Salle Huyghens
From 1916 to 1920, the salle Huyghens located at 6 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, was the name given to the studio of painter Émile Lejeune , which the latter put at the disposal of his musicians, poets and painters friends to make a theater and exhibition hall.
The venue was occupied by the musicians of Les Six. It also gave young painters the opportunity to exhibit their first works: Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani. The evenings also included declamations of fashionable poets, such as Jean Cocteau or Blaise Cendrars.
The performances, called "Lyre et palettes" after the name of a collective named "Société Lyre et palettes" created in 1916, were financed by Blaise Cendrars, Pierre Bertin, and Félix Delgrange. They welcomed a multicolored public, very chic and very bohemian, like the Montparnasse district at its peak.
