Janet Tyler Flanner was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt". and published a single novel, "The Cubical City", set in New York City.
Inside the end of he war and the post war years when Paris again became the capital of nearly everything cool on the planet (before relapsing into its current stodginess.)