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From 1904 to 1914 Ramuz lived in Paris, where he devoted himself exclusively to writing. In the French capital, he led a simple bachelor’s life in

relatively spartan apartments. He met and forged close friendships with Swiss writers and artists, the sons and daughters of good families who, like himself, had settled in Paris (there were many of them), in the Montparnasse district, to which he remained faithful, despite several changes of accommodation. The writer did not join other literary or social circles, and went out relatively little. He wrote and tried to live by his pen. Eleven major works were written during these years, nine of which were published, from Aline to Vie de Samuel Belet.