Def: The roaring 20s
Literally, les années folles means the crazy years, but this is the phrase the French used for that divine era in which e.e. cummings, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, John Dos Passos, the Fitzgeralds, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, Janet Flanneur… everyone… was running around Paris, having the times of their lives.
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