Research Catalog

Title

A French affair : the Paris beat, 1965-1998 / Mary Blume ; drawings by Ronald Searle.

Author

Blume, Mary.

Publication

New York, NY : Free Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xx, 179 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• "America and France have always had a special relationship. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the two have enjoyed a love affair of sorts, with all the love/hate dynamics that suggests. From Benjamin Franklin charming Louis XVI to Jackie Kennedy enchanting Charles de Gaulle, the two peoples have fascinated and repelled each other. Mary Blume has cultivated her own love affair with this often inscrutable land - France."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Quintessentially American, she has managed that fine trick of not assimilating, and yet coming to know, in the fullest sense, the place and the people in all their often sublime and sometimes ridiculous complexity. In the pieces themselves, whether she turns her penetrating lens on Frenchmen or their money or their socks, whether a bearded lady or simone de Beauvoir, street performers or members of the Academie Francaise, whether the newest chic potato or the eternally chic St.
• Germain de Pres, whether the events of May '68 or the last presidential elections, she sees what would pass unseen - were she not there to notice it."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Blume, Mary > Homes and haunts > Paris
• National characteristics, French > Humor
• Americans > Paris > Attitudes
• Women journalists > Paris > Attitudes
• Paris (France) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Humor

Contents

• Paris France. When Paris Put On Its Best Dress. Men Will Be Boys. Genet: French Rigor and American Gusto. The Friends of Mona Lisa. A Rueful Glance Ahead at New Face of Paris. The Last Old-Time Soup Kitchen in Paris. A Struggle for the Soul of a Paris Restaurant. Paris in a Bottle: A Wine Grower's Dream. Animating Paris, City Hall Style. Cooking Classes by Princess and Countess. Potato of Snobs, Dainty and Newly Chic, Captivates Paris. Daniel Cohn-Bendit: Ten Years After the Events of May. Happy Memories of Gray Paris in the Fifties. Vionnet, Last of the Great Couturiers. The Fine Art of Window Shopping. Saint-Germain's Latest Brainstorm. Simone Signoret: A Memory -- Rites and Rules. Paris - La France Profonde Comes Back to Town. Money Speaks in France. Getting Through France's Linguistic Jungle. Exemplary, Bearded Clementine. The 2 CV: They Laughed, Then Loved It. Age-Rated French Encyclopedia on Sex. Luminous Ideas of the Concours Lepine. Assembly Line Vacations.
• French Pursuing the Right Number. How Long Is Long? The Meter Turns 200. The "Rustproof" Candidate for the French Presidency. Virtuosi of the People's Piano. French History: Past and Present Clash. An Election in Which the Scofflaw Wins. 1944: The Many Who Were Forgotten. Letting Loose and Holding Down. Be Careful, It's Mushroom Season Again. Monsieur le Perpetuel to the Rescue of English. Why a Leopard Cannot Change Its Spots -- Words and Images. A Vintage Year for Duras. Simone de Beauvoir Talks, and Talks. V.S. Pritchett's Cheerful Laments. Elisabeth Lutyens: "A Dog Barks and a Composer Composes" Erich Salomon's Eye on Clever Hopes. Keeping Berlin Berlinisch. "Love Ya": Voznesensky and His Collages. Brassai, Among Friends. Robert Doisneau's "Little Scraps of Time" Photographer Don McCullin: "The Dark Side of a Lifetime" Christo in Search of a Perfect Umbrella. Peter Brook: "One Has to Do Everything as Lightly as Possible" Robert Morley Has Just Had Fun.
• Before "Paradise" and After - Carne's Prickly Recollections. A Renoir Air of Family. Francois Truffaut - Love and Children. Alain Resnais: The Rhythm of the Ear and Eye. In Raul Ruiz's Cinematic Labyrinth. Wertmuller: "I Love Chaos" Fate, Fellini and Casanova. Ingmar Bergman: A Shadow of the Future. Marcel Ophuls, Professional Memory Man. Bertrand Tavernier and the War That Never Ended. Ella Maillart at Her Journey's End. A Lost World in Paris.

ISBN

0684863014

LCCN

99017142

OCLC

• ocm40668302
• SCSB-14276796

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries