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Left Bank

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by Agnès Poirier

Acheson, Dean

  Action

  Action Painting

  Adams, Alice

  Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Flemish polyptych)

  Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow)

  Aeschylus

  African Americans

  Age of Longing, The (Koestler)

  Age of Reason, The (Sartre)

  aigle à deux têtes, L’ (The Two-Headed Eagle) (Cocteau)

  Akhmatova, Anna

  À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust)

  Algren, Nelson

  Alliance Française

  Altman, Georges

  Aly Khan, Prince

  American in Paris, An (film)

  American National Interests Commissary

  American Trade Unions

  Andromaque (Racine)

  Annabel

  Annales School

  Anouilh, Jean

  Antelme, Robert

  anti-Communism

  Antigone (Anouilh)

  anti-roman (anti-novel)

  “Anti-Semite and Jew” (Sartre)

  anti-Semitic laws

  anti-Semitism

  Apollinaire

  Aragon, Louis

  Arcachon, France

  Arche, L’

  Arendt, Hannah

  Arletty

  Armistice of June 1940

  Armorin, Jean-François

  Armstrong, Louis

  Aron, Raymond

  Arp, Jean

  Arrival and Departure (Koestler)

  Artaud, Antonin

  “Art et Résistance” exhibition

  asphyxie, L’ (In the Prison of Her Skin) (Leduc)

  Assouline, Pierre

  Astaire, Fred

  Atlantic Monthly

  Aumont, Jean-Pierre

  Aury, Dominique

  Auschwitz

  Austria

  Ayer, A. J.

  Bacall, Lauren

  Baldwin, James

  Balmain, Pierre

  Balthus

  Balzac, Honoré de

  Barbary Shore (Mailer)

  Barbezat, Olga (née Kechelievitch)

  Bardot, Anne-Marie

  Bardot, Brigitte

  bar du crépuscule, Le (Twilight Bar) (Koestler)

  Barrault, Jean-Louis

  Barthes, Roland

  Bartók, Belá

  Baudelaire, Charles

  Bazelon, David

  Bazin, André

  Bazin, Germain

  BBC

  Beach, Sylvia

  Beaton, Cecil

  Beauvoir, Simone de

  abortion and

  affairs and

  Algren and

  America and

  atomic bombing of Japan and

  Bardot and Sagan and

  Camus and

  Communists and

  drugs and

  existentialism and

  Gallimard and

  as independent woman

  jazz and

  Koestler and

  La Louisiane hotel and

  Leduc and

  Les Temps modernes and

  Liberation and

  moves to rue de la Bûcherie

  non-Communist left and

  Occupation and

  Picasso and

  Portugal and Spain and

  prewar life

  Sartre and

  teaching and

  Wright and

  writes Le sang des autres

  writes Les mandarins

  writes L’invitée

  writes The Second Sex

  writes Tous les hommes sont mortels

  writing discipline of

  Bechet, Sidney

  Beckett, Samuel

  Behrstock, Julian

  Being and Nothingness. See être et le néant, L’

  belle et la bête, La (Beauty and the Beast) (Cocteau)

  Bellow, Anita

  Bellow, Gregory

  Bellow, Saul

  Benveniste, Asa

  Bérard, Christian

  Berg, Marina de

  Bergé, Pierre

  Bergson, Henri

  Berlin, Isaiah

  Bernanos, Georges

  Berr, Hélène

  Bettina (Bettina Graziani)

  Beveridge, William

  Bevin, Ernest

  Bidault, Georges

  Bienenfeld, Bianca

  Black Boy (Wright)

  Black Metropolis (Drake and Cayton)

  Blair, Betsy

  Blake, Patricia

  Blanzat, Jean

  Blin, Roger

  Bloch, Marc

  Blum, Léon

  Bogart, Humphrey

  Boitel, Jeanne (Mozart)

  Bonjour tristesse (Sagan)

  Bonnard, Abel

  Bonnard, Pierre

  Book Committee

  Book of American Negro Spirituals, The (Johnson)

