"it was a very peculiar moment, when you think that Picasso, Stravinsky,
Joyce, Matisse and Braque were all working at the same time - you could practically see them together. It was as though, after the terrible upheavals of the war, they had been given a sort of silent rendezvous to come to
Paris, that this was the creative spot; and it's never been reproduced, anywhere." During the 1920s, Maria Jolas , "a poor little Kentucky girl", came to know many of the titans of cultural Paris. In
1982, not long before she died, she shared her memories with Frank
Delaney.