70a stage door

FIRST EDITION. One of 200 numbered copies on Conqueror Connoisseur paper, the only large-paper edition. 70 bis entrée des artistes is an investigative account dedicated to a forgotten address in Montparnasse, back when the neighborhood was a hub for artists and a village. Drawing on rediscovered archives, photographs, and classified ads, Patrick Modiano and Christian Mazzalai bring to life the studios at 70 bis rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, from the time of painter Toulmouche and the Boîte à thé. From the Second Empire to the post-war period, these studios saw a procession of painters, writers, poets, men and women, famous or unknown, who came from America, Japan, or elsewhere, to try their luck in Paris.