![]() It’s tempting to imagine tourists in the first half of the Belle Epoque waiting on boulevards to see one pass by with cane, monocle, and superior expression. ![]() Identified by Baudelaire in his essay “The Painter of Modern Life” (1863), he has become as essential to our picture of that period as the demimondaine, the fashionable café dansant, the top hat, and the glass of absinthe. ![]() A psychogeographer perhaps, avant la lettre. The flaneur was a familiar figure in nineteenth-century Paris: a solitary, quasi-artistic man (though not always) who strolled the streets like an urban epicure. Private Collection/Fondation Félix Vallotton, Lausanneįélix Vallotton: La Loge de théâtre, le monsieur et la dame, 1909 ![]()
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