Paris in World War I
The atlas holds 15 people and 20 moments here, from 1914 to 1918. The most recorded lives are Katherine Mansfield, Pablo Picasso and Le Corbusier.
Notable people
Édith Piaf
in 1915
1 moment here
French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…
Ernest Hemingway
in 1918
1 moment here
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Hemingway’s documented movements ranged from Illinois and Michigan to Italy in World War I,…
Jorge Luis Borges
in 1914
1 moment here
Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
José Raúl Capablanca
in 1914
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 1914 to 1918
3 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Le Corbusier
from 1915 to 1917
2 moments here
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Leon Trotsky
in 1914
1 moment here
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Marcel Proust
in 1917
1 moment here
French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known for À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).…
Marie Curie
in 1916
1 moment here
Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Octave Mirbeau
in 1917
1 moment here
French novelist, playwright, journalist, pamphleteer, and art critic. Mirbeau’s documented life moved between Normandy, Paris, Brittany, the French…
Pablo Picasso
from 1916 to 1918
2 moments here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Porfirio Díaz
in 1915
1 moment here
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican general and politician who led Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 until his overthrow in 1911.…
Rubén Darío
in 1914
1 moment here
Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a central initiator of Spanish-language Modernismo.…
Sarah Bernhardt
in 1915
1 moment here
French stage and early film actress, born Henriette-Rosine Bernard in Paris. Bernhardt became an international theatrical star through performances…
Woodrow Wilson
in 1918
2 moments here
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American academic, governor of New Jersey, and the 28th president of the United States.…
Moments
- 1914 European arrival and stay in Paris Jorge Luis Borges
- 1914 Paris match with Aurbach José Raúl Capablanca
- 1914 Move to Paris with Murry Katherine Mansfield
- 1914 Legal dispute in Paris Rubén Darío
- 1914 Move to Paris Leon Trotsky
- 1915 Paris research stay Le Corbusier
- 1915 Visit to Francis Carco Katherine Mansfield
- 1915 Death in Paris Porfirio Díaz
- 1915 Return to Paris after amputation Sarah Bernhardt
- 1915 Birth at Hôpital Tenon Édith Piaf
- 1916 Trains radiology assistants in Paris Marie Curie
- 1916 Moves to Montrouge studio Pablo Picasso
- 1917 Permanent move to Paris Le Corbusier
- 1917 Death at rue Beaujon Octave Mirbeau
- 1917 Attendance at the première of Parade Marcel Proust
- 1918 Paris during German bombardment Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Arrival in Paris during World War I Ernest Hemingway
- 1918 Marries Olga in Paris Pablo Picasso
- 1918 Paris stopover Woodrow Wilson
- 1918 Preliminary peace-conference travel Woodrow Wilson