Musical concerts, plays, dance performances, and literary readings were held there. Scott Fitzgerald, and arts patron Peggy Guggenheim, among others. The salon was held in her home in Paris’s Latin Quarter, and hosted hundreds of famous guests over the years, including writers Colette and Gertrude Stein, and dancer/choreographer Isadora Duncan, as well as artist Auguste Rodin, poet T.S. In 1909, she took up what was to be a sixty-year residence at 20 Rue Jacob and began her “Fridays,” as she referred to her salon (a gathering of intellectuals for the exchange and discussion of ideas). She settled in Paris, and her network of friends rapidly expanded. After her father’s death in 1902, Barney received a substantial inheritance that allowed her complete financial independence for her lifetime. At an early age, she showed an interest in art and writing. She was an intelligent and rebellious child, educated by governesses and at a French boarding school. In French, “l’Amazone” means both horse rider and Amazon, the warrior women of Greek mythology.īarney was born on October 31, 1876, to a wealthy family. Barney is also known as “The Amazon,” a nickname given to her by the poet Remy de Gourmont after she made headlines for riding a horse astride, rather than sidesaddle, which was customary. She is celebrated for openly living and writing as a lesbian during a time when women’s behavior was closely circumscribed. Natalie Barney was both a poet and a prose writer, who was famous for her weekly salons, which gathered together many of the twentieth century’s greatest artists and writers from the Western world.
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