Which Era Would have You Most Liked to Have Lived in?

This question was posed to me by a friend who is a journalist, after re-watching for the 10th time( with great delight) Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris", the other evening.
As an unabashed Francophile, my answer was quick and decisive..'Paris in the 1920's', I responded.   

Ah! this was the time to be in  the city of lights...legendary cafes, haunts of the likes of Hemingway, Picasso and Henry Miller. The place, Montparnasse home to four the most famous cafes in all of Paris - Le Dome, La Coupole, Closerie des Lilas and le Select. Today all are still there, not much has changed since 1925, well maybe apart from the prices. Its still worth grabbing a table outside on the terrace and yes, there will be plenty of tourists, but you'll also be rewarded with a delightfully cliched, but authentic, slice of Left Bank Life, with students earnestly discussing philosophy, businessmen holding an impromptu meeting or elegant fashionistas taking a break from shopping and of course myself, sitting outside at le Select,having a cafe creme in the early morning and watching the city wake up and then later walking a few doors down to La Coupole and having 2 dozen oysters with a bottle of flinty Sancerre.