After 1917 , and again in the 1930s , it became base to a community of `` avant garde '' artists and writers and was host to a number of émigrés and exiles from the Russian Revolution and Nazi Europe .
After 1917 , and again in the 1930s , it became base to a community of avant garde artists and writers and was host to a number of émigrés and exiles from the Russian Revolution and Nazi Europe .