p. 50 ‘The request of Georges Bidault…’, René Brouillet, conversation, 15 October 1992
p. 51 ‘were not very good’, 25 August 1944, BD
p. 51 ‘
débauche de fraternité
’, Beauvoir,
La Force des choses,
p. 13
5. LIBERATED PARIS
p. 53 ‘The combination was enough…’, 25 August 1944, BD
p. 54 ‘
C’est un plébiscite
’, Bulletin No. 1, 1 October 1944, IFOP
p. 54 ‘There took place…’, Charles de Gaulle,
Mémoires de guerre,
vol. ii, p. 313
p. 54 ‘Mixed in the immense crowd…’, Simone de Beauvoir,
La Force de l’âge,
p. 612
p. 55 ‘cut in half’, Jean Cocteau,
Journal 1942–1945,
p. 534
p. 55 ‘The heroes multiplied…’, Jean Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal pendant l’Occupation,
p. 284
p. 56 ‘The effect was fantastic…’, Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time,
vol. ii, p. 211
p. 56 ‘Public order…’, Philippe Boegner (ed.),
Carnets du Pasteur Boegner,
p. 301
p. 57 ‘like a marriage feast’, Philippe Robrieux,
Histoire intérieure du parti communiste,
vol. ii, p. 20
p. 57 ‘For shit’s sake…’, quoted ibid., vol. i, p. 519
p. 60 ‘the spoken word…’, Beauvoir,
La Force de l’âge,
p. 599
p. 60 ‘packed full of types…’, Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal depuis la Libération,
p. 43
p. 61 ‘the short lampshade skirts…’, Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal pendant l’Occupation,
p. 251
p. 61 ‘
les élégantes
…’, Beauvoir,
La Force de l’âge,
p. 597
p. 61 ‘
se dédouaner
’, Hervé Le Boterf,
La Vie parisienne sous l’Occupation,
p. 414
p. 62 ‘There were only flickering…’, Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time,
p. 211
6. THE PASSAGE OF EXILES
p. 67 ‘This is not the occasion…’, P. G. Wodehouse to Home Secretary, 4 September 1944, copy included in MI5 report of 28 September 1944, DCP
p. 68 ‘that the best thing…’, DCD, 1 December 1944
p. 68 ‘a gloomy sort of chap’, Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time,
vol. ii, p. 232
7. WAR TOURISTS AND RITZKRIEG
p. 70 ‘Hitlers come and go…’, Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time,
vol. ii, p. 221
p. 71 ‘Paris was liberated…’, Brassaï,
Conversations avec Picasso,
p. 150
p. 71 ‘Who’s there?…’, Cleve Gray, conversation, 24 November 1992
p. 73 ‘It was an American enclave…’, Simone de Beauvoir,
La Force des choses,
p. 29
p. 73 ‘I’m Eric Blair’, Paul Potts,
Dante Called you Beatrice
(London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960), quoted Bernard Crick,
George Orwell,
p. 324
p. 74 ‘
Vous êtes un général
…’, Beauvoir,
La Force des choses,
p. 27, and Magouche Fielding, conversation, 18 February 1992
p. 74 ‘the impression that members…’, 5 October 1944, DD
p. 76 ‘beginning a romance’, Martha Gellhorn,
A Honeyed Peace,
p. 74
p. 76 ‘a prudery…’, 6 February 1945, AN F/1 a/3255
8. THE É PURATION SAUVAGE
p. 77 ‘At Saint-Sauveur…’, 28 June 1944, BD
p. 78 ‘My ass…’, Jean Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal depuis la Libération,
p. 11
p. 79 ‘you did not have to be cosy…’, Sir Isaiah Berlin, conversation, 12 August 1993
p. 81 ‘Considering their youth…’, Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time,
vol. ii, p. 217
p. 83 ‘made incapable…’, Director-General of SNCF, AN F/1 a/3208
p. 83 ‘The BST…’, Controller-General Robineau to Inspector-General of Police, 23 November 1945, AN F/1 a/3246
p. 84 ‘If you take away my braces…’, Madame du Bouëtez, French Red Cross representative, Paris prisons, conversation, 29 July 1992
p. 86 ‘It must be acknowledged…’, report by Inspector-General of Prisons to Minister of Justice, 21 July 1945, AN F/1 a/4611
p. 87 ‘Have you got any customers…’, Roger Codou, conversation, 13 March 1993
p. 88 ‘violent death of undetermined nature’, AVP, Per 55
p. 89 ‘
de caractère politique
’, Direction des Renseignements Généraux, 25 August 1945, AN F/1 a/3349
