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Paris in the Fifties / Stanley Karnow ; illustrations by Annette Karnow.
LIBRA - Blank Collection DC715 .K38 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karnow, Stanley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Karnow, Stanley--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.
- Karnow, Stanley.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Paris (France).
- France--Politics and government--1945-.
- France.
- Politics and government.
- National characteristics, French.
- Homes.
- Manners and customs.
- Political science.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Blank, Fritz (donor) (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 352, [2] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Division of Random House, Inc.,
- Other Title:
- Paris in the 50's
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Times Books, 1999.
- Contents:
- 1. Pourquoi Paris
- 2. En Famille
- 3. Grope Journalism
- 4. Le Monde
- 5. Names Make News
- 6. The Prince of Gastronomes
- 7. In Deepest Beaujolais
- 8. Crime and Justice
- 9. The Last Penal Colony
- 10. Monsieur de Paris
- 11. Massacre at Le Mans
- 12. The Good Samaritan
- 13. Le Strip-Tease
- 14. Ce Petit Annamite
- 15. La Jeunesse Francaise
- 16 The Mandarins
- 17. The Glass of Fashion
- 18. Le Poujadisme
- 19. Turnstile Politics
- 20. The Maghreb
- 21. Toujours Paris.
- Notes:
- "This work was originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form by Times Books...in 1997"--T.p. verso.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy inscribed "To the man with the biggest sense of history, tradition and rituals - Also to the Chef, my friend Fritz, who never lost the child-like freshness of discovery. We love you. Charley and Esther. Cook and the book March 23, 1999".
- Kislak copy on half-title page has pencil sketches and various food items.
- ISBN:
- 0812931378
- 9780812931372
- OCLC:
- 40998865
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