1928. An entertaining peep into a few Paris cafes, studios and salons and gossip about some of the famous writers, artists and diplomatists with whom the author has rubbed shoulders. Contents: A Cocktail Epoch; Parisian Nights Entertainments; Two Boulevardiers; Wit and Humor; Should the Intellectual Enter Politics?; Expatriates and Visitors; Lectures and Debates; A Studio in the Sky; A Quarter that Tries; Anatole France and His Boswells; Some Famous Paris Salons; Elegance and Letters; The Tragedy of a Dancer; The House of the Friends of Books; Shakespeare and Company; Cafes and Bars; Boulevards, La Butte, Latin Quarter; A Cosmopolitan Bunch; Dancers and Queens; Morbidity, Perversity, Snobbery; The Cult of Moi; There Were Giants in Those Days; Overseas Painters and Writers; In the Shadow of Odeon; The Two Academies; and Some Notable French Women.