Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949

  p. 183 ‘What did you…’, Dominique Desanti, Les Staliniens, p. 6

  p. 183 ‘Monsieur, I would have you know…’, Jacques Dumaine, Quai d’Orsay, 1945–51, p. 27

  p. 184 ‘the bourgeois theatre…’, Jean-François Gravier, Paris: Le Désert français, p. 87

  p. 185 ‘a nostalgia for…’, Edmund Wilson, A Literary Chronicle of the Forties, p. 112

  16. AFTER THE DELUGE

  p. 187 ‘You just don’t…’, Nancy Mitford, The Blessing, p. 173

  p. 187 ‘One rule here…’, Susan Mary Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, p. 34

  p. 188 ‘expecting to be treated…’, General Count de Rougemont, as told to Susan Mary Alsop, conversation, 2 November 1992

  p. 188 ‘One asked nothing…’, Martha Gellhorn, A Honeyed Peace, p. 11

  p. 188 ‘A Free French officer…’, Guy de Rothschild, The Whims of Fortune, p. 149

  p. 188 ‘Oh! All that’s…’, Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, Un Gentilhomme cosmopolite, p. 189

  p. 189 ‘Führer of Champagne’, Odette Pol Roger, conversation, 10 October 1989

  p. 189 ‘the house smelled…’, Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, p. 27

  p. 190 ‘We were told…’, Popova’s report to Ponomarev, 16 July 1945, RGASPI 17/128/748

  p. 190 ‘has more orders…’, 29 November 1945, LDCP-CR

  p. 191 ‘They crouch…’, Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, p. 35

  p. 191 ‘Today I heard an old…’, Charlotte Mosley (ed.), Love from Nancy, p. 96

  p. 191 ‘Monsieur le duc…’, Duc de Brissac, Mémoires, p. 151

  p. 191 ‘The French…’, Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, p. 5

  p. 192 ‘a Scandinavian student…’, Claus von Bülow, conversation, 14 December 1992

  p. 192 ‘He can do no good…’, to Lascelles, 26 November 1945, DCP

  p. 192 ‘to entertain official personages…’, to Lascelles, 5 November 1945, DCP

  p. 192 ‘Wally drew me aside…’, 12 December 1945, DD

  p. 192 ‘I told him…’, 15 December 1945, DD

  p. 192 ‘The famous charm…’, Lascelles, letter, 17 November 1945, DCP

  p. 193 ‘You ought to marry…’, to Diana Mosley, 15 June 1946, NMP

  p. 193 ‘the rights of passion…’, Mosley (ed.), Love from Nancy, p. 218

  p. 193 ‘I end up…’, ibid., p. 215

  p. 194 ‘we hadn’t been there two minutes…’, 5 June 1946, NMP

  p. 194 ‘Does it not occur to you…’, quoted Selina Hastings, Nancy Mitford, p. 179

  17. COMMUNISTS IN GOVERNMENT

  p. 195 ‘I’ve seen this man…’, Jean Galtier-Boissière, Mon Journal depuis la Libération, pp. 254–5

  p. 197 ‘at least one girl…’, Susan Mary Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, p. 31

  p. 197 ‘This victory had been far away…’, Simone de Beauvoir, La Force des choses, p. 42

  p. 197 ‘too exhausted…’, Galtier-Boissière, Mon Journal depuis la Libération, p. 252

  p. 197 ‘the principal reason…’, Stepanov for Dimitrov, received 2 February 1945, RGASPI 17/128/43

  p. 199 ‘Every week…’, NARA 851.00/2-1445

  p. 200 ‘tristement petit-bourgeois’, Dominique Desanti, Les Staliniens, p. 53

  p. 201 ‘efforts to bring about…’, NARA 851.00/6-2245

  p. 201 ‘No word…’, NARA 851.00/6-1445

  p. 202 ‘cynical Hitlerian…’, Musée des Deux Guerres, Buton, p. 154

  p. 202 ‘For the whole period…’, 15 June 1945, RGASPI 17/128/748

  18. THE ABDICATION OF CHARLES XI

  p. 203 ‘De Gaulle is much blamed…’, 9 June 1945, DCD

  p. 203 ‘When I asked him…’, NARA 851.00/6-1545

  p. 203 ‘When people…’, Claude Bouchinet-Serreulles, conversation, 23 November 1992

