When Paris went dark : the city of light under German occupation, 1940-1944
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First edition. |
Little, Brown and Company,
New York, NY :
c2014.
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Describes life in Paris after June 1940, when the Nazis occupied France, juxtaposing the eerie sense of normalcy felt by many Parisians with the passion of the strong resistance movement that rose around Charles de Gaulle.
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- ISBN: 0316217441 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780316217446 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xxxii, 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.print
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, c2014.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographic notes and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Introduction. Faux Paris -- Sequestering Medusa -- Paris was different -- Chapter one: A nation disintegrates. Preludes -- Three traumas -- Chapter two: Waiting for Hitler. "They" arrive, and are surprised -- One who stayed, one who left -- "They" settle in -- Hitler's own tour -- The F er's urbanophobia -- Chapter three: Minuet (1940-1941). How do you occupy a city? -- For some, Paris was a bubble -- Dancing the minuet -- Correct, but still Nazis -- "To bed, to bed!" -- An execution in Paris -- Chapter four: City without a face- The occupier's lament. Paris had already welcomed the Nazis- before the occupation -- The occupiers are surprised, too -- A dreamer in exile -- Sexually occupied -- A "better" German -- Recollected solitude -- Chapter five: Narrowed Lives. Narrowing and boredom -- The apartment -- A crowded ̌Mtro -- The informer -- The queue -- Chapter six: The dilemmas of resistance. Quoi faire? -- Resistant Paris -- ̌B̌bs terroristes -- The red poster -- The female resistance -- Who got the credit? -- Chapter seven: the most narrowed lives- the hunt for Jews. Being Jewish in Paris -- Three girls on the move -- A gold star -- The big roundup -- Chapter eight: how much longer? (1942-1944). "You can come over now!" -- The plague -- Observers from the palace -- Signs of defeat -- Chapter nine: Liberation- a whodunit. Is Paris worth a detour? -- The Beast of Sevastopol arrives -- "Tous aux barricases!" -- Why do Americans smile so much? -- Whodunit? -- Chapter ten: angry aftermath- back on Paris time. Rediscovering purity -- "Kill all the bastards!" -- The return of lost souls - Chapter eleven: Is Paris still occupied?. De Gaulle creates a script -- Stumbling through memory -- Shouuld we blame Paris? -- "The landscape of our confusions."