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March 2023
Talk by Brian Freeland – Bohemian Paris – Artists, Painters ..stories beyond the books …
£2
At the Church Hall. An earlier talk, LITERARY PARIS, reminded viewers of the city’s writers; this new Presentation, BOHEMIAN PARIS, covers those painters, performers and composers active at a time when, according to Henry Murger, “Bohemia only exists and is only possible in Paris”. The Irish author George Moore (above, sketched by Manet) introduces us to the ‘bohemian’ Impressionist painters; we then glimpse the ’historical’ Bohemians before moving on, inevitably perhaps, to Puccini’s opera La Boheme based on Henry Murger’s book…
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