*Marcel Ophuls, in his film The Sorrow and the Pity, shows pictures of the exhibition that always haunted me, even before I knew that it was at 21 rue La Boétie that the show had been conceived.
*Translator’s note: Bagatelles pour un massacre and L’École des cadavres were two rabidly anti-Semitic pamphlets written by the respected novelist.
*The period from September 3, 1939, to May 10, 1940, after Britain and France had declared war on Germany but before any Western power had mobilized land forces against the German Reich.
*Historian, founder with Lucien Febvre of the Annales School, and author of one of the finest books about the end of the Third Republic, L’Étrange défaite.
*At first, Roosevelt’s isolationist America wanted to maintain good relations with the Vichy government and was therefore reluctant to welcome refugees with open arms.
*A formula applied to works of art recovered from the Nazis and kept in the national museums while their owners were not yet identified.
*A French painter contemporary with Braque and Gris, whose first exhibition was held at the Rosenberg Gallery in 1921.
*One day when Salvador Dalí politely approached Paul in a restaurant to ask him to represent him, Paul’s reply was harsh, crude, and lacking in vision: “Monsieur, my gallery is a serious institution, not made for clowns.”
*Translator’s note: The Algiers Putsch, which led to General de Gaulle’s return to power.
*General de Gaulle conducted a very personal and independent foreign policy, which was not always in line with the American one, especially when he removed France from NATO.
*An exhibition of do-it-yourself inventions, where the most original or useful thing gets an award.
*Now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
*The regime that was in effect from the end of World War II through its collapse in 1958, when de Gaulle established the Fifth Republic.
*Ninety-three, in 2014.
*Pierre Laval (1883–1945) served as prime minister of France from 1931 to 1932, as vice president of Vichy’s Council of Ministers in 1940, and as head of government from 1942 to 1944. Convicted of high treason, he was executed in 1945.
*For the Institute for the Study of Jewish Questions, see the chapter “Number 21 Under the Germans” (p. 27).
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