  “Born in 1925” (Stéphane)

  Bost, Jacques-Laurent

  Boulez, Pierre

  Bourla, Jean-Pierre

  Boussac, Marcel

  Bowles, Paul

  Bradley, Omar

  Brâncusi, Constantin

  Brando, Marlon

  Braque, Georges

  Atelier IX

  Brasillach, Robert

  Brassaï

  Brasseur, Pierre

  Braun, Pierre

  Brauner, Victor

  Breker, Arno

  Brentano, Bettina

  Breton, André

  Breton, Jacqueline

  Britain

  British army

  British Royal Air Force (RAF)

  Brook, Peter

  Brown, John L.

  Brownell, Sonia (later Orwell)

  Bruller, Jean “Vercors”

  Buber-Neumann, Margarete “Greta”

  Buchenwald

  Buchwald, Art

  Buffet, Bernard

  Bullitt, Louisa Gross Horowitz

  Bullitt, William Christian, Jr.

  Butor, Michel

  Cage, John

  Cahiers d’Art

  Calder, Alexander

  Caligula (Camus)

  calmant, Le (The Calmative) (Beckett)

  Camus, Albert

  Camus, Catherine

  Camus, Francine Faure

  Camus, Jean

  Canadian army

  Canard enchaîné, Le

  Capa, Robert

  Capital (Marx)

  Capote, Truman

  Carentan, France

  Carné, Marcel

  Caron, Leslie

  Carone, Walter

  Carré, Louis

  Cartier-Bresson, Henri

  Casablanca (film)

  Casanova, Laurent

  Casarès, Maria

  Catholic Church

  Cau, Jean

  Cayton, Horace R.

  Cazalis, Anne-Marie

  Cazaux, Yves

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

  censorship by Nazis

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Cervantes, Guadalupe

  Césaire, Aimé

  Ce Soir

  Cézanne, Paul

  Chabrol, Claude

  Chagall, Marc

  Chamson, André

  Chandler, Raymond

  Chanel, Coco

  Chaplin, Charlie

  Chateaubriand

  chemins de la liberté, Les (The Roads to Freedom) (Sartre)

  Chenal, Pierre (Philippe Cohen)

  Chevalier, Maurice

  Chim (David Seymour)

  Chirico, Giorgio de

  Choltitz, Deitrich von

  Churchill, Winston

  Citizen Kane (film)

  Claudel, Paul

  Clift, Montgomery

  Cocteau, Jean

  Cold War

  Colette

  collaborators

  purge of

  Collier’s

  Combat

  Comité Général d’Études
/>   Comité National de la Résistance (CNR)

  Comité National des Écrivains (CNE)

  Committee for the First Amendment

  Communists, French

  resistance and

  Communists, Italian

  Communists, U.S.

  Communist Trade Union (CGT)

  Communist Youth Movement

  Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité (CRS)

  concentration camps

  Connolly, Cyril

  Connolly, Patricia

  Conrad, Joseph

  containment policy

  Cooper, Gary

  Couturier, Pierre

  “Crab and the Butterfly, The” (Bellow)

  Crack-Up, The (Fitzgerald)

  Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli) (Levi)

  Croix, La

  Crowther, Bosley

  Cubism

  Cummings, E. E.

  Cunningham, Merce

  Cuny, Alain

  Czech coup of 1948

  Dachau

  Dalí, Gala

  Dalí, Salvador

  Dangling Man (Bellow)

  Darkness at Noon (Koestler)

  Daughter of the Regiment, The (Donizetti)

  David, Jacques-Louis

  The Coronation of Napoleon

  da Vinci, Leonardo

  Mona Lisa

  Davis, Cheryl

  Davis, Garry

  Davis, Gregory

  Davis, Meyer

  Davis, Miles

  D-Day landings

  Déchevaux-Dumesnil, Suzanne

  Décour, Jacques

  de Gaulle, Charles

  de Gaulle, Geneviève

  Delacroix, Eugène

  Crusaders

  Delvaux, Paul

  Democratic Party (U.S.)

