on canvas
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
Manet · gallery · atelier · studio · impressionism · cubism · surrealism · modernism · avant-garde · canvas
- FranceParis, Notre-Dame, Lyon, croissant, Toulouse
- French Culturebaguette, baguettes, beret, berets, brie
- ParisEiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre-Dame, Seine, Montmartre
- Art Scenesart scene, New York art scene, art colony, artist colony, art world
- Belle EpoqueMoulin Rouge, cancan, can-can, absinthe, Art Nouveau
- French ModernismMarcel Proust, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Colette
Left Bankestablishment
Founded organization or venue
mainstream · commercial district · Wall Street · Madison Avenue · corporate culture
left, bank, leftward, leftmost, banking, banks, banked, banker