Green, Nancy L.

The Other Americans in Paris Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (337 pages)

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction; 1. The Not So Lost Generation: The "American Colony"; 2. Uses of Citizenship: Tales from the Consulate, or How Mrs. Baker Got Her Hat Back; 3. For Love or Money: Marriage and Divorce in the French Capital; 4. Americans at Work: Of Grocers, Fashion Writers, Dentists, and Lawyers; 5. Doing Business in France: The Formal and the Informal; 6. Down and Out in Paris: The Tailed, the Arrested, and the Poor; 7. French Connections, Reciprocal Visions: Love, Hate, Awe, Disdain; 8. Heading Home: War, Again; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers' representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who.



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Americans--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Americans--History--France--Paris--20th century.


Electronic Books.

DC34 / .O844 2014