by John Baxter
fräuleins, 178–81, 180, 314–15
Germany, 98–101, 104–5, 114, 142, 215–16, 319
Gershwin, George, 288
Gershwin, Ira, 289
Gibbons, Herbert Adams, 121
Gibbs, Philip, 24
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 182–83
Golders Green, 186–87, 186, 189
Goldsmith, Oliver, 185
Good-bye to All That (Graves), 256
Gotha bombers, 277, 281, 294
Gould, Anna, 81
Gould, Jay, 81
Grand Guignol, 295
Grand Meaulnes, Le (Alain-Fournier), 64
Graves, Robert, 23, 256, 328–29
Gray, Edward, 57
Grey, Lily, 264
Gris, Juan, 292
Gueno, Jean-Pierre, 63
Guerre des Boutons, La (Pergaud), 64
Guynemer, Georges, 31
Hadrian, 37–38
Haig, Douglas, 7–8, 11, 15–16, 26, 38, 272–73
Hall, Ben, 270
Hammett, Dashiell, 154
Hamnett, Nina, 128, 155, 157, 298
Harrods, 85
Harry’s New York Bar, 288, 336
Hedd Wyn, 303–4
Hemingway, Ernest, 53, 154, 238, 288, 332, 333, 336, 363
Henry V, King, 325
Hermant, Abel, 178
heroism, 27, 29–30
Herrick, Myron T., 233
Herter, Albert, 137–38, 137, 139
Hill, C. W., 327–28
Hoffmeister, Samuel “Frenchy,” 170
Home Guard, 269
Horace, 140
Horne, Alastair, 263
Horseferry Road, 270–71
hospitals, 306–9
Hôtel des Invalides, 53, 54
“How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm After They’ve Seen Paree?,” 246, 246
Hughes, Billy, 114–15, 118
“I Have a Rendezvous with Death” (Seeger), 20–21
“I’ll Make a Man of You” (Wimperis), 273–74
Illustration, L’, 48, 49, 145–46, 148, 195–96
“In Flanders Fields” (McCrea), 21–22
Inter-Allies Club, 310–13, 320
Iribe, Paul, 9, 238–39
Isaacs, Lillian, 264
J’Accuse (Zola), 44
jazz, 357–58
jeunesse dorée, 85
Jews, 238–39
Joan of Arc, 325
Joffre, Joseph “Papa,” 30, 49–50, 52, 54–55, 105, 144, 148, 323, 337
Jones, Elias, 327–28
Joséphine de Beauharnais, 342–43
Journey to the End of the Night (Céline), 282–84
Joyce, James, 87, 115, 288, 333
Kelly, Ned, 270
Khokhlova, Olga, 289–90
Kipling, Rudyard, 19, 220
Kirchner, Raphael, 244–45, 245
Kisling, Moise, 286
Kistemaeckers, Henry, 101–2
Kitchener, Herbert, 171
Klein, Lou, 241
Kluck, Alexander von, 52, 324
Kriegsmarine, 3
Kurowsky, Agnes von, 238
Lafayette, Marquis de, 316–17
Lafayette Flying Corps, 285–86
Land of Mist, The (Conan Doyle), 321, 322, 328
Landru, Henry Désiré, 260–62
Lardner, Ring, 255–56
Lasswell, Harold, 184
Last of Chéri, The (Colette), 240
Laughing Torso (Hamnett), 128
Lawrence, T. E., 30
Le Cuziat, Albert, 208
Lefèvre, André, 5
Léger, Fernand, 151
Lindsay, Lionel, 242
Lindsay, Norman, 114–17, 116, 147, 215, 242
Lindsay, Vachel, 357
Lloyd George, David, 304
London, 267–68, 270–73, 277, 278–81
bombing of, 277–78, 281
bus conductresses in, 279, 280
London Evening News, 325
lost generation, 362
Louis Philippe II, Prince, 158
Low, David, 30
Luger P08, 94–95, 95
Lustige Blätter, Die, 44
Machen, Arthur, 325–26
Mack, Marie Louise, 182
Madden, John, 109, 110
Marais, Jean, 31–32
Marne, Battle of, 51–56, 105, 324, 326
taxis and, 47, 53–55, 53, 56, 148, 152, 155
Marraine de l’Escouade, La, 264
Marraine des Poilus, La, 264
marraines de guerre, 259–60, 263–66, 265
Marseillaise, La, 51
Massine, Léonide, 296
Mata Hari, 234, 336
Matin, Le, 149
matrimonial agencies, 260–61
McClellan, George, 25
McCrea, John, 21–22
McDermott, E. H., 112
Medusa, 149
Mermoz, Jean, 31
Messimy, Adolphe, 49–50
Michael (friend), 117–20, 163
Miroir, Le, 146, 196
Misery Hill, 226–27, 226
mobilization, 125–27, 130, 199
Modigliani, Amedeo, 128, 157
Molony, Frank, 245–46
Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci), 63
Montel, Marie-Dominique, 68–69, 78, 91, 112, 196, 311, 382
Morand, Paul, 217, 318–19, 339–42, 378
Morane, Léon, 341–42
Morant, Harry “Breaker,” 171–72
Mot, Le, 38, 215–16
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 176–77
Mucha, Alphonse, 59
Munro-Ferguson, Ronald Craufurd, 106
