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| 1947 |
| | | Francis Poulenc makes an opera of Guillaume Apollinaire's play Les Mamelles de Tirésias ('The Breasts of Tiresias') | |
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| 1947 |
| | | French designer Christian Dior introduces the 'New Look', a lavish feminine style of dress welcomed by all after wartime austerity | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife Madeleine Renaud establish their own company at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier introduces the Modulor, an architectural unit based on the Golden Section | |
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| 1948 |
| | | French composer Pierre Schaeffer writes the first pieces of musique concrète, and coins the term | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Olivier Messiaen completes Turangaîlila-symphonie, a symphony in ten movements for an orchestra including ondes martenot | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Roland Petit's ballet Carmen, starring himself and his wife Zizi Jeanmaire, is a sensation at its London premiere | |
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| 1949 |
| | | French ex-convict Jean Genet begins his literary career with an autobiographical Thief's Journal | |
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| 1949 |
| | | French author Simone de Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex, a widely influential feminist polemic | |
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| 1949 |
| | | French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss publishes Elementary Structures of Kinship | |
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