Paris After the Liberation

Preface - ix

Part One: A Tale of Two Countries
1. The Marshal and the General - 3
2. The Paths of Collaboration and resistance - 10
3. The Resistance of the Interior and the Men of London - 19
4. The Race for Paris - 31
5. Liberated Paris - 52
6. The Passage of Exiles - 63
7. War Tourists and Ritzkrieg - 69
8. The Épuration Sauvage - 77

Part Two: L'État, C'est de Gaulle
9. Provisional Government - 93
10. Corps Diplomatique - 107
11. Liberators and Liberated - 123
12. Writers and Artists in the Line of Fire - 131
13. The Return of Exiles - 145
14. The Great Trials - 155
15. Hunger for the New - 170
16. After the Deluge - 186
17. Communists in Government - 195
18. The Abdication of Charles XI - 203

Part Three: Into the Cold War
19. The Shadow-Theatre: Plots and Counter-Plots - 221
20. Politics and Letters - 230
21. The Diplomatic Battleground - 239
22. The Fashionable World - 250
23. A Tale of Two Cities - 260
24. Fighting Back Against the Communists - 272
25. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - 285
26. The Republic at Bay - 297
27. The Great Boom of Saint-Germain-des-Prés - 310
28. The Curious Triangle - 321
29. The Treason of the Intellectuals - 331

Part Four: The New Normality
30. Americans in Paris - 349
31. The Tourist Invasion - 361
32. Paris sera toujours Paris - 369
33. Recurring Fevers - 374

References - 390
Bibliography - 416
Photographic Acknowledgements - 426
Index - 427