  Depression

  Descartes, René

  De Sica, Vittorio

  deuxième sexe, Le. See Second Sex, The

  Diaghilev, Sergei

  Dien Bien Phu, Battle of

  Dietrich, Marlene

  Dincklage, Hans Günther von

  Dior, Christian

  Disney, Walt

  Doisneau, Robert

  Dos Passos, John

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  Drake, St. Clair

  Drancy internment camp

  Dreyfus affair

  Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre

  Dubuffet, Jean

  Duc, Hélène

  Duchamp, Marcel

  Duhamel, Marcel

  Dullin, Charles

  Dumas, Alexandre

  Dumont, Madame

  Duras, Marguerite

  Duthuit, Georges

  Eastern Europe

  Economic Cooperation Act (1948)

  écume des jours, L’ (Foam of the Days) (Vian)

  Éditions de Minuit, Les (Midnight Editions)

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Eleutheria (Beckett)

  Elizabeth, queen of England

  Elle

  Ellington, Duke

  Ellison, Ralph

  Éluard, Paul

  Emergency Rescue Committee

  End as a Man (Willingham)

  “End of the War, The” (Sartre)

  enfants du paradis, Les (Children of Paradise) (film)

  Engel, Monroe

  Engelman, Wilfred

  Entente Cordiale

  envers et l’endroit, L’ (Betwixt and Between) (Camus)

  Erasmus

  Ernst, Max

  Escoffier, Madame

  Esprit

  Essling, Princess d’

  étranger, L’ (The Outsider) (Camus)

  être et le néant, L’ (Being and Nothingness) (Sartre)

  Europe, independent

  European Common Market

  Ève et les autres (Thomas)

  “Everybody’s Protest Novel” (Baldwin)

  Existentialism

  expulsé, L’ (The Expelled) (Beckett)

  “Faith and Bad Faith” (Merleau-Ponty)

  Farrell, James T.

  Fascism

  Fascism, Italy and

  Faulkner, William

  Faure, Francine. See Camus, Francine Faure

  Fautrier, Jean

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  feminism

  Femmes françaises

  Fernandez, Ramon

  “feu dans la nuée, Le” (“Fire and Cloud”) (Wright)

  Figaro, Le

  fin, La (The End) (Beckett)

  Fischer, John

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  Flanner, Janet (Genêt)

  Flaubert, Gustave

  Flies, The. See mouches, Les

  Flying Dutchman, The (Wagner)

  Foch, Ferdinand Jean Marie

  Force Ouvrière (FO)

  Forces Françaises Intérieures (FFI)

  Ford, John

  Fortune

  Fougeron, André

  Franc-Tireur

  France

  Second Republic

  Third Republic

  Fourth Republic

  France, Anatole

  France Dimanche

  Franco, Francisco

  Free French

  French army

  2nd Armored Division (2nd DB)

  Third Army

  French constitution

  of 1875

  of 1946 (Gaullist)

  French Consultative Assembly

  French Court of Justice

  French elections

  of 1945

  of 1946

  French exiles

  French Foreign Legion

  French Hussars

  French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  French Ministry of Information

  French National Archives

  French National Assembly

  French National Library

  French Revolution

  French Senate

  Freud, Lucian

  Freud, Sigmund

  Freund, Gisèle

  Front National, Le

  Front Populaire

  “Front Rouge” (Aragon)

  Full Employment in a Free Society (Beveridge)

  Gabin, Jean

  Galérie Arnaud Lefebvre

  Galérie Maeght

  Galérie René Drouin

  Gallimard, Gaston

  Gallimard publishers

  Gamelin, Maurice Gustave

  Garaudy, Roger

  García Lorca, Federico

  Gardens and Roads (Jünger)

  Gaullists

  Geist, Eileen

  Geist, Stanley

  Generation of Vipers (Wylie)

  Genet, Jean

  Gengenbach, Abbot

  Geometric Abstraction

  George VI, king of England

  Gerbe, La

  German army (Wehrmacht)

  German Institute

  German Luftwaffe

  German Naval Forces

  German SD (Sicherheistdienst)

