The French Gazette

Dispatches of the Prohibition Era

History is never confined to a single story. While the United States waged its war against alcohol, the rest of the world was entering one of the most dynamic and transformative decades of the twentieth century.

The Roaring Twenties reshaped societies on both sides of the Atlantic. Cities expanded, jazz conquered dance halls, cinema captivated millions, aviation redefined distance and new ideas spread faster than ever before. Paris became the capital of artistic freedom, New York reached for the sky, and Europe struggled to rebuild while new political and economic forces quietly emerged.

The French Gazette is your newspaper from the Roaring Twenties.

Published as if each edition had just come off the printing press, it brings back the headlines, remarkable events, cultural revolutions and forgotten stories that unfolded alongside Prohibition. From Parisian cafés to Harlem jazz clubs, from transatlantic liners to Mediterranean ports, each issue captures the atmosphere of an era in constant motion.

Politics, society, fashion, cinema, technology, travel, sport, science and everyday life all find their place in these pages. Some stories made international headlines. Others were almost forgotten. Together, they reveal the world in which Prohibition unfolded.

More than a historical archive, The French Gazette invites you to experience the 1920s as contemporaries might have lived them: one edition, one story and one extraordinary decade at a time.