In 1851, Henri Murger published "Scenes de la Vie de Bohème," portraying the Bohemian life of four artists in the Quartier Latin. Some say the book defined the colorful ways of Bohemianism; others say is merely "marked" or even mocked what was a serious social and political rejection of bourgeois values and comforts. The book remains widely read, and the argument endures, as well.  

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