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
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1939
1 moment here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sigmund Freud
in 1938
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Simone de Beauvoir
from 1925 to 1939
6 moments here
French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Born and died in Paris, Beauvoir studied philosophy in Paris,…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1935
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
T. S. Eliot
from 1920 to 1922
2 moments here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Woodrow Wilson
from 1918 to 1919
5 moments here
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American academic, governor of New Jersey, and the 28th president of the United States.…
Zhou Enlai
in 1922
1 moment here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…