Paris in the Interwar Period
The atlas holds 55 people and 100 moments here, from 1918 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Édith Piaf, Simone de Beauvoir and Woodrow Wilson.
Notable people
Jiddu Krishnamurti
from 1920 to 1924
2 moments here
Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
John Maynard Keynes
in 1919
1 moment here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
Jomo Kenyatta
in 1936
1 moment here
Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…
José Raúl Capablanca
in 1938
1 moment here
Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…
Katherine Mansfield
from 1918 to 1922
2 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Le Corbusier
in 1924
1 moment here
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
from 1928 to 1938
4 moments here
Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1927
1 moment here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1931
1 moment here
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Marcel Proust
in 1922
1 moment here
French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known for À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).…
Marguerite Duras
from 1931 to 1933
2 moments here
French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu.…
Marie Curie
from 1919 to 1921
2 moments here
Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
from 1923 to 1925
2 moments here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Muhammad Iqbal
in 1932
1 moment here
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was a South Asian philosopher, poet, lawyer, and political figure.…
Octavio Paz
in 1937
1 moment here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Pablo Neruda
from 1935 to 1937
2 moments here
Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
Pablo Picasso
from 1918 to 1937
3 moments here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Pridi Banomyong
from 1927 to 1933
2 moments here
Thai lawyer, political leader, regent, prime minister, and founder of Thammasat University. A civilian leader of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, he…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1920
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Ravi Shankar
in 1930
1 moment here
Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) was a leading exponent of Hindustani classical music whose performances, teaching, recordings,…
Saint-John Perse
from 1932 to 1939
2 moments here
Saint-John Perse was the pen name of Alexis Léger, a French poet and diplomat. Born in Guadeloupe, he spent formative years in Pau and Bordeaux,…
Salvador Dalí
from 1926 to 1934
3 moments here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sarah Bernhardt
in 1923
1 moment here
French stage and early film actress, born Henriette-Rosine Bernard in Paris. Bernhardt became an international theatrical star through performances…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1924
1 moment here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Moments
- 1928 Arrival for study in Paris Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1929 Moves into the Paris art world Salvador Dalí
- 1929 Teaching at Lycée Victor-Duruy Simone de Beauvoir
- 1929 Hospitalization at Hopital Cochin George Orwell
- 1930 Sciences Po studies and Paris residence Bảo Đại
- 1930 Street-singing residence at Grand Hôtel de Clermont Édith Piaf
- 1930 Move to Paris with Uday Shankar's dance group Ravi Shankar
- 1931 Return to Paris from London James Joyce
- 1931 Sorbonne studies Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1931 Studies at École technique Scientia Marguerite Duras
- 1931 Receives the Legion of Honour in Paris Charlie Chaplin
- 1931 Tour of France Helen Keller
- 1931 Leaves London and speaks in Paris Mahatma Gandhi
- 1932 Meetings with Bergson and Massignon Muhammad Iqbal
- 1932 Secretary-General at the Quai d'Orsay Saint-John Perse
- 1932 Birth in Paris Jacques Chirac
- 1933 Painting studies in Paris Claude Simon
- 1933 University studies in Paris Marguerite Duras
- 1933 Paris during exile Pridi Banomyong
- 1934 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré apartment Igor Stravinsky
- 1934 Marries Gala in Paris Salvador Dalí
- 1934 Birth in Paris Brigitte Bardot
- 1935 Military service at Caserne Lourcine Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1935 Writers' congress in Paris Pablo Neruda
- 1935 International Astronomical Union meeting Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1935 Professional debut at Le Gerny's Édith Piaf
- 1936 Stay in Paris Jomo Kenyatta
- 1936 Teaching at Lycée Molière Simone de Beauvoir
- 1936 Committee meeting in Paris Gabriela Mistral
- 1936 Journey through Paris en route to Spain George Orwell
- 1937 Teaching in Paris before the war Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1937 Return to Paris Pablo Neruda
- 1937 Bobino engagement Édith Piaf
- 1937 First ABC music-hall appearance Édith Piaf
- 1937 Paints Guernica at Grands-Augustins Pablo Picasso
- 1937 Colloquium of Arts and Letters Gabriela Mistral
- 1937 Arrival in Paris for the writers' congress journey Octavio Paz
- 1937 Attends the Spanish Pavilion opening Pablo Picasso
- 1937 World Brain speech at documentation congress H. G. Wells
- 1938 Paris tournament victory José Raúl Capablanca
- 1938 Teaching in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1938 Third ABC engagement Édith Piaf
- 1938 Arrives in Paris during exile journey Sigmund Freud
- 1938 First top billing at L'Européen Édith Piaf
- 1938 Top-billed appearance at Bobino Édith Piaf
- 1939 Paris exhibition trip Frida Kahlo
- 1939 Meeting with Ambassador Bullitt during the Danzig crisis Saint-John Perse
- 1939 Teaching at Lycée Camille-Sée Simone de Beauvoir
- 1939 Teaching at Lycée Henri-IV Simone de Beauvoir
- 1939 Final family gathering in Paris before wartime departure Sergei Rachmaninoff