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  Photography Credits

  Prologue, “The Hôtel Ritz”: German troops and French civilians, 1940 (Getty Images, 141555216, Mondadori).

  1. “This Switzerland in Paris”: A Frenchman weeps, watching Nazi troops occupy Paris, June 14, 1940 (Office of War Information, National Archives, Washington, DC, ARC 535896).

  2. “All the Talk of Paris”: Courtroom trial, the Dreyfus Affair, 1896–99 (Getty Images, 107412386, RM/Gamma/Keystone).

  3. “Dogfight above the Place Vendôme”: Luisa, Marquise Casati (Getty Images, 141555399, Mondadori).

  4. “Diamonds as Big as the Ritz”: Laura Mae Corrigan (Cleveland State University Archives, Michael Schwartz Library).

  5. “The Americans Drifting to Paris”: Ernest Hemingway, 1944 (Getty Images, 3312466, Picture Post, Kurt Hutton/Stringer).

  6. “The French Actress and Her Nazi Lover”: Still shot, Arletty in Les visiteurs du soir (The Devil’s Envoys), 1942 (Getty Images, 2638086, Hulton Archive/Stringer).

  7. “The Jewish Bartender and the German Resistance”: The Hôtel Ritz Bar, Paris, just before the occupation (Getty Images, 145253043, Roger Viollet).

  8. “The American Wife and the Swiss Director”: Blanche Auzello (photograph from the first decade of the twentieth century).

  9. “The German General and the Fate of Paris”: General Leclerc’s arrival in Paris during the liberation, August 1944 (Getty Images, 152232439, Universal Images Group).

  10. “The Press Corps and the Race to Paris”: Robert Capa, Olin L. Tompkins, and Ernest Hemingway at Mont Bocard, France, July 30, 1944 (Getty Images, 50691570, Time/Life Images).

  11. “Ernest Hemingway and the Ritz Liberated”: Crowds celebrate in Paris, Arc de Triomphe, 1944 (Getty Images, 50654762, Time/Life Images).

  12. “Those Dame Reporters”: Sniper fire at the Hôtel de Ville, crowds fall to the ground during the liberation of Paris (Getty Images, 104420310, Gamma/Keystone, August 1, 1944).

  13. “The Last Trains from Paris”: Studio with paintings by Pablo Picasso (Getty Images, 50516574, Time/Life Pictures, Nat Farbman, October 31, 1948).

  14. “Coco’s War and Other Dirty Linen”: Coco Chanel (Getty Images, 56226843, Roger Viollet Collection, January 1, 1937).

  15. “The Blonde Bombshell and the Nuclear Scientists”: Assimilated Colonel Fred Wardenburg, 1944 (Courtesy Sylvia Crouter).

  16. “From Berlin with Love and Last Battles in Paris”: Marlene Dietrich at the Hôtel Ritz after the liberation (Getty Images, 50409886, Time/Life Pictures, Ralph Morse, October 1, 1944).

  17. “Waning Powers in Paris”: Party for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in the 1950s, with the Woolworths (Getty Images, 3088537, Premium Archive, Slim Aarons/Stringer).

  18. “The War’s Long Shadow”: Claude Auzello, in his office at the Hôtel Ritz (Getty Images, 106501020, Gamma/Keystone).

  Afterword: Charley Ritz, on the balcony of the Hôtel Ritz (Getty Images, 121508742, Robert Doisneau, Gamma-Rapho).

  Index

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  Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

  Abetz, Otto, 81–83, 100, 118, 166

  Abwehr (German intelligence), xvi, 2, 55–56, 94, 117, 187–89

  Abetz, Suzanne, 81

  À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 38, 46, 48

  Algeria, 228

  Allied airmen, 79, 91, 104–5, 154, 159–60

  Allied intelligence, 186–87

  nuclear weapons and, 196, 198, 201–4

  Allies, 201

  casualties of, 121

  Charles de Gaulle vs. Anglo-American, 83, 121, 144, 178, 206, 212, 214–15, 226, 228–30, 237


  liberation of Paris and, xvi, 118–22, 133–35, 146

  Normandy invasion and advance of, 70–74, 77, 80–81, 104

  in Paris, post-liberation, 176, 212

  Alsos mission, 196, 198, 201–4

  Amen, John H., 212

  anti-Semitism, 27, 29–30, 42, 83, 179, 188. See also Dreyfus Affair; Jews

  Apollinaire, Guillaume, 41

  Ardennes forest, 8

  Arletty (Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat,), xv, xix, xx, xxii, 12, 19, 75, 165, 170, 233

  advance of Allies and, 81, 85–86

  affair with Hans-Jürgen Soehring and, 77–78, 80–81, 85–86

  arrested for collaboration, 179, 181–83, 186, 196

  background of, 76–79

  Georges Mandel and, 84

  Pierre Laval and, 84–85

  Arman de Caillavet, Madame, 28–29, 38

  Artistry of Mixing Drinks, The (Meier), 87, 95

  art. See also specific artists

  Breker exhibition and Nazi, xvi, 167–71

  “degenerate,” 106, 169, 171, 173

  German looting of, 105–8, 113–14, 165–69, 171–73

  Aurore, L’ (newspaper), 29, 38

  Auschwitz, 166–67

  Austro-Hungarian Empire, 15

  Auzello, Blanche Rubenstein (Ross), xiii, 10, 55, 103

  air raids and, 109–10, 112, 114

  Coco Chanel and, 186–87

  Ernest Hemingway and, 70

  film industry and, 78

  Gestapo arrest and torture of, 88–95, 102, 109–13, 233

  Jewish background of, 89–92

  murder-suicide and, 234

  Auzello, Blanche Rubenstein (Ross) (cont.)

  postwar problems of, 231–33

  resistance and, 92–95, 109–10

  Hans Günther von Dincklage and, 187

  Auzello, Claude, xiii–xiv, 10, 20, 55, 70, 93, 210, 227

  Blanche’s arrest and, 108–9, 113

  Ernest Hemingway and, 140–43

  liberation and, 140

  loses Ritz position, 229–33

  May 1968 and, 229–30

  murder-suicide and, 233–34

  resistance and, 93, 95, 102

  avant-garde, 41–46, 168

  “Babylon Revisited” (Fitzgerald), 49

 

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