Wallace, Henry
Walter, Marie-Thérèse
Washburne, Elihu B.
Washington trials
Watson, Peter
Watt (Beckett)
Waugh, Evelyn
Wedding at Cana, The (Veronese)
Welles, Orson
Werth, Léon
Westminster, Duke of (Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor)
Westphal, Siegfried
Weygand, Maxime
White, Nancy
White, Theodore H.
Williams, Tennessee
Willingham, Calder
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Winters, Shelly
Wolfe, Bernard
Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)
“Woman and Myths” (Beauvoir)
women, emancipation of
World War I
World War II. See also Germany, Nazi; Liberation; Occupation; and specific events
U.S. entry into
Wright, Ellen Poplowitz
Wright, Julia
Wright, Rachel
Wright, Richard
Wylie, Philip
Yogi and the Commissar, The (Koestler)
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Youngerman, Jack
Zanuck, Darryl
Zen in the Art of Archery (Herrigel)
Zero
Zervos, Christian
Zhdanov, Andrei
Zhdanov Doctrine
Zinnemann, Fred
Zola, Émile
Zweig, Stefan
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Touché: A French Woman’s Take on the English
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AGNÈS POIRIER is a Paris-born and London-educated journalist, broadcaster, critic, and writer. A regular contributor to the British and American media (The Guardian, The Observer, The Times [London], The Nation, BBC, Sky News, CNN, among others) and the UK editor for the French political weekly Marianne, she is the author of four books about how France and Britain do things in opposite ways, including Touché: A French Woman’s Take on the English. She has taught at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and preselects British films for the Cannes Film Festival. She divides her time between Paris and London and loves cycling and listening to Charles Trenet. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Chronology
Cast of Characters
Map: Paris Left Bank
Introduction
I. WAR WAS MY MASTER
1. The Fall
2. The Choice
3. The Fight
4. The Desire
II. MODERN TIMES
5. A Philosophy of Existence
6. Lust and Emancipation
7. A Third Way
III. THE AMBIGUITIES OF ACTION
8. How Not to Be a Communist?
9. Love, Style, Drugs, and Loneliness
10. Action and Dissidence
11. “Paris’s Gloom Is a Powerful Astringent”
IV. SHARPENING THE SENSES
12. “They Owned Art While We Were Just Full of Dollars”
13. Stimulating the Nerves
14. Anger, Spite, and Failure
15. Vindicated
16. Farewells and a New Dawn
Photographs
Notes
Index
Also by Agnès Poirier
About the Author
Copyright
LEFT BANK. Copyright © 2018 by Agnes Poirier. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Description: New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017023902 | ISBN 9781627790246 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781627790253 (electronic book)
Subjects: LCSH: Rive gauche (Paris, France)—Intellectual life—20th century. | Paris (France)—Intellectual life—20th century.
Classification: LCC DC752.R52 P65 2018 | DDC 944/.361—dc23
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