Murder of Edith Cavell, The (Bellows), 234–35, 235
mustard gas, 204–5, 305–6, 351
My First Week in Flanders (Armstrong), 191
Napoleon I, 39, 400, 342
Navarre, Jean, 286
Neil (scholar), 186, 187–93, 194, 359
New York Times, 236, 331
Nicholas II, Czar, 104, 277, 302–3
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 79, 263
Nieuwpoort, 8, 11, 38
Night and Day, 331
Nijinsky, Vaslav, 32–33, 217, 296
Noel, Art, 229
Nursie, Nursie (Noel and Pelosi), 229
nursing, 232–34, 237–38, 237, 239
“Old Australian Ways, The” (Paterson), 267
Old Issue, The (Kipling), 19
“On Portents” (Graves), 329
“Over There” (Cohan), 310
Owen, Wilfred, 15, 20, 23, 30, 140, 329
Palais Royale, 158
Parade, 217–19, 289–99, 356
“Paris 1917” (Gaines), 330
Paris-Geschütz (Paris Gun), 3–4, 4, 5, 356
Pasternak, Boris, 111
Paterson, Andrew Barton “Banjo,” 170–71, 267
Patou, Jean, 8, 208
Patton, George, 18
Pelosi, Don, 229
Penrose, Roland, 297
Pergaud, Louis, 64
Perrault, Charles, 258
Pershing, John, 160, 317, 319, 334, 337, 338, 339, 360
Pétain, Philippe, 30–31, 319
Picasso, Pablo, 63, 115, 218, 219, 289, 291–92, 296, 297
Pierrots, 307, 307
pinard, 54, 152, 326
poets, 20–24
Poets’ Corner, 23
poilus, 36, 37, 41, 88–89, 89, 144, 149, 152, 153, 199, 212, 230, 234, 242, 244, 286, 323, 326, 347
marraines de guerre and, 259–60, 263–66, 265
Poiret, Paul, 8–9, 10, 37, 80, 208, 286
police, cars confiscated by, 155, 156
Polignac, Princess de, 292
Porter, Cole, 214–15, 331–32
postcards, 145, 152, 192–93, 193, 197, 200
potes, les, 244, 264
Poueigh, Jean, 298–99
Poulenc, Francis, 292, 296–97, 356–57
Pound, Ezra, 151, 363
Princip, Gavrilo, 103–4
/> Private Lives (Coward), 221
prostitution, 158, 225, 228, 253, 258
brothels, 82–83, 143, 173, 207–8, 252, 334–36
Proust, Marcel, 33, 60, 88, 138, 207–8, 210–11, 212, 336, 339, 383
Prussia, 98
Franco-Prussian War, 25, 39, 47, 101
psychic phenomena, 321–29
Puccini, Giacomo, 82
Punch, 277
Quiévrecourt, Yvonne de, 64
railway carriage adapted to carry wounded, 305
railways, 130–31, 134
Rapsodie Nègre, La (Poulenc), 356–57
rastaquouères, 284–85, 288, 335
Ravel, Maurice, 33, 57, 293
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 7
Régiment, Le, 146
Reinhardt, Max, 62
Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front, 14–15, 149–51, 150
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 33
Returned Soldiers League, 139
Rice, Grantland, 360
Richthofen, Manfred von, 30
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 30, 160
Rimbaud, Arthur, 282, 383
Rising Sun Badge, 226, 226
Rite of Spring, The (Le Sacre du Printemps) (Stravinsky), 9, 85–86, 299
Robida, Albert, 101
Ross, Harold, 360
Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), 204, 239
Rubens, Paul, 129
Russia, 161, 293, 319–20
revolution in, 277, 282
Sacre du Printemps, Le (The Rite of Spring) (Stravinsky), 9, 85–86, 299
Saint-Gervais, 5
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 177–78
San Fairy Ann, 68–69, 69, 119, 382
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 339
Sassoon, Siegfried, 20, 23
Satie, Erik, 33, 218, 219, 291–93, 298–99, 356
sausages, 311–12
German, 176, 176
Sauvêtre, Father, 323
Scandal in Arms, A (Conan Doyle), 201
Schlieffen, Alfred von, 52
Schubert, Franz, 177
Seeger, Alan, 20–21
Sentimental Bloke, The (Dennis), 107–8
Sert, Misia, 8–9, 33–35, 212, 217, 218, 286, 292, 293
Seyffertitz, Gustav von, 176
Shakespeare & Company, 154
“Shower, The” (Cocteau), 38
Simpson, Jack, 30
Sloan, Tod, 288
Smith, Bernard, 117
Smith-Dorrien, Horace, 323
“Soldier, The” (Brooke), 23–24
“Something About a Soldier” (Gay), 39
Somme, Battle of, 165, 190, 222, 227, 321
Sousa, John Philip, 353
Soutzo, Hélène, 217
spies, see espionage
Sporting Club de France, 362
