Café society
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Café society was the description of the "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafés and restaurants in New York, Paris and London beginning in the late 19th century. Maury Henry Biddle Paul is credited with coining the phrase "café society" in 1915. The term has also been used to describe the bohemian ensemble of artists and intellectuals in interwar Paris.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>
Members attended each other's private dinners and balls, and took holidays in exotic locations or at elegant resorts. In the United States, café society came to the fore with the end of Prohibition in December 1933, and the rise of photojournalism to describe the set of people who tended to do their entertaining semi-publicly—in restaurants and nightclubs—and who would include among them movie stars and sports celebrities.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Some of the American nightclubs and New York City restaurants frequented by the denizens of café society included the 21 Club, El Morocco, Restaurant Larue, and the Stork Club.<ref name=BronxvilleRecord1941-09-04/>
Interwar Paris
Between the first and second world wars, artists, writers and intellectuals flocked to Paris where they would visit cafes and bistros. Among the writers were Americans authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald.<ref name=":1" /> Artists of the Ecole de Paris such as Chaim Soutine, Yitzhak Frenkel, Jules Pascin and others would also frequent cafes with different groups of artists frequenting different cafes.<ref name=":252">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":0" /> Cafes from the period include Le Dôme Café,<ref>Jean Émile-Bayard, Montparnasse hier et aujourd'hui : ses artistes et écrivains, étrangers et français, les plus célèbres, Jouve, 1927, Template:P..</ref> Café de la Rotonde,<ref>Hemingway in Paris</ref><ref name="theguardianmallalieu">Template:Cite news</ref> Le Select and others.<ref name=":0" />
See also
- 1920s Berlin
- Années folles
- Golden Twenties
- Jazz Age
- Paris between the Wars (1918–1939)
- Roaring Twenties
- Jet set