• Fig. 14. Le Train Bleu restaurant in the Gare de Lyon train station, Paris. Select patrons can dine in rooms named after former French colonies, including one called Salon Algerien. Habib Benglia named his Montparnasse club Le Train Bleu after this posh restaurant as well as after the opera-ballet of the same title. Photo by Katie N. Johnson.
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  • The Blue Train

Le Train Bleu restaurant in the Gare de Lyon train station, Paris

From Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway by Katie N. Johnson

  • Le Train Bleu restaurant in the Gare de Lyon train station, Paris. Select patrons can dine in rooms named after former French colonies, including one called “Salon Algerien.” Habib Benglia named his Montparnasse club Le Train Bleu after this posh restaurant as well as after the opera-ballet of the same title.
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  • African American Studies
  • Theater and Performance
  • American Studies
  • Literary Studies:American Literature
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  • 1930s
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