This portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author's celebrated "Letter from Paris," a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature "Genet." Edited by William Shawn; Index.
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This volume begins with the French elections of 1956 and concludes with a portrait of an aging, lonely President Charles de Gaulle. Flanner shows readers a Paris (and, from a Parisian perspective, a world) very much in flux-politically, socially, and artistically. Edited by William Shawn; Index.