La Tour d’Auvergne family, 33
Lehrer, James Charles “Jim,” 192
Le Monde, 91
Lend-Lease Act, 16
Le Nôtre, André, 33
Letters to Marietta (S. M. Alsop), 155–157, 159–162
Lewinsky, Monica, 190
L’Humanité, 91–92
Library Review, 161
Life magazine, 66
Ligne, Prince Antoine de, 47
Lincoln, Abraham, 125
Lindbergh, Charles A., 16
Lippman, Walter, 67, 107, 128, 180
Livingston family, connection to Jays, 2
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 67
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 148, 185
Lopez, Arturo, 81
Lutyens, Edwin, 163
Luynes, Duke de, 92
MacArthur, Douglas, 76
Macmillan, Lady Dorothy, née Cavendish, 120
Macmillan, Harold, 96, 120
Mailer, Norman, 172
Malraux, André, 41
Margerie, Emmanuel “Bobby” and Hélène de, 137–38, 146
Margerie, Gilles de, 146
Marie, Queen of Romania, 3–4
Marshall, General George C., 54–55, 173
Marshall Plan, 49, 51, 55, 91, 92
Maud’huy, Marie de, 33, 63
Mauriac, François, 41
Maurois, André, 47
McCarthy, Joseph, 76, 92, 113, 125
McCormick, Ken, 155, 156
McNamara, Robert “Bob,” 129, 134, 172
Mellon, Rachel “Bunny,” 116
Mendès France, Pierre, 93
Messel, Oliver, 82
Meyer, Mary, 122
Millau, Christian, 82
Milliken, Anne Patten, 118, 122, 169
birth of, 69
childhood of, 88, 89, 99
illness and death of father, 100, 105, 106
illness and death of mother, 192, 193
marriages of, 145, 182
in mother’s intervention, 187–89
and stepfather, 115, 135, 137
Milliken, John, 182, 188
Miracle, The (Reinhardt), 38
Mitford, Nancy, 81, 86, 90, 95
anti-Americanism of, 75–76
The Blessing, 72–73, 75–76
in Coopers’ social circle, 44
Don’t Tell Alfred, 73–74, 75
fear of Soviet invasion, 60
friendship with Susan Mary, 73, 76
on Gladwyn Jebb, 102
“Mildred Jungfleisch” modeled on Susan Mary, 69, 73–76, 107
on paternity rumors, 62
Moch, Jules, 56
Molotov, Viatcheslav, 45
Monnet, Jean, 55, 87
Moorhead, Lucy, 181
Morand, Paul, 81
Morgan, J.P., 163
MRP party (Mouvement Républicain Populaire), 28
Munich Agreement, 39
My Fair Lady, 138–39
Nabokov, Nicholas “Nicky,” 29
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 111
Newhouse, John, 172
New Republic, 134
New York Herald Tribune, 112, 128
New York Times, 128, 133, 161
New York World’s Fair, 12
Ngo Dinh Diem, 127
Nguyen Van Thieu, 147
Nicholas II, Czar, 169
Nicolson, Harold, 163, 165
Nicolson, Nigel, 164–65, 168, 173
Nitze, Paul, 29, 126
Nixon, Richard
China policy of, 148
election of, 134
and Kissinger, 166–67
Vietnam policy of, 147–48
and Watergate scandal, 152, 157
Noailles, Hélie and Nadège, 172
Noailles, Henri and Marie de, Duke and Duchess de Mouchy, 32–33
Noailles, Marie-Laure de, 32, 41, 81, 94
Noailles, Philippe de, 32, 100
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 65
Norwich, Duff Cooper. See Cooper, Duff
Norwich, John Julius Cooper, Lord, 51, 87, 88
O’Brien, Lawrence, 124
Ogden, Deedy, 192
Ogier, Mademoiselle (governess), 89
Old Men Forget (Cooper), 86
Onassis, Jacqueline. See Jacqueline Kennedy
One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 141
Operation Heartbreak (Cooper), 85
Pakenham, Sir Michael, 172
Palewski, Gaston, 28, 44, 62, 72, 73, 90, 107
Paley, Barbara Cushing “Babe,” 11–12, 61, 121
Paley, William S., 11
Paris
American community in, 21–22
black market in, 23
modernization of, 93–94
salons of, 41–42
V-E Day in, 25–26
Paris Match, 91
Pasquier, Roger, 181
