{"id":2222,"date":"2013-05-17T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2013-05-17T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:34:05","slug":"les-apres-midi-de-montmartre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2013\/05\/17\/les-apres-midi-de-montmartre\/","title":{"rendered":"Les apr\u00e8s-midi de Montmartre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s volume from the Santo Domingo Collection concerns Montmartre, the famous Parisian district of artists\u2019 communes and nightclubs. In Les apr\u00e8s-midi de Montmartre, <\/em>published in 1919, author Ren\u00e9 Baudu documents the drinking, drug use, and prostitution that attended Montmartre’s heyday as the center of artistic life in Paris. Les apr\u00e8s-midi de Montmartre<\/em> describes, in fiction, the \u201clost girls\u201d that inhabited the neighborhood, and the vagaries to which they were subject:<\/p>\n

Montmartre girls need love, champagne, shots and a little mystery. What they mistake for love is a childish sentimentality found in music-hall songs and mass-market novels. (p. [17])<\/p>\n

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The text is accompanied by fourteen engravings by \u00c9douard Chimot, depicting the young women of Montmartre. This copy is unusual in that the publisher, L\u2019\u00c9dition, has been replaced on the wrappers and title page with \u201cPour le compte des auteurs\u201d\u00a0 (\u201con behalf of the authors\u201d); it also features an envelope bound in at the end with additional copies of the engravings in various colors and states, as well as two original pencil sketches. This special treatment is understandable in light of the volume\u2019s provenance: it was specially printed for \u00a0the author\u2019s mother, Marie Baudu, and inscribed to her by her son.<\/p>\n

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Ren\u00e9 Baudu. Les apr\u00e8s-midi de Montmartre.\u00a0<\/em>Paris: Pour le compte des auteurs, 1919. FC9.B3260.919a2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to rare book ca<\/em>taloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Today\u2019s volume from the Santo Domingo Collection concerns Montmartre, the famous Parisian district of artists\u2019 communes and nightclubs. In Les apr\u00e8s-midi de Montmartre, published in 1919, author Ren\u00e9 Baudu documents the drinking, drug use, and prostitution that attended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-zQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}