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Summer 1924
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 The Fitzgeralds meet up with the American expatriates Gerald
and Sara Murphy
who, living in luxury on inherited money, were building their Villa America.
 Zelda falls in love with St Raphael and settles for Villa Marie
, Valescure. The Murphy's become their closest friends in France.
The publication of Absolution in The American Mercury.
 While Scott toiled away at
The Great Gatsby
 , Zelda played tennis, swam, sunbathed and generally lazed about which subsequently led to a romantic involvement with French aviator Edouard Jozan. Scott told Zelda he would leave her if she continued to see Jozan and the relationship came to an end. It was never established whether Zelda's relationship with Jozan was consummated. Probabilities tend to lean towards it being not. However, sometime later Scott marked down the September of 1924 in his notebooks as a time when "I knew something had happened that could never be repaired."
The publication of The Sensible Thing in the weekly magazine Liberty.
 The Lardners pay the Fitzgeralds a visit at St. Raphael. Ring Lardner later wrote a humorous article in the weekly magazine Liberty on the visit describing Mr. Fitzgerald as a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald as a novelty.
Scott completes and revises first draft of The Great Gatsby. On October 27 Scott sends the manuscript to Maxwell Perkins suggesting an alternative title of Gold-hatted Gatsby.
 Zelda's short essay, Does A Moment Of Revolt Come Sometime To Every Married Man? appears in the magazine McCall's.
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