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THE BOHEMIANS

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by Robert Baldick
Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford The Bohème of the 1840s in literary Paris was a kind of early beatnik phenomenon. It helped to create a persistent image of the literary man as a gay, irresponsible, and slightly disreputable figure on the fringes of bourgeois society. How was this legend born?
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