Latin Quarter and its writers
- George Orwell : Down and Out in Paris and London
- Ernest Hemingway : A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, The Snows of Kilimanjaro,
The Green Hills of Africa, A Farewell to Arms
- James Joyce : Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake
- Honoré de Balzac : Old Goriot (Père Goriot)
- Gertrude Stein : An Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Paris France
- Alice Toklas : Cook Book
- Eliot Paul : A Narrow Street (about rue de la Huchette in the 1920s)
- Katherine Mansfield : Je ne Parle pas Français (Short story in English)
- Jean Rhys : Quartet, Good Morning Midnight, After Leaving Mr McKenzie,
about Paris in the 1920s : The Wide Sargasso Sea
(Story of Mr Rochester's wife in "Jane Eyre")
- W. Somerset Maugham : The Moon and Sixpence (loosely based on the story of Gauguin),
The Razor's Edge
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the Night
- Henry Miller : Tropic of Cancer (Banned for its sexual frankness!)
- André Gide : The Vatican Cellars
- Simone de Beauvoir : She Came to Stay (L'Invitée)
- Film : Camille Claudel (She was a talented sculptor and Rodin's mistress,
her works can be seen at the Rodin Museum)