  p. 203 ‘a hypersensitive loner…’, Philippe Boegner (ed.), Carnets du Pasteur Boegner, p. 343

  p. 204 ‘England was preparing…’, Charles de Gaulle, Mémoires de guerre, vol. iii, p. 181

  p. 205 ‘owing to recent events…’, 28 June 1945, DCD

  p. 205 ‘intended to retire…’, 27 June 1945, DCD

  p. 205 ‘l’intendance suivra’, quoted Frank Giles, The Locust Years, p. 20

  p. 206 ‘with de Gaulle…’, Winant to Secretary of State, NARA 851.00/ 6-1845

  p. 206 ‘why France saw the world…’, de Gaulle, Mémoires de guerre, vol. iii, p. 181

  p. 206 ‘A country which…’, General Impression of France, NARA 851.00/ 8-2445

  p. 209 ‘I never liked or admired…’, 13 November 1945, DCD

  p. 209 ‘le caractère national…’, quoted Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle, Le Politique, p. 217

  p. 209 ‘It’s de Gaulle…’, Luizet’s report to Ministry of the Interior, 20 November 1945, AN F/1a/3201

  p. 211 ‘Yesterday we were tricked…’, Directeur des RG au DG de SN, 21 November 1943, AN F/1a/3201

  p. 211 ‘that the Communists…’, 3 December 1946, DCD

  p. 211 ‘There are only two real…’, Caffery, secret telegramto Secretary of State, 6 December 1945, NARA 851.00/12-745

  p. 212 ‘You talk of greatness…’, Jean Monnet, Mémoires, p. 270

  p. 213 ‘was looking ill…’, 1 January 1945, DD

  p. 213 ‘their games…’, André Astoux, L’Oubli, p. 79

  p. 213 ‘felt bound up…’, Claude Bouchinet-Serreulles, conversation, 23 November 1992

  p. 214 ‘On January 20th…’, Duff Cooper, Old Men Forget, p. 365

  p. 214 ‘Gentlemen, I have decided…’, 21 January 1946, DD

  p. 214 ‘was as usual very interesting…’, 22 January 1946, DCD

  p. 214 ‘a political crisis…’, NARA 851.00/1-2046

  p. 215 ‘caused hardly a ripple…’, NARA 851.00/2-2546

  p. 215 ‘demonstrated their satisfaction…’, AN F/1a/3201

  p. 216 ‘You cannot imagine…’, Hervé Alphand, L’Étonnement d’être, p. 192

  p. 216 ‘His stomach…’, Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, vol. ii, p. 213

  p. 217 ‘Passy said that…’, Brigadier Daly, Top Secret to Deputy Director Military Intelligence, 21 April 1946, DD

  19. THE SHADOW-THEATRE: PLOTS AND COUNTER-PLOTS

  p. 221 ‘cette femme’ and ‘Very well indeed…’, 4 April 1946, DD

  p. 221 ‘The severe judgements…’, Philippe Boegner (ed.), Carnets du Pasteur Boegner, p. 323

  p. 222 ‘unemployed’ [‘en chômage’], 22 November 1945, DCD

  p. 222 ‘the Communist Party had paid…’ 17 December 1945, DD

  p. 222 ‘How many pupils…’, quoted letter to Deputy Director Military Intelligence, 4 April 1946, DD

  p. 224 ‘new political movement…’, 4 February 1946, DCD

  p. 224 ‘I have the honour to report…’, NARA 851.00/2-2546

  p. 224 ‘favourable to chaos…’, NARA 85.011/5-146

  p. 225 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, John Bruce-Lockhart, conversation, 3 July 1993; Bruce-Lockhart, the MI6 chief of station in Paris, worked with her closely

  p. 226 ‘the Communists would create incidents…’, 15 March 1946, DD

  p. 226 ‘The circulation…’, NARA 851.00/3-1446

  p. 226 ‘Clement Fried…’, NARA 751.61/5-146

  p. 227 ‘While it is difficult to state…’, NARA 851.00/3-1446

  p. 227 ‘to effect movement…’, War Department, Top Secret to General MacNarney, NARA 851.00/5-346

