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The Horror of Love

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by Lisa Hilton


  Ponty, Janine: Les Polonais en France (Du Rocher, Paris, 2008)

  Pugh, Martin: We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars (Random House, London, 2008)

  Rioux, Jean-Pierre: La France de la Quatrième République, 2 vols. (Seuil, Paris, 1980)

  Saumarez-Smith, John (ed.): The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952–73 (Frances Lincoln, London, 2004)

  Smith, Colin: England’s Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940–1942 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2009)

  Spears, Edward: Assignment to Catastrophe, 2 vols. (Heinemann, London, 1954)

  Taylor, D.J.: Bright Young People (Vintage, London, 2008)

  Thompson, Laura: Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford (Review, London, 2003)

  Tombs, Isabelle and Robert: That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France, the History of a Love-Hate Relationship (Pimlico, London, 2007)

  Ziegler, Philip: Diana Cooper (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1981)

  Articles

  Published by the Institut Charles de Gaulle, Paris:

  André-Brunet, Adolphe: ‘A la société des amis de Marcel Proust’

  André-Gillois, Maurice: ‘Enfance et adolescence’

  Brouillet, René: ‘Rue Saint-Dominique 25 août 1944–21 janvier 1946’

  Burin des Rosiers, Etienne: ‘Ambassadeur à Rome’

  Burrus, Manuel: ‘L’association France-Italie’

  Charles-Roux, François: ‘A Londres en 1942 et 1943’

  Chatenet, Pierre: ‘Président du Conseil constitutionnel (1964–1974)’

  Curien, Gilles: ‘Un grand ministre de la recherche’

  Debré, Michel: ‘Au cabinet de Paul Reynaud’

  Decaris, Albert: ‘A 1’académie des Beaux-Arts’

  De Courcel, Geoffrey: ‘Gaston Palewski et le général de Gaulle’

  Druon, Maurice: ‘Du côté de chez Gaston’

  Durosoy, Maurice: ‘Avec Lyautey au Maroc en 1925’

  Fornari, Giovanni: ‘Le dernier des Stendhaliens’

  Fouquer, R.P.: ‘Mission en Ethiopie’

  Frey, Roger: ‘Un militant’

  Gaussen, Gérard: ‘Au comité français pour la sauvegarde de Venise’

  Giron, Charles: ‘A l’association des amis de René Capitant’

  Guillaumat, Pierre: ‘Une action décisive en matière nucleaire (1955)’

  Horbette, Jean-Louis: ‘Rue Royale 1962–1965’

  King, Harold: ‘Un homme d’une loyauté totale’

  Lefranc, Pierre: ‘La bataille des tribunes 1947–1951’

  Lelong, Pierre: ‘Ministre d’état, chargé dé la recherche scientifique et des questions atomiques et spatiales’

  Offroy, Raymond: ‘A Alger 1943–44’

  Palewski, Dominique: ‘Oncle Gaston’

  Polaillon-Kerven, Gisèle: ‘Un proche de Eugène Delacroix’

  Rosenberg, Pierre: ‘Au conseil des musées de France’

  Zimmer, Paul: ‘A la Fondation Lyautey’

  Viansson-Ponte, Pierre: ‘Gaston Palewski ou le gaullisme prehistorique’ in Après de Gaulle, qui?, ed. Le Seuil, 1968

  Yverneau-Glaser, Elisabeth: ‘Gaston Palewski, acteur et temoin d’un demi-siècle de vie politique française 1924–1974’, unpublished doctoral thesis (supervisor: Maurice Vaisse), Centre d’histoire de Sciences Politiques

  ‘Memoirs of the late Princesse Edmond de Polignac’, Horizon No. 68 (August 1945)

