A group of composers in Paris - Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre - become known as 'les Six'

League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon

A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire

The body of an unknown French soldier is laid to rest in a chapel within the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and a few weeks later is buried at ground level beneath the arch

The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret

James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere

French fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel introduces a very successful perfume, calling it Chanel No. 5

The League of Nations gives France and Britain mandates to govern separate areas of the German colony of Cameroon

France and Britain are given a League of Nations mandate to govern separate areas of the German colony of Togoland

Valéry's collection Charmes includes probably his best-known poem, 'Le Cimetière marin'

France, with Belgian support, occupies Germany's industrial heartland in the Ruhr

Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvâti is premiered in Paris

The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France

Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture

Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231, inspired by the sounds of a steam train, has its first performance in Paris

Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller wins three Olympic gold medals in the Paris games, together with a bronze in water polo

Le Train Bleu brings together Bronislava Nijinska (choreography), Darius Milhaud (music), and Coco Chanel (costumes)

André Breton launches a new movement with his Manifesto of surrealism - Soluble fish

Maurice Ravel and Colette provide music and libretto for the opera The Child and the Enchantments

A fashionable new style, Art Deco, derives its name from a Paris exhibition called the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Industriels et Modernes

Treaties signed at Locarno, in Switzerland, aim to stabilize and guarantee Germany's borders with France and Belgium

African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris

The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara

French author André Gide publishes his only novel, The Counterfeiters

French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux