ABSTRACT
It was last seen in Dean Street, just north of Old Compton Street, in a club called the Caves de France, and wonderful evenings we had there. True, not every customer was a painter or a poet but the crowd was thickly sprinkled with them. Dylan Thomas drank and cavorted there. So did Brendan Behan. Today it's a strip club. Of course London still has establishments catering for everyone from lords to layabouts but it's doubtful if any of them could really be described as Bohemian. That special atmosphere compounded of guilty superiority to the earthbound and genuine enthusiasm for the arts can be breathed no more in the capital.
