history
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cuckoo for kiki
Alice Prin was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte d’Or. An illegitimate child, she experienced great hardship while growing up. Her beauty, though, led her to become a life model for artists. She adopted the name Kiki and became known as Kiki de Montparnasse. Kiki was multi-talented, gifted at painting, and she eventually wrote her own memoirs…
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tinker, tailor, soldier, satirist: sacha zaliouk’s contributions to trench journalism
‘Journaux de tranchées‘, or trench journalism, is exactly that: publications by soldiers locked in the horrors of war. This form of transmitting the misery, violence and loss of a war by those closest to it, was not unique to France, as Britain and Germany had their own publications (source), though France had quite a few…
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the devil went down to montparnasse
Sacha frequently contributed to the magazine Le Sourire, which was founded by Paul Gauguin and later taken over by Maurice Méry. Under Méry, the magazine adapted a more humorist and sexual style through its articles and sketches. Sacha contributed two such sketches including the devil that I could find, one published 26th April 1928 (source)…
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moussa koné beyla
As noted in his biography, Sacha joined the French army during the First World War. For the first part of his service, he was based “internally”. There was a publication called ‘Bulletin des écrivains’ which had a section at the back. It contained columns listing the location of writers. Sacha was included in these columns…
A Study of Sacha Zaliouk 