The Fitzgeralds' first contact with France was unabashedly a tourist jaunt. On 3 April 1920, having just published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre at the rectory of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. For the next year, flushed with the success of that novel, the Fitzgeralds threw themselves upon New York, establishing a pattern of life with which they would become identified, and by which they would be haunted, during the rest of the decade. Despite their hectic social life, Fitzgerald dedicated himself to the composition of a second novel. Early in the spring of 1921 Zelda Fitzgerald found she was pregnant, and they decided to make a tour of Europe before the baby's birth. Fitzgerald completed the serial version of The Beautiful and Damned (1922) in late spring, and on 3 May 1921 they boarded the Aquitania for their voyage to England, France, and Italy.
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