Der Salon Nardal, Re-enactments und Re-enchantments

In the 1920s and 1930s, Paulette Nardal and her sister Jeanne "Jane" created one of the most influential gathering places of the interwar period for Black intellectuals in their apartment in Clamart. The Salon Nardal was a breeding ground for ideas, debates and cultural exchange, and laid the foundation for the emergence of the Négritude movement. Through the gatherings in their salon and with the publication of the journal La Revue du Monde Noir (1931–32), the Nardal sisters helped establish Paris as an intellectual center of the Black world. Among the guests were writers, poets, educators, artists, and social and political activists such as Suzanne Césaire, Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, Suzanne Lacascade, René Maran, Léo Sajous, Léopold Senghor, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Félix Éboué, Augusta Savage and many others.