ABSTRACT
Every year tens and hundreds of thousands of prosperous Americans took ship for Europe. In 1928, 437,000 people sailed for the Old World—a great many of them young. 1 They went to live for a time the life of the expatriate, as glamorized for them by Fitzgerald and Hemingway. They went to Paris, to see what flaming youth was really like in the land of its birth. For when all was said and done, the Europeans were the old professionals at this business of being young and insurrectionary.
