Paris after the Liberation 1944-1949

H. Allen, 1951
    Wurmser, André,
Fidèlement vôtre: Soixante ans de vie politique et littéraire,
Paris: Grasset, 1979
    Ziegler, Philip,
King Edward VIII,
London: Collins, 1990

Photographic Acknowledgements
    Illustrations 4,5,6 and 13 are reproduced by permission of Roger-Viollet; numbers 1 and 2 by Robert Doisneau, permission of Rapho; and numbers 12 and 16 by Willy Ronis, permission of Rapho. Number 3 is reproduced by permission of the Brassaï estate; 8 by permission of the Horst estate; 9 by permission of Keystone; 10 by permission of the Christian Dior Archive © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 1994; 11 by permission of
Paris Match
; 17 by permission of the André Ostier estate; and 19 by permission of the Service des Musées©DACS 1994.
    We are extremely grateful to the late Mrs David Bruce for kindly lending illustration 18. The remainder come from the albums of Lady Diana Cooper and her family, and if any photographer or archive owns the copyright of any of them, they should contact the publisher.

* In the first opinion poll carried out since before the war, the Institut Français d’Opinion Publique found that per cent of its sample in Paris claimed to have been present that day. ‘
C’est un plébiscite
’ was a widespread comment.

* One of Palewski’s bodyguards remarked that he had ‘more nicknames than a boules club in Marseilles’. The bodyguards knew him as ‘
la Lavande
’ from the overpowering strength of his eau de toilette. In
Le Canard enchaîné
he was known as ‘Lodoiska’ – the nickname given to the censorship; politicians called him ‘
l’Empereur
’, while the female secretaries, of whom the vast majority had no doubt received his energetic attentions, referred to himironically as ‘
le beau Gaston
’.

* One could hardly blame Koestler for being pleased at such figures, especially since he had heard that ‘the French Communist Party had orders to buy up every single copy of
Le Zéro et l’infini
immediately’, so in this way he was being ‘enriched indefinitely from Communist Party funds’.

* Félix Gouin sued Farge for the allegations in his book
Le Pain de la corruption
, but lost the case in March 1948, a setback which finished off any lingering political ambitions.

* The newspaper
Combat
on 12 May, following ‘the night of the barricades’, warned that Paris would become ‘
Budapest-sur-Seine
’.