Eve Adams, a peripatetic bookseller in Montparnasse who had been deported from America, helped Henry Miller promote Tropic of Cancer to a general audience on the terrasses of popular expatriate cafes.
Le Select opened its doors in 1925 and was the first Montparnasse café to remain open all night. The air of sexual freedom permeating Montparnasse between the world wars was nowhere more evident than at the Select...