  INDEX

  Abrami, Mme, 231

  Abyssinia see Ethiopia

  Acton, Sir Harold, 34, 132–3, 186, 245

  Addis Ababa GP in, 3, 125

  Africa French colonies rally to de Gaulle, 116–17

  Alan, Bill, 96

  Allary Jean, 217

  Alexander VI, Pope, 216

  Algeria French administration, 137–8, state of emergency (1955), 213

  Algiers GP in, 137, 146

  Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMGOT), 127, 149

  Alsop, Susan Mary (earlier Patten), 200–3, 226, To Marietta from Paris, 201

  Amis, (Sir) Kingsley, 196

  Anderson, Marion, 148

  Anfa, near Casablanca, 137

  Arenberg, Gabrielle, 235

  Argenlieu, Admiral Georges Thierry d’, 146

  Arletty, 163, 165

  Arnold, General Henry Harley (‘Hap’), 147

  Arnold, Matthew, 225

  Asquith, Elizabeth (later Bibesco), 68

  Asthall Manor, Cotswolds, 27

  Astier de la Vigier, Emmanuel d’, 257

  Austen, Jane, 5, Pride and Prejudice, 44

  Austria Germany annexes, 77

  Balmain, Pierre, 186

  Balzac, Honoré de Comédie Humaine, 13

  Bardot, Brigitte, 244

  Batsford Park, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, 25, 27

  Bauer, Gerard, 242

  Baumel, Jacques, 173

  Beaton, Sir Cecil, 34, 84–5, 123, 132, 183, 193

  Beauvau-Craon, Marc de, 243

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 151

  Beecham, Sir Thomas, 84

  Beit, Clementine, Lady (née Mitford, NM’s cousin), 84

  Bell, Clive Civilization, 224–5, 227, 230, 243

  Berard, Christian (‘Bébé’), 183, 185, 190

  Berenson, Bernard, 236, 242

  Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron, 37, 62, 85, 132

  Bessborough, Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of, 120–1

  Bestegui, Carlos de, 190, 257

  Betjeman, Sir John, 34

  Bevin, Ernest, 144

  Bibesco, Prince Antoine, 68–70, 199

  Bibesco, Pnncesse Marthe, 69

  Bidault, Georges, 150, 151

  Birkett, Norman (later 1st Baron), 98

  Blanche, Jacques-Emile, 31, 69

  Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 18

  Blomfield Road, Maida Vale, 1, 79, 128

  Blum, Leon, 69, 77, 167

  Boislambert, Claude Hettier de, 146

  Boothby, Robert (later Baron), 183

  Boris, Georges, 122–3

  Bourbon-Parme, Pnncesse de, 179

  Bourdet, Edouard, 183

  Boutmy, Emile, 16

  Bowen, Elizabeth, 219

  Bowles, Dorothy (NM’s Aunt Weenie), 21

  Bowles, George (NM’s uncle), 23

  Bowles, Thomas (‘Tap’, Nancy’s maternal grandfather), 21–2

  Bradley, General Omar, 150

  Brando, Marlon, 243–4

  Brandolini, Cristiana, 27

  Bref (journal), 170

  Bremond, Henri, 70

  Bremond, Yvonne de, 234

  Brighton College, 14, 16

  Bnssac, Due de, 172

  Bnssac, Duchesse de, 178

  Bnssac, Pierre de, 177

  British Union of Fascists (BUF), 44, 61, 63, 65, 96–7

  Brooks, Mel The Producers (comedy), 66

  Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, The, 62

  Bulletin Quotidien, 71

  Bullitt, William, 150

  Byron, Robert, 34, 41, 63, 83

  Cable Street march and riots (1936), 96

  Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 144

  Caetam, Cora, 234

  Caetam, Marguerite, 234

  Caffery, Jefferson, 172–3

  Campbell, Ronald, 106–7

  Capote, Truman Answered Prayers, 200

  Casablanca Conference (1943), 137

  Cassin, René, 257

  Castellane, Bom de, 70, 163, 200, 251

  Castellane, Comte Jean de, 163

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 239

  Chamberlain, Neville, 104

  Chambre, Guy la, 100

  Chanel, Coco (Gabnelle), 163

  Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’), 92, 121, 190, 199

  Chantilly, 192

  Chartens, Ann (Viscountess Rothermere, later Fleming), 204–5, 247

  Chautemps, Camille, 114–15

  Chenu, Marie-Dominique, 231


  Chevalier, Maurice, 177

  Choltitz, General Dietrich von, 149–50

  Churchill, Clementine, Lady (née Hozier), 203

  Churchill, Randolph, 166, 230

  Churchill, (Sir) Winston GP arranges victory lunch for, 18, and Rumbold’s views on Nazism, 63, on de Gaulle, 73, 104, first receives de Gaulle, 102, meets French government (June 1940), 103, considers British union with France, 105, and de Gaulle’s move to London, 107–8, urges Pétain to continue to resist, 108, speech to Commons (June 1940), 109, authorizes destruction of French fleet, 112, meets GP on arrival in London, 114–15, defends de Gaulle’s actions at Dakar, 116, and administration of Algeria, 137, informs de Gaulle of invasion date, 143, quarrel with de Gaulle over invasion plans, 144–6, fails to invite de Gaulle to visit Normandy front, 145, visits Pans on way to holiday (1945), 170, supports European union, 211

  Cicogna, Anna-Maria, 241–2

  Clark, Kenneth (later Baron), 63

  Clemenceau, Georges, 170

  Cocteau, Jean, 164, 177, 183, 185, 252

  Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, 246–8

  Colefax, Sibyl, Lady, 84, 136

  Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, 161, 256

  Colonna, Prince de, 232

  Combattante (French ship), 146

  Comité de Vigilance des Intellectuels Annfascistes, Paris, 63

  Common Market see European Union

  Communists in French elections (1945), 167, 169–70, denied office by de Gaulle, 171, French opposition to, 173–4, oppose RPF, 210, and worker priests, 231

  Connolly, Cyril homosexual experiences, 36, patronizes Heywood Hill, 132, on NM’s sexual limitations, 136, portrayed in The Blessing, 136, 154, edits Horizon, 252

