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From 1904 to 1914, Ramuz lived in Paris and devoted himself exclusively to writing. In the French capital, he leads a simple bachelor’s life in apartments with few comforts. He met and forged deep friendships with Swiss writers and artists, sons and daughters of good families who had settled in Paris like him (and there were many of them), in the Montparnasse district, to which he remained faithful, as he moved from place to place. The writer did not join other literary or social circles, and went out relatively little. He writes and seeks to make a living from his pen. Eleven major texts were born during these years, nine of which were published, fromAline to Vie de Samuel Belet.