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"Paris is a party" American literary afternoon tea at the Select.<p> A café that has retained its original "art deco" decor, opened in 1924 to attract American customers who came to Paris to escape the rigors of Prohibition. A meeting place for writers of the "Lost Generation".<br><br> The Montparnasse of the 1920s evoked by Hemingway, a pillar of the Select, in The Sun Also Rises and in A Moveable Feast (which in recent weeks has become a bestseller symbolizing the happiness of living in a Paris that has disappeared).<br><br> The joyous atmosphere of the "Roaring Twenties" in which the novels of the "Lost Generation" were written, an expression coined by Gertrude Stein, based on dereliction and disappointment in the face of any political or patriotic ideal.<br> The meeting between Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald at the "Dingo". Hemingway, a friend of Dos Passos and an adversary of Faulkner.<br><br> "Black Thursday" and the abrupt departure of Americans ruined by the fall of the Dollar.<br> In 1936, Hemingway met Robert Desnos at the Select, who advised him to go to Spain, the setting for *For Whom the Bell Tolls*, a novel that initiated the repoliticization of American literature.<br><br> <strong>Please note:</strong><br> The exact address will be mentioned on the receipt.<br><br> Please bring a drink of your choice.</p>