The Other Americans in Paris : Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941 / Nancy L. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Nancy L., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Americans.

Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.

France--Civilization--American influences.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers' representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who had settled in France after World War I with their French wives, they provide a new view of the notion of expatriates. Nancy L. Green thus introduces us for the first time to a long-forgotten part of the American overseas population-predecessors to today's expats-while exploring the politics of citizenship and the business relationships, love lives, and wealth (and poverty for some) of Americans who staked their claim to the City of Light. The Other Americans in Paris shows that elite migration is a part of migration tout court and that debates over "Americanization" have deep roots in the twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. The Not So Lost Generation: The "American Colony"

2. Uses of Citizenship: Tales from the Consulate, or How Mrs. Baker Got Her Hat Back

3. For Love or Money: Marriage and Divorce in the French Capital

4. Americans at Work: Of Grocers, Fashion Writers, Dentists, and Lawyers

5. Doing Business in France: The Formal and the Informal

6. Down and Out in Paris: The Tailed, the Arrested, and the Poor

7. French Connections, Reciprocal Visions: Love, Hate, Awe, Disdain

8. Heading Home: War, Again

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226137520

022613752X

OCLC:

884296875