Stanley, Peter, 111, 169, 239
Stanton, Charles, 317
Stars and Stripes, 148, 247–48, 341, 360–61
Stars and Stripes March, The (Sousa), 353
Steegmuller, Francis, 293
Stein, Gertrude, 83, 152, 288, 330, 362
Steinlen, Theophile, 36
Strachey, Lytton, 275–76
Stravinsky, Igor, The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps), 9, 85–86, 299
“Strike Up the Band” (Gershwin), 289
submarines, 303, 309
Sweeney Agonistes (Eliot), 92
tafia, 152–53, 326
“Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty,” 268
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 345
“There’s Someone More Lonesome Than You” (Klein and Von Tilzer), 241
This Must Be the Place (Hemingway), 288
Thomas, Edward, 20, 114, 327
Thomas the Imposter (Cocteau), 34–36
Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear (Satie), 33
Three Sisters (Chekhov), v
Three Soldiers (Dos Passos), 214
“Tipperary,” 242–44, 243, 256, 264
“Tommy” (Kipling), 220
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 33, 83
tourism, 79, 155, 251, 363
transition, 333
trench art, 151, 200
troop ships, 164, 167
troops of the Allied armies, 17
Turpin, Eugène, 326–27
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), 101
Two-up, 168–69, 168
Tuffrau, Paul, 214
Tunbridge, Joe, 194
“Ulysses” (Tennyson), 345
Under Fire (Le Feu) (Barbusse), 212, 213–14
uniforms, 40–42, 41, 43, 213–15, 287
fashion inspired by, 209, 211
vacances, 133
van Diemen, Peter, 90–91, 92–97, 123–27, 129, 199, 201–6, 312, 359, 378–82
Varèse, Edgard, 218–19
Vassilieff, Marie, 157
Vélodrome d’Hiver, 63, 65, 130
Verne, Jules, 101, 290, 291, 326–27
Victoria, Queen, 248, 277
Vie Parisienne, La, 46, 47, 146, 195, 231–32, 238, 244–45, 245, 264
vieux jeux, 85, 86
Villa, Pancho, 160
Vincent, René, 101–2, 102
Vines, Ricardo, 292
Virgil, 66
Von Tilzer, Harry, 241
“Waltzing Matilda” (Paterson), 170–71, 269
War in the Air, The (Wells), 101
War of the Buttons, The (Pergaud), 64
War Service Library, 353–55, 354
War That Will End War, The (Wells), 14
Washington, George, 316
Weizmann, Chaim, 276
Wellman, William, Jr., 285–86
Wells, H. G., 14, 101
western front, 14–17
Westminster Abbey, 23
Wharton, Edith, 45, 58–60, 131–32, 134–35, 213, 361–62
“What’ll I Do?” (Berlin), 71
White, Pearl, 219, 356
Wilde, Oscar, 61
Wilf (guide), 220–26, 228
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 99, 105, 115, 144, 198, 302–3
Williams, Gerald, 304
Wilson, Woodrow, 309
Wiltshire, 221–23
Wimperis, Arthur, 273–74
wine, 230, 255
pinard, 54, 152, 326
Wipers Times, The, 232, 255
Woman’s Experiences in the Great War, A (Mack), 182–84
Woolf, Virginia, 330
Woollcott, Alexander, 360
Woolley, Monty, 214–15
Woon, Basil, 362
World War II, 31, 117
Yeats, W. B., 22–23
York, Alvin, 15, 30, 160
“Your King and Country Want You” (Rubens), 129
zeppelins, 46, 47, 277
Zola, Emile, 44
Zouaves, 37, 215, 238, 331, 347
Zuckmayer, Carl, 62
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John Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. He is the author of four acclaimed memoirs about his life in France: The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France; The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris; Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas; and We’ll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light. Baxter, who gives literary walking tours through Paris, is also a film critic and biographer whose subjects have included the directors Fellini, Kubrick, Woody Allen, and most recently, Josef von Sternberg. Born in Australia, he lives with his wife and daughter in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, in the same building Sylvia Beach called home.
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