Patten, Anne. See Milliken, Anne Patten
Patten, Eliza, 182, 188, 192
Patten, Kate Bacon, 145, 182
Patten, Sam, 146, 182, 186, 190–91
Patten, Susan Mary. See Alsop, Susan Mary
Patten, Sybil, 182
Patten, Sydney, 192
Patten, William, 12, 14
Patten, William Samuel “Bill,” 21, 23, 25, 32, 33, 42, 49, 53, 77, 152, 160
background and education of, 12–13
death of, 105–8
as father, 61, 63–64, 99, 104
foreign service appointment of, 17
health of, 13, 14, 17, 46, 54, 64, 78–81, 98–101, 103–5
marriage of, 12, 13–15, 46
medical care in U.S., 100–101, 104–5
Paris embassy job of, 19, 22, 24, 29, 77–78, 98
retirement of, 98
Susan Mary’s adultery concealed from, 51, 68, 69–70
at wedding anniversary celebration, 105
Patten, William Samuel, Jr. “Billy” “Bill,” 139, 140, 141, 153, 169, 170
birth of, 61
at boarding school, 99, 104, 118
childhood of, 62–63, 88–89, 99
death of father, 106
death of mother, 192–93
marriage to Kate Bacon, 145, 182
in mother’s intervention, 187–89
paternity of, 60, 61–62, 89, 188–89
and stepfather, 62, 115, 137
Peabody, Reverend Endicott, 9
Peabody, Marietta. See Tree, Marietta Peabody
Pei, I.M., 138
Pepita, Josefa de la Oliva, née Duran y Ortega, known as, 162
Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 29
Petsche, Maurice, 67
Peyrefitte, Roger, 88
Pierre, Henri Grouès, known as l’Abbé, 94
Pierrepont, Nancy, 170, 188, 190
Pleven, René, 28, 87
Polignac, Princess Marie-Blanche de, 41
Pol-Roger, Odette, 33, 49, 50, 52, 56, 82, 95
Pompidou, Claude, 180
Porcellian Club, 13
Porter Cole, 8
Portland, Duke of, 68
Portrait of a Marriage (Nicolson), 164–65
Potter, Trevor, 181
Powell, General Colin, 186
Pozza, Ginnana “Gemma,” 183, 187, 189
Preston, Patsy, 181
Prout, Curtis, 10
Puffenberger, Miss “Puff,” 117
Pyne, Nancy, 190
Queuille, Henri, 67
Quinn, Sally, 161–62, 190
Radziwill, Princess Dolly, 50, 62
Rainbow Corner, 24, 25
Ramadier, Paul, 55
Rauch, Stewart, 10
Reagan, Nancy, 172
Reinhardt, Max, 38
Rense, Paige Nolan, 179, 184, 191
Resistance, French, 27, 29, 30
Reston, James, 128
Reynaud, Paul, 26, 28, 173
Robert, Hubert, 153
Rockefeller, David, 191
Rockefeller, Nelson, 166
Rodd, Peter,
72
Rodin, Auguste, 163
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 10, 109
Roosevelt, Ethel du Pont, 20
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 10, 13, 16, 17, 20–21, 25
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 20, 68
Roosevelt, Selwa “Lucky,” 180
Roosevelt, Theodore, 3, 10, 13
Rostow, Walt W., 124, 162
Rothermere, Lord, 67
Rothschild, Alix de, 34
Rothschild, Bethsabée de, 66
Rothschild, Betty de, 171
Rothschild, Liliane de, 173
Rougemont, Anne de, 165, 185
Rougemont, Louise de, 33, 185, 190
Rubio, Gloria, 48
Rusk, Dean, 127
Rutland, 8th Duke and Duchess of, 37
Rutland, 10th Duke of, 68, 88
Sackville, Lady Victoria, 162–65
Sackville, Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron, 162–3
Sackville, Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron, 163
Sackville, Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron, 164
Sackville-West, Vita, 163, 165
Sagan, Françoise, 94
Sagan, Princess Wilhelmina de, 178
Saint-Firmin, château de, 51, 64, 86–87
Salinger, Nicole, 173
Salinger, Pierre, 129
Salisbury, Robert “Bobbety” Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of, 96, 107
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 67
