<P> In his song La Bohème, Charles Aznavour described the Bohemian lifestyle in Montmartre . The film Moulin Rouge! (2001) also reflects the Bohemian lifestyle in Montmartre at the turn of the 20th century . </P> <P> In the 1850s, aesthetic bohemians began to arrive in the United States . In New York City in 1857, a group of some 15--20 young, cultured journalists flourished as self - described "bohemians" until the American Civil War began in 1861 . This group gathered at a German bar on Broadway called Pfaff's beer cellar . Members included their leader Henry Clapp, Jr., Walt Whitman, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, and actress Adah Isaacs Menken . </P> <P> Similar groups in other cities were broken up as well by the Civil War and reporters spread out to report on the conflict . During the war, correspondents began to assume the title "bohemian", and newspapermen in general took up the moniker . Bohemian became synonymous with newspaper writer . In 1866, war correspondent Junius Henri Browne, who wrote for the New York Tribune and Harper's Magazine, described "Bohemian" journalists such as he was, as well as the few carefree women and lighthearted men he encountered during the war years . </P> <P> San Francisco journalist Bret Harte first wrote as "The Bohemian" in The Golden Era in 1861, with this persona taking part in many satirical doings, the lot published in his book Bohemian Papers in 1867 . Harte wrote, "Bohemia has never been located geographically, but any clear day when the sun is going down, if you mount Telegraph Hill, you shall see its pleasant valleys and cloud - capped hills glittering in the West ..." </P>

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