p. 89 ‘France is a country…’, quoted Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal depuis la Libération,
p. 210
p. 90 the
épuration
in France…, Jean-Pierre Rioux,
La France de la Quatrième République,
vol. i, p. 32
p. 90 French who served in German uniform, Henry Rousso, conversation, 30 July 1992
9. PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
p. 93 ‘prevent at any price…’, Kozirev to Ponomarev, International Section of the Central Committee, 9 July 1945, RGASPI 17/128/802
p. 93 ‘De Gaulle is afraid….’, Dimitrov and Ponomarev, 30 November 1944, RGASPI 17/128/14
p. 95 ‘a provoking attitude…’, Louis Closon,
Commissaire de la République,
p. 69
p. 95 ‘At the time of the Liberation…’, quoted M. R. D. Foot,
SOE in France,
p. 420
p. 95 ‘Toulouse was the souk…’, Jacques Baumel, conversation, 6 August 1992
p. 97 ‘
belle brochette de colonels
’, quoted Henri Amouroux,
Les Règlements de comptes,
vol. ix, p. 165
p. 100 ‘more nicknames…’, René Serre,
Croisade à coups de poings,
p. 142
p. 100 ‘This adventure was unexpected…’, Georges Bidault,
D’une Résistance à l’autre,
p. 70
p. 101 ‘
peuplé de Vichy
’, Hervé Alphand,
L’Étonnement d’être,
p. 181
p. 101 ‘He could have helped me…’, 13 February 1947, DCD
p. 102 ‘There has been snow…’, NARA 851.00/1-2045
p. 102
la Collecte,
report of 2 February 1945 by Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nationale, AN F/1 a/3249
p. 102 ‘the child St Augustine…’, François Mauriac,
Journal,
vol. iv, p. 8
p. 103 ‘Milk for our little ones!’, AN F/1 a/3250
p. 103 ‘the Siege of Paris’, AN F/1 a/3249
p. 103 ‘suitcase-carriers’, Yves Farge,
Le Pain de la corruption,
p. 10
p. 103 ‘In the circumstances…’, 26 March 1945, AN F/1 a/3250
p. 104 ‘We are most unhappy…’, AN F/1 a/3208
p. 104 ‘The insufficient purge…’, October 1945, report on activity of CGT, RGASPI 17/128/16
p. 104 ‘
un problème délicat
’, Ministre des Travaux Publics, 17 October 1944, AN F/1 a/3208
p. 104 ‘The directors of the Renault factories…’,
L’Humanité,
22 August 1944, quoted Pierre Assouline,
L’Épuration des intellectuels,
p. 22
p. 105 ‘fulfilled its duty to the nation…’, quoted Gaston Palewski,
Mémoires d’action,
p. 228
p. 106 ‘to put Humpty Dumpty…’, Grover Smith (ed.),
Letters of Aldous Huxley,
p. 516
10. CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE
p. 107 ‘He seemed curiously young…’, 14 September 1944, DCD
p. 108 ‘At
last
!’, Sir Alexander Cadogan,
Diaries,
p. 675
p. 109 ‘extremely frigid and dreary…’, 24 October 1944, DCD
p. 110 ‘left in disgust…’, 14 September 1944, DD
p. 112 ‘looking like an old concierge’, 21 March 1947, DCD
p. 112 ‘the vodka struggle’, 20 November 1945, LDCP-CR
p. 113 ‘The traffic…’, 7 November 1944, DCD
p. 113 ‘uneasy to conduct…’, Georges Bidault,
D’une Résistance à l’autre,
p. 72
p. 113 ‘In Bido Veritas’, 24 February 1945, DD
p. 114 ‘Claudel, Alexis Léger…’, Jacques Dumaine,
Quai d’Orsay, 1945–51,
pp. 2–3
p. 114 ‘was most indignant…’, 28 November 1944, DCD
p. 115 ‘a curious pair…’, Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time,
vol. ii, p. 217
p. 115 ‘in the happiest of humours’, 11 November 1944, DCD
p. 115 ‘for about two hours…’, 11 November 1944, DCD
p. 116 ‘Although his outward…’, RGASPI 17/128/14
p. 117 ‘Communist dressed up as a field marshal…’, Charles de Gaulle,
Mémoires de guerre,
vol. iii, p. 61
p. 117 ‘One never ceases to be Polish…’, Hervé Alphand,
L’Étonnement d’être,
p. 180
p. 118 ‘France must pay…’, ‘Foreign Relations of the United States of America, The Conferences at Cairo and Teheran’, pp. 484–5, quoted Jean Elleinstein,
Goliath contre Goliath,
p. 97
p. 118 ‘Don’t take my…’, de Gaulle,
Mémoires de guerre,
vol. iii, p. 56
p. 120 ‘How much is a pint?’, Lady Rothschild (Tess Mayor), conversation, 1 December 1992
p. 120 ‘Paris is lugubrious…’, Alphand,
L’Étonnement d’être,
p. 182
