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AfroFrench people elected in metropolitan France. Severiano de Heredia, president of the municipal council of Paris (1879–1880/ sort of mayor of Paris ), deputy for Paris (1881–1889), minister (1887); Blaise Diagne (18721934), first black African elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, and the first to hold a position in the French government. ...It was then that jazz was introduced to the French, and black culture was born in Paris. African American musicians, artists and Harlem Renaissance writers found 1920s Paris ready to embrace them with open arms. Montmartre became the center of the small community, with jazz clubs such as Le Grand Duc, Chez Florence and Bricktops thriving in Paris.
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