  p. 228 ‘General MacNarney should not be given…’, NARA 851.00/5-346

  p. 229 ‘As you may already know…’, NARA 851.00/3-1247

  20. POLITICS AND LETTERS

  p. 230 ‘the nation’s perfect baby…’, Jean Galtier-Boissière, Mon Journal dans la drôle de paix, p. 251

  p. 231 ‘competent source’, Caffery, NARA 851.00/4-2046

  p. 231 ‘plebiscite for or against Communism’, NARA 851.011/5-146

  p. 231 ‘the Cossacks…’, NARA 851.00/5-846

  p. 231 ‘I managed to…’,
Claude Mauriac, Un Autre de Gaulle, p. 190

  p. 232 ‘They imagine that France…’, Jacques Dumaine, Quai d’Orsay, 1945–51, p. 59

  p. 233 ‘We have discovered…’, André Dewavrin, conversation, 20 November 1992

  p. 233 ‘I hope we won’t set off…’, Colonel Passy, Mémoires du chef des services secrets de la France Libre, p. 23

  p. 234 ‘You’ve been poisoned’, ibid.

  p. 234 ‘It appears that the more the affair…’, NARA 851.00/6-1846

  p. 235 ‘made a good speech…’, 12 May 1946, DCD

  p. 235 ‘I will perhaps…’, Mauriac, Un Autre de Gaulle, p. 194

  p. 235 ‘will be President…’, 11 May 1946, DCD

  p. 236 ‘intensive anti-Communist…’, Robert Murphy, Top Secret to Secretary of State, NARA 851.00/5-2446

  p. 236 ‘deeply chagrined’, NARA 851.00/5-2546

  p. 237 ‘the worst catastrophe…’, Robert Murphy, Top Secret to Secretary of State, NARA 851.00/5-2566

  p. 238 ‘struck a more responsive…’, NARA 851.00/6-2046

  21. THE DIPLOMATIC BATTLEGROUND

  p. 239 ‘We do not know…’, Jacques Dumaine, Quai d’Orsay, 1945–51, p. 47

  p. 239 ‘After twenty-four hours…’, ibid., p. 55

  p. 240 ‘The next item…’, 1 May 1946, DCD

  p. 240 ‘Agreement was reached…’, 2 May 1946, DCD

  p. 240 ‘Tell Duff…’, 30 April 1946, DCD

  p. 240 ‘I had Mme Duhamel…’, 9 May 1946, DCD

  p. 241 ‘Luce is a queer duck…’, 16 May 1949, BD

  p. 241 ‘madly in love…’, 1 May 1946, DCD

  p. 241 ‘She is as pretty as ever…’, 2 December 1944, DCD

  p. 241 ‘Mrs O.R. isa…’, 4 May 1946, DCD

  p. 242 ‘was an irretrievable…’, 17 May 1946, DCD

  p. 242 ‘a strong Germany to fight…’, 26 May 1946, DCD

  p. 242 ‘une certaine nervosité’, 27 May 1946, AN F/1 a/3364

  p. 243 ‘has not taken any steps…’, Ponomarev to Molotov and Malenkov, 16 February 1946, RGASPI 17/128/967

  p. 244 ‘I’m told the…’, to Diana Mosley, 9 August 1946, NMP

  p. 244 ‘more class distinction than ever’, 10 August 1946, LDCP-CR

  p. 244 “‘Old Tawm”…’, Cyrus Sulzberger, A LongRow of Candles, p. 295

  p. 245 ‘Senator Vandenberg beside me…’, Dumaine, Quai d’Orsay, 1945–51, p. 60

  p. 245 ‘It is odd…’, 25 September 1946, DCD

  p. 245 ‘France is on the verge…’, 21 October 1946, NMP

  p. 246 Bogomolov, the Soviet ambassador, Princesse Ghislaine de Polignac, conversation, 1 July 1992

  p. 246 ‘the French Communist Party…’, Mamaine Paget, quoted Celia Goodman (ed.), Livingwith Koestler, p. 36

