"To take the world as one finds it, the bad with the good, making the best of the present moment—to laugh at Fortune alike whether she be generous or unkind—to spend freely when one has money, and to hope gaily when one has none—to fleet the time carelessly, living for love and art—this is the temper and spirit of the modern Bohemian in his outward and visible aspect. It is a light and graceful philosophy, but it is the Gospel of the Moment, this exoteric phase of the Bohemian religion; and if, in some noble natures, it rises to a bold simplicity and naturalness, it may also lend its butterfly precepts to some very pretty vices and lovable faults, for in Bohemia one may find almost every sin save that of Hypocrisy. ..."
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Lovely sketch by the talented http://www.furaffinity.net/user/triple-shot of myself as one of the turn of the century Bohemians in Montmartre, smoking and sipping some absinthe while I write some art-for-art's-sake masterpiece.

Original submission here https://www.weasyl.com/submission/1.....-colinleighton has some interesting details regarding the excellent research triple-shot did for the sketch.