  German SS (Schutzstaffel)

  Germany, Nazi

  Soviet Nonaggression Pact

  surrender of

  Germany, postwar

  Gershwin, George

  Gestapo

  Giacometti, Alberto

  L’homme qui marche (Man Walking)

  GI Bill

  Gide, André

  Gillespie, Dizzy

  Gilot, Françoise

  Giroud, Françoise

  Glen, Tyree

  Gloria (Resistance network)

  Godard, Jean-Luc

  God That Failed, The

  Goethe, Johann W. von

  Goldmann, Lucien

  Goodman, Mitchell

  Göring, Hermann

  Gorky, Agnès

  Gorky, Arshile

  Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin)

  Goudeket, Maurice

  Gramsci, Antonio

  “Grand Schisme, Le” (Aron)

&n
bsp; Granger, Farley

  Grant, Cary

  Gréco, Charlotte

  Gréco, Juliette

  Greenberg, Clement

  Grr, Les

  Guéhenno, Jean

  Guernica

  Guggenheim, Peggy

  Guillot, Laure Albin

  Guitry, Sacha

  Guyonnet, Jean

  Hardwick, Elizabeth

  Hardy, Daphne

  Hare, David

  Harper’s Bazaar

  Hartung, Hans

  Hawkins, Coleman

  Hawkins, Eric

  Hawks, Howard

  Hayworth, Rita

  Hegel, Georg W. F

  Heidegger, Martin

  Hélion, Jean

  Heller, Gerhard

  Hellman, Lillian

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Hemingway, Patrick

  Hepburn, Katharine

  Herodotus

  “Heroic Times” (Koestler)

  Herrand, Marcel

  Herrick, Myron T.

  Herrigel, Eugen

  Hidden God (Goldmann)

  Himes, Chester

  Hiroshima and Nagaski

  His Girl Friday (film)

  Histoire d’O (Story of O) (Réage/Aury)

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hitler, Adolf

  Ho Chi Minh

  Hoetis, Themistocles (George Solomos)

  Hokusai

  Holiday, Billie

  Hollywood

  Hollywood Ten

  Holocaust. See also concentration camps

  Homme du sud, L’ (The Southerner) (film)

  homosexuals

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Horizon

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

  Hughes, Langston

  Hugo, Victor

  Huis clos (No Exit) (Sartre)

  Humanité, L’

  Humbert, Agnès

  Huston, John

  I Chose Freedom (Kravchenko)

  If This Is a Man (Levi)

  “Impromptu de Philosophes, L’” (Camus)

  Indochina

  Informel movement

  International Brigades

  International Herald Tribune

  International Relief and Rescue Committee

  invitée, L’ (She Came to Stay) (Beauvoir)

  Iron Curtain

  “Is Existentialism a Humanism?” (Sartre)

  Israel

  Italian Neorealism

  Italy

  “I Tried to Be a Communist” (Wright)

  Jacques, Robert

  Jaeger, Claude

  James, Henry

  Japan

  Jarre, Maurice

  Jaujard, Jacques

  Javanais, Les (Men of Nowhere) (Malaquais)

  jazz

  Jazzmen (Russell and Smith)

  Jefferies, Cynthia

  Je Suis Partout

  Jews

  Occupation and

  J’irai Cracher sur vos tombes (I’ll Spit on Your Graves) (Sullivan/Vian)

  Joan of Arc

  Johnson, James Weldon

  Jour de fête (film)

  jours de notre mort, Les (The Days of Our Death) (Rousset)

  Jouvet, Louis

  Joyce, James

  Judt, Tony

  Julliard, René

  Jünger, Ernst

  Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry

  Kanapa, Jean

  Kandinsky, Wassily

  Kaplan, Celia

  Kaplan, Harold

  Kazin, Alfred

  Kelly, Ellsworth

  Meschers, The

  Seine

  Window, Museum of Modern Art, Paris

  Kelly, Gene

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

  Kitt, Eartha

  Koestler, Arthur (Albert Dubert)

 

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