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| 1933 |
| | | Hungarian photographer Brassaï publishes his photographs of the seedier side of Paris night life in Paris de Nuit | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachy, a masterpiece of etching, prefigures some of the themes of Guernica | |
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| 1936 |
| | | The Spanish Civil War causes the Basque designer Cristobal Balenciaga to move his business to Paris, capital of the fashion world | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Pablo Picasso's massive painting Guernica is exhibited in the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair in Paris | |
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| c. 1941 |
| | | Henri Matisse, recovering from an operation, develops his technique of gouaches découpées (cut-out patches of painted paper) | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Pablo Picasso transforms a bicycle's handlebars and saddle into Head of a Bull | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Capa, Cartier-Bresson and others found Magnum, a cooperative of leading photographers running their own picture agency | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Spanish-born Paris designer Cristóbal Balenciaga produces an ostensibly shapeless garment, the 'sack', that greatly excites the world of fashion | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Christian Dior dies and is followed by Yves St Laurent as head designer at the famous fashion house | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Asterix, written by René Goscinny and drawn by Albert Uderzo, makes his first appearance, in the French magazine Pilote | |
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