Sasha Bruce Foundation, 179, 184
Schiaparelli, Elsa, 56
Schlesinger, Arthur M., 124, 133, 159
Schuman, Robert, 56
Schuman Declaration, 87
Scott, John Murray, 163
Scowcroft, Brent, 172
Senlis, Patten’s country house at, 50–51, 69
Sergeant Shakespeare (Cooper), 85
Sheep on the Runway (Buchwald), 143–44
Shriver, Sargent, 124
Six-Day War, 133
Smith, Sally Bedell, 190
Snow, Carmel, 42
Souvanna Phouma, Prince, 158
Stalin, Joseph, 52
Stevens, Elizabeth “Liz,” 181
Stevenson, Adlai, 90, 108, 109, 124, 150
Stewart, Martha, 192
Stormont, Lord, 176
Streisand, Barbra, 172
Suez Crisis, 95–97
Sulzberger, Cyrus “Cy” L., 67, 86, 97, 107, 165, 184
Sulzberger, David, 86, 173, 182
Sulzberger, Marina, 62, 86, 97, 107, 151, 165
Sulzberger, Marinette, 86
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles, Duke de, 36, 71
Talleyrand-Périgord, Dorothée de, Duchess de Dino, 71, 178
Tierney, Gene, 82
Times of London, 88, 107
Town and Country, 185
Travellers Club, 35, 180
Tree, Marietta Peabody, 138
Barbados home of, 139, 153, 165
at Blueberry Ledge, 182, 184–85
correspondence with Susan Mary, 30, 61, 66, 90–91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 114–15, 133, 145, 153
death of, 185
death of Adlai Stevenson, 150
friendship with Susan Mary, 8, 9, 11, 62, 64, 175
Letters to Marietta, 155–57, 159–160
marriage to Desmond FitzGerald, 12, 14
marriage to Ronnie Tree, 50, 54
political activism of, 77, 90, 155
social success of, 68
Tree, Nancy, 49
Tree, Ronald “Ronnie,” 49, 50, 53–54, 165
Trefusis, Violet, 163
Trudeau, Pierre, 180
Truman, Harry, 21, 54, 65
Tvede, Mogens, 50
U.S. News & World Report, 172
Valenti, Jack, 130
Vallet, Elisa, 22–23
Vance, Cyrus, 167
Van Cortland family, connection to Jays, 2
Vang Pao, General, 157–58
Varay, Dr., 78, 87, 105
V-E Day, 25–26
Vernes, Jacqueline, 34
Victoria, Queen, 3
Vidal, Gore, 113, 166
Vidal-Quadras, Alejo, 181
Vietnam, Alsops’ trips to, 131–32, 141–43
Vietnam War
Joe Alsop’s support for, 127, 131–33, 143
Johnson’s policy on, 131–32, 134
Nixon’s policy on, 147–48
opposition to, 134
Susan Mary on, 133, 142–43
Vignaud, Bertrand du, 173
Vilmorin, Louise de, 44, 48, 56–57
Vogue, 11–12
Vyshinsky, Andreï, 45
Wallace, George, 125
Walters, Barbara, 172
Warner, Sir Frederick “Fred,” 100, 107
Washington Post, 147, 161, 171, 179
Washington Star, 151–52, 171
Watters, Susan, 178
Waugh, Evelyn, 44, 60, 62, 86, 102
Weidenfeld, George, Lord, 162
Weinberger, Caspar, 172
Welles, Orson, 82
Welles, Sumner, 17, 101
Wentworth, Jan, 180, 188, 190, 192
Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of, 52
Westmoreland, General William, 131, 133
Wharton, Edith, 181
White House art committee, 121
Whitehouse, Charles “Charlie” S., 51, 142, 157–59, 188, 191
Whitney, John “Jock” Hay, 128
Wieseltier, Leon, 181
Willkie, Wendell, 16, 17
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of, 42, 50, 173
Wirth, Timothy “Tim,” 167
Wisner, Frank, 126
Wisner, Frank (son of above-mentioned), 132, 165
World War II
American entry, 16–17
American involvement in, 16
impact on France, 26–27
outbreak of, 15–16
overseas journey during, 20
Yankees at the Court (S. M. Alsop), 176–77
Yturbe, Miguel de, 63
Zhou Enlai, 148, 149
Ziegler, Philip, 174
Zimmerman nephews, 192
Zimmerman, Corinne “Teeny,” 181
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