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Paris after the Liberation, 1944-1949 / Anthony Beevor and Artemis Cooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beevor, Antony, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paris (France)--History--1944-.
- Paris (France).
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Paris (France)--Politics and government--1945-.
- Liberty.
- World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- From two renowned British historians comes a vivid and anecdotal history of the dazzling social, cultural, and political renaissance that occurred in the City of Lights after World War II. A fitting celebration for the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Paris.
- Contents:
- Part 1 A Tale of Two Countries
- 1 The Marshal and the General 3
- 2 The Paths of Collaboration and Resistance 10
- 3 The Resistance of the Interior and the Men of London 19
- 4 The Race for Paris 31
- 5 Liberated Paris 52
- 6 The Passage of Exiles 63
- 7 War Tourists and Ritzkrieg 69
- 8 The Epuration Sauvage 77
- Part 2 L'etat, C'est de Gaulle
- 9 Provisional Government 93
- 10 Corps Diplomatique 107
- 11 Liberators and Liberated 123
- 12 Writers and Artists in the Line of Fire 131
- 13 The Return of Exiles 145
- 14 The Great Trials 155
- 15 Hunger for the New 170
- 16 After the Deluge 186
- 17 Communists in Government 195
- 18 The Abdication of Charles XI 203
- Part 3 Into the Cold War
- 19 The Shadow-Theatre: Plots and Counter-Plots 221
- 20 Politics and Letters 230
- 21 The Diplomatic Battleground 239
- 22 The Fashionable World 250
- 23 A Tale of Two Cities 260
- 24 Fighting Back against the Communists 272
- 25 The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 285
- 26 The Republic at Bay 297
- 27 The Great Boom of Saint-Germain-des-Pres 310
- 28 The Curious Triangle 321
- 29 The Treason of the Intellectuals 331
- Part 4 The New Normality
- 30 Americans in Paris 349
- 31 The Tourist Invasion 361
- 32 Paris sera toujours Paris 369
- 33 Recurring Fevers 374.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-426) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0142437921
- OCLC:
- 54543258
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