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.
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.