Paris: "A City of Ideas"
Paris is a city built on ideas. These ideas coalesce into narratives, myths and stories that form a neural network of urban life. "A City of Ideas" explores these Ideas toward an understanding of how Paris developed as a modern city. This podcast series was created and narrated by Roger Mummert (rogermum@aol.com). For more information; www.theparisproject.net
Paris: "A City of Ideas"
Walking a Lobster: Birth of La Bohème
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Roger Mummert
bohemianism
Living a life of l’art pour l’art, flaunting conventions, embracing poverty and rejecting bourgeois values and comforts.
Part 1
Walking a Lobster: Birth of la Bohème
In the 1830s, the poet Gerard de Nerval attached a blue silk leash to his pet lobster Thibault and walked him through the gardens of the Palais Royal. It is difficult today to appreciate the significance of this gesture. At the time, de Nerval, a poet’s poet among the young Parisian literati, was (with the participation of Thibault the lobster) making a shocking artistic and social statement.
De Nerval was a bohemian.
This podcast was created by Roger Mummert for www.theparisproject.net.
