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When did Gertrude Stein move to Paris?
Who were some of the people who attended Gertrude Stein's Paris salon?
What is one possible reason why Gertrude Stein may have been able to sustain her lifestyle during World War II?
Study Notes
- Gertrude Stein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1874.
- She moved to Paris in 1903 and made France her home for the rest of her life.
- Stein hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.
- Stein's activities during World War II have been the subject of analysis and commentary. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein may have only been able to sustain her lifestyle as an art collector, and indeed to ensure her physical safety, through the protection of the powerful Vichy government official and Nazi collaborator Bernard Faÿ. After the war ended, Stein expressed admiration for another Nazi collaborator, Vichy leader Marshal Pétain.
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Test your knowledge of Gertrude Stein's life, literary contributions, and legacy with this quiz. Learn about her influential Paris salon, her activities during World War II, and her connections with prominent modernist figures.