  p. 248 ‘He subordinated…’, Simone de Beauvoir, La Force des choses, p. 126

  p. 249 ‘a true fighter’, ibid., p. 129

  p. 249 ‘The Communists are right…’, ibid., p. 13

  22. THE FASHIONABLE WORLD

  p. 250 ‘Yes, true Parisiennes…’, Lise Deharme in Les Lettres françaises, 21 October 1944, quoted Jean-Pierre Bernard, Paris Rouge, p. 102

  p. 252 ‘I finally had the idea…’, Susan Train (ed.), Le Théâtre de la mode, p. 64

  p. 253 ‘Paris always has…’, Bettina Ballard, In My Fashion, p. 211

  p. 253 ‘No one is going to come…’, Susan Mary Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, pp. 83–4

  p. 255 ‘the paddock is overrun…’, 6 February 1946, AN F/1 a/3255

  p. 255 ‘the owner of…’, Guy de Rothschild, The Whims of Fortune, p. 101

  p. 255 ‘L’intoxiqué…’, François Billoux, Quand nous étions ministres, p. 75

  p. 255 ‘Allow me…’, quoted Georgette Elgey, La République des illusions, p. 245

  p. 257 ‘on ne parle…’, to Violet Hammersley, 6 July 1948, Charlotte Mosley (ed.), Love from Nancy, p. 217

  p. 257 ‘Neither Balmain norI…’, Christian Dior, Dior by Dior, p. 210

  p. 257 ‘Gertrude Stein with her…’, Ballard, In My Fashion, p. 229

  p. 258 “‘WHERE is ‘Miss…’, Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, p. 93

  p. 258 ‘She is living…’, 27 February 1947, DCD

  p. 258 ‘People shout…’, 6 December 1947, Mosley (ed.), Love from Nancy, p. 196

  p. 258 ‘a strange woman…’, to Diana Mosley, 29 October 1947, NMP

  p. 259 ‘The London New Look…’, to Violet Hammersley, 6 July 1948; Mosley (ed.), Love from Nancy, p. 217

  23. A TALE OF TWO CITIES

  p. 260 ‘There is the Paris…’, Paul Laurent, L’Avant-Garde, 20 December 1950, quoted Jean-Pierre Bernard, Paris Rouge, p. 10

  p. 260 ‘architecture is nothing else…’, Jean-François Gravier, Paris:Le Désert français, p. 171

  p. 261 ‘slums which ruin…’, Préfet de la Seine au Conseil Municipal, AVP 51 Db

  p. 261 ‘One cannot…’, Gravier, Paris: Le Désert français, p. 191

  p. 263 ‘Perhaps this year…’, Jean Gager, conversation, 14 March 1993

  p. 264 ‘the food position…’, SHAEF mission, Progress Report No. 19,1-15.6.45, NARA 851.00/6-2145

  p. 266 ‘The dead generally take…’, quoted Georgette Elgey, La République des illusions, p. 181

  p. 267 ‘I’msuffering today…’, 1 January 1946, LDCP-CR

  p. 267 ‘I gave them a delicious dinner…’, GrahamPayne and Sheridan Morley (eds.), The Noël Coward Diaries, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982, p. 55,6 April 1946

  p. 267 ‘two pheasants…’, Janet Flanner, Paris Journal, p. 48

  p. 268 ‘caressed the cans…’, Susan Mary Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, p. 24

  p. 268 ‘the women come to work…’, AN F/1a/3255

  p. 269 ‘It’s the foundation…’, Jean Galtier-Boissière, Mon Journal dans la grande pagaïe;, p. 18

  p. 269 ‘In most of these brothels…’, Jean Oberlé, La Vie d’artiste, p. 93

  p. 270 ‘Every breath…’, to Diana Mosley, 26 December 1946, NMP

  p. 270 ‘I never saw anything…’, ibid.

  p. 271 ‘It’s a triumph…’, 15 March 1946, LDCP-CR

  24. FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS

  p. 272 ‘It looks as though…’, 12 April 1946, DCD

  p. 272 ‘through the CGT…’, Suslov to Zhdanov, report on meeting 19 July 1946, RGASPI 17/128/967

  p. 272 ‘After the CGT…’, Alain Signor to Stepanov, 22 April 1946, RGASPI 17/128/967

  p. 272 ‘very weak’, ibid.