p. 121 ‘It suggested that de Gaulle…’, 4 January 1945, DCD
p. 121 ‘I felt my brain slowing down…’, Philippe Boegner (ed.),
Carnets du Pasteur Boegner,
p. 324
p. 121 ‘chased out the Germans…’, Ponomarev, RGASPI 17/128/748
p. 122 ‘The French authorities…’, NARA 751.00/5-1245
11. LIBERATORS AND LIBERATED
p. 124 ‘condemned to trade…’, Yves Farge,
Le Pain de la corruption,
p. 12
p. 124 ‘Anyone found in possession…’, NARA 851.04413/1-545
p. 125 ‘seize three…’, 27 July 1945, AN F/1 a/3249
p. 125 ‘I am told…’, Caffery, NARA 851.5017/1-2947
p. 125 ‘Lise’s main sport…’, Simone de Beauvoir,
La Force des choses,
p. 26
p. 125 ‘The hats in Paris…’, Corporal Bob Baldrige, letter, 7 March 1945
p. 125 ‘The easygoing manner…’, Beauvoir,
La Force des choses,
p. 13
p. 126 ‘ardent and often very enterprising’, NARA 711.51/3-945
p. 126 juvenile prostitution, Appendix E, SHAEF Mission, Progress Report of 16–31 May 1945
p. 127 ‘all the Generals at SHAEF…’, 3 May 1945, DCD
p. 127 ‘did not have a high opinion of Mr Caffery’, 3 October 1944, DD
p. 127 ‘full of American businessmen…’, 21 September 1944, DCD
p. 127 ‘It seems hardly believable’, 8 May 1945, DCD
p. 127 ‘a quiet and unostentatious…’, NARA 851.00/2-1445
p. 128 ‘the US is supplying inferior…’, US Embassy report, NARA 851.00/4-245
p. 128 ‘One couldn’t help thinking…’, 18 July 1945, DCD
p. 128 ‘They do not seem to be taking…’, SHAEF Mission to France, Progress Report No. 19,1–15 June 1945, NARA 851.00/6-2145
p. 129 ‘in a premeditated plan…’, François Billoux,
Quand nous étions ministres,
p. 39
p. 129 ‘it appears that they are American deserters…’, Jean Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal depuis la Libération,
p. 136
p. 129 ‘barbarians…’, Susan Mary Alsop,
To Marietta from Paris,
p. 53
p. 129 ‘increase in armed attacks’, 15 January 1946, AN F/1 a/3349
p. 130 ‘an army of drivers…’, Alfred Fabre-Luce,
Journal de la France,
p. 667
p. 130 ‘America symbolized…’, Beauvoir,
La Force des choses,
p. 28
12. WRITERS AND ARTISTS IN THE LINE OF FIRE
p. 131 ‘one could see…’, Alfred Fabre-Luce,
Journal de la France,
p. 653
p. 132 ‘the European position of France’, Robert Aron,
Histoire de Vichy,
p. 685
p. 132 ‘He failed with his death…’,
Franc-Tireur,
24 August 1944
p. 132 ‘The moral of the whole distressing story…’, letter to Victoria Ocampo, 2 April 1945, Grover Smith (ed.),
Letters of Aldous Huxley,
p. 518
p. 133 ‘Paris is beautiful…’, Robert Brasillach,
Journal d’un homme occupé,
vol. vi, p. 560
p. 134 ‘On the contrary…’, Baronne Élie de Rothschild, conversation, 30 October 1992
p. 134 ‘What is this government…’, Jean Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal depuis la Libération,
p. 16
p. 134 ‘I am the victim…’, Christian Gilles,
Arletty ou la liberté d’être,
p. 39
p. 134 ‘France has got what she deserves!’, quoted Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge,
Un Gentilhomme cosmopolite,
p. 183
p. 137 ‘a queue of the damned…’, Jacques Benoist-Méchin,
A l’Épreuve du temps,
p. 392
p. 137 ‘
anti-sémite
…’, 2 November 1944, NA-PRO FO 371/42013/Z 7349
p. 137 ‘I never set foot…’, Céline, Copenhagen, 6 November 1946, NARA 851.00/6-2847
p. 138 ‘
Paulhan le Juste
’, Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal depuis la Libération,
p. 38
p. 138 ‘The Nazis…’, Galtier-Boissière,
Mon Journal pendant l’Occupation,
p. 290
p. 138 ‘these “intellectuals” had provided…’, Pierre-Henri Teitgen,
Faites entrer le témoin suivant,
p. 248
p. 140 ‘We must separate ourselves from the Jews…’, quoted ibid., p. 250
p. 140 ‘with eloquence…’,
Combat,
20 January 1945
p. 141 ‘Personally, I regret…’, Gaston Palewski,
Mémoires d’action,
p. 225
p. 142 ‘Why did you resign?’, Celia Goodman (ed.),
Livingwith Koestler,
p. 60
p. 142 ‘the screen behind which…’, Philippe Boegner (ed.),
Carnets du Pasteur Boegner,
p. 316