The Quay of the fogs

the Quay of the fogs is a novel of Pierre Mac Orlan, published in 1927 with the editions Gallimard.

Marcel Carné drew from it a film, heading Quai of the fogs , left in rooms in 1935.

Summary

Anchoring reference frame

Montmartre

The nimble Rabbit

The cabaret of the Nimble Lapin, where is located the major part of the action of the Quai of the fogs , is a real cabaret of the Butte Montmartre, whose Frederic Gerard, known as “Frédé” was indeed the owner in the years 1910. Pierre Mac Orlan one was accustomed by it, at that time where he “lived literary works more décourageantes, composed of the songs which he sold, Saint-Anthony suburb, at the price of the lyric writers and drew in very vague newspapers. ”

Attended with the Nimble Lapin a mixed population, where the “ordinary customers” were neighborly with “little girls and prowlers who cherished poetry” and with artists on standby of recognition (of which Francis Carco, Pablo Picasso, Gaston Couté, max Jacob, and much of others.) “Frédé” had tried, at the moment when it had taken again this cabaret, in 1904, cleaned the customers of her most equivocal elements, which contributed to create a sometimes tended environment, and “it even arrived, certain nights, which drawn blows of revolver through the squares”, by some of “these Sirs whose Frédé did not like the presence at his place. ”

The shooting of which it is question in the novel however would have had as a framework, according to André Salmon, not the Nimble Lapin , but another cabaret whose Frederic Gerard had been the owner: the Zut .

Biographical reminiscences

The fantastic social one

The film adaptation

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