  p. 273 ‘Such a compromise…’, quoted André Astoux, L’Oubli, p. 93

  p. 274 ‘I’d prefer to…’, André Philip, quoted Georgette Elgey, La République des illusions, p. 231

  p. 274 ‘a man who has stood…’, quoted Jean Galtier-Boissière, Mon Journal dans la grande pagaïe;, p. 36

  p. 275 ‘align France with the Soviets…’, NARA 751.61/3-447

  p. 275 ‘The French enjoyed…’, Susan Mary Alsop, To Marietta from Paris, p. 92

  p. 276 ‘brutal candour…’, Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation, p. 213

  p. 276 ‘When we were convened…’, ibid., p. 219

  p. 276 ‘I believe that it must be…’, ibid., p. 222

  p. 277 ‘very effective administrator’, NARA 851.105/5-2147

  p. 278 ‘At the same time…’, NARA 851.00/7-947

  p. 280 ‘Madame de Gaulle clicked away…’, Jacques Soustelle, Vingt-huit ans de Gaullisme, p. 45

  p. 280 ‘ladies in mink…’, ibid., p. 48

  p. 281 ‘Sister of Hitler’s mistress…’, Charlotte Mosley (ed.), Love from Nancy, p. 180

  p. 281 ‘Like the Archangel…’, to Gaston Palewski, 12 April 1947, NMP

  p. 283 ‘Churchill, his tail-coat…’, Jacques Dumaine, Quai d’Orsay, 1945–51, p. 120

  p. 283 ‘Make no mistake…’, quoted Claude Mauriac, Un Autre de Gaulle, p. 283

  p. 284 ‘he was suddenly transfigured’, ibid., p. 289

  25. THE SELF-FULFILLING P
ROPHECY

  p. 286 ‘Examples of such solidarity…’, Hervé Alphand, L’Étonnement d’être, p. 198

  p. 286 ‘There was almost entire agreement…’, 17 June 1947, DCD

  p. 286 ‘flagrante et obstinée’, Georges Bidault, D’une Résistance à l’autre, p. 152

  p. 287 ‘impressed upon him…’, 30 June 1947, DCD

  p. 287 ‘go straight ahead…’, 1 July 1947, DCD

  p. 287 ‘seeing Molotov…’, Alphand, L’Étonnement d’être, p. 201

  p. 287 ‘All is going well…’, 7 July 1947, DCD

  p. 288 ‘lofty and demanding… Ifwedonot get…’, Sir Isaiah Berlin, conversation, 12 August 1993

  p. 288 ‘strongly objected…’, 16 July 1947, DCD

  p. 288 ‘it was very badly received’, 17 July 1947, DCD

  p. 289 ‘as though it were a treasure’, Edmund White, Jean Genet, p. 344

  p. 290 ‘a surrealist meal…’, quoted Henri Béhar, André Breton, p. 382

  p. 290 ‘We’re ruined!’, quoted James Lord, Giacometti, p. 311

  p. 290 ‘It’s wonderful…’, Béhar, André Breton, p. 383

  p. 291 ‘such a separation…’, RGASPI 77/3/94

  p. 291 ‘France has sacrificed…’, ibid.

  p. 292 ‘Comrade Stalin has said…’, RGASPI 77/3/95

  p. 292 ‘to avoid problems’, Duclos, RGASPI 77/3 c/98

  p. 292 ‘lie’, Thorez, 1 October 1947, RGASPI 17/128/265

  p. 293 ‘Information on attack groups…’, RGASPI 77/3/95

  p. 293 ‘full of glamorous…’, Celia Goodman (ed.), Livingwith Koestler, p. 58

  p. 294 ‘anti-semitic…’ quoted ibid., p. 60

  p. 294 ‘received in return a long letter…’, Arthur and Cynthia Koestler, Stranger on the Square, pp. 68–9

  p. 294 ‘At times she reminded me…’, ibid., p. 72

  p. 294 ‘in which Le Petit…’, Mamaine Paget, letter 4 November 1947, quoted Goodman (ed.), Livingwith Koestler, p. 62. This was published in the magazine Occident in 1948 under the title ‘Les Temps héroïques’.

  p. 294 ‘On n’embastille pas Voltaire’, Philippe Dechartre, conversation, 1 July 1992