Dîner au lit
From their arrival in 1922, the Crosbys led the life of rich expatriates. They were attracted to the bohemian lifestyle of the artists gathering in Montparnasse. They embraced a decadent lifestyle, had an open marriage with numerous ongoing affairs, a suicide pact, frequent drug use, dinner parties from their bed and long trips abroad. In her autobiography The Passionate Years, Caresse Crosby describes: “Harry loved bed. In the rue de Lille, he liked to write in bed, eat in bed, to entertain in bed.” That is why the couple regularly organized ‘dinnerparties in bed’. After dinner, at the stroke of …