The Parisians And The Germans
January, 1966
an existentialist's view of the tormented confrontation and conflict of two inimical cultural end products--the gallic and the gothic--in the crucible of wartime occupationWhen the English and Americans liberated Paris, many of them were surprised to find us Parisians less thin than they had expected. They saw Frenchwomen wearing elegant dresses that seemed new, and men in sports jackets which, from a distance, still looked good. Only rarely did they encounter that pallor of the face, that physi...