  Constitutional Council GP appointed president, 240, 249, 256–7

  Cooper, Artemis and Antony Beevor, 150

  Cooper, Lady Diana (née Manners) lunches wih Churchill in Paris, 10, meets GP in London, 138–9, and GP’s relations with NM in Paris, 156, as ambassadress in Paris, 176–7, 179, 182–4, friendship with NM, 176, and husband’s affairs, 179, 201, 204–5, leaves Embassy (1947), 190, and GP’s appointment to Rome, 215–16, portrayed in Don’t Tell Alfred, 224

  Cooper, Duff (later 1st Viscount Norwich) authorizes de Gaulle’s broadcast speech from London, 108, in North Africa, 138, relations with GP, 139, 180–1, affair with Daisy Fellowes, 163, on de Gaulle’s political style, 167, lunches with Churchill in Palis, 170, as ambassador in Paris, 176–9, friendship with NM, 176, on Pucheu’s execution, 177, affair with Louise de Vilmorin, 178–81, leaves Embassy, 190, visits brothels, 197, affair with Susan Mary Alsop, 201, womanizing, 204–5, writes life of Talleyrand, 251, death, 257

  Costa de Beauregard, Comtesse, 192, 216, 244

  Couture, Jean la, 112

  Couve de Murville, Maurice, 247

  Coward, (Sir) Noel, 134, 183–4

  Cresson, Edith, 2

  Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton CreweMilnes, Marquess of, 175

  Croisset, Ethel de (née Woodward), 199–200, 235

  Croisset, François de, 199

  Croisset, Philippe de, 199

  Crowell, Ann, 199–200

  Crussol, Marquise de, 78

  Cullen Castle, Scotland, 35, 38

  Cunard, Emerald (Maud Alice), Lady, 84–5, 123, 204, 220

  Cunard, Sir Victor, 215–16

  Cunningham, Admiral Andrew (later Viscount), 116

  Curzon, Baba see Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra

  Curzon, Cynthia see Mosley, Cynthia, Lady

  Czechoslovakia Nazis occupy, 89, 96

  Daily Herald, 63

  Dakar de Gaulle’s failed attempt on, 115–17

  Daladier, Édouard, 77–8

  Darlan, Admiral Jean François, 111-12

  Dashwood, Helen, Lady, 83, 131

  Debré, Michel, 238, 240

  Dejean, Maurice, 125

  Democratic Alliance, 71, 109

  Desplats-Pilter, Roy André (‘André Roy’), 131–2, 135

  Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, IIth Duke of marriage to Deborah, 93

  Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of (née Mitford, NM’s sister) on GP’s knowledge of nursery rhymes, 18, birth, 25, 28, on Nancy as debutante, 32, on Nancy’s unawareness of St Clair Erskine’s homosexuality, 37, interior decorating, 57, suffers stillbirth, 82, at outbreak of war, 89, brings back Unity from Switzerland, 90, marriage, 93, interest in fashion, 187, on Palazzo Farnese staircase, 216, visits GP in Rome, 220, and GP’s marriage to Violette, 253–4, visits NM during final illness, 255

  Diamant-Berger, Dr Marcel (GP’s cousin), 48, 70, 75, death, 113

  Diamant-Berger, Yvan-Joseph (GP’s maternal grandfather), II

  Dicks, Laura (‘Nanny Blor’), 23

  Dill, General Sir John, 103

  Dior, Christian, 185, 187–8

  Djibouti, 125–7

  Dorchester Hotel, London (the ‘Dorch’), 133

  Dreyfus, Alfred, II

  Driberg, Tom (later Baron Bradwell), 34

  Dronne, Captain Raymond, 150

  Druon, Maurice, 17

  du Deffand, Marie de Vichy de Chamrond, Marquise, 161

  Duclos, Jacques, 171

  Dumaine, Jacques, 190

  Dunkirk evacuation (1940), 119–20

  Dunn, Kit, 45

  Dunne, Dominick The Two Mrs Grenvilles, 200

  Eaton Terrace, London, 133

  Eckersley, Peter and Dorothy, 96

  Eden, Anthony (later Ist Earl of Avon), 81, 103, 145–6

  18B see Regulation 18B

  Eisenhower, Dwight D, 144, 149

  Eliot, TS, 40, 223

  Elizabeth II, Queen, 202

  El Khattabi, Abdelkrim, 49

  Elwes, Simon, 79

  Erlanger, Leo d’, 123–4

  Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 76, 125–6, see also Addis Ababa

  European Coal and Steel Community (ECST), 212

  European Union proposed, 211–12, and Treaty of Rome (1956), 217, GP supports, 218

  Fabre-Luce, Alfred, 178

  Fabre-Luce, Charlotte, 178

  Fakrin, Prince Ahmed, 201

  Farnese, Giulia, 216

  Fascism Mitford family views on, 59, 88–9, in Wigs on the Green, 60–2, 65–7, 94–5, opposition to, 63–6, NM condemns, 81, 87, and Munich Agreement, 85

  Faucigny-Lucinge Jean-Louis de, 178

  Fellowes, Emmeline, 163

  Fellowes, Marguerite (‘Daisy’, née Decazes, then de Broglie), 159, 163, 201, 205

  Févner, Jacques, 183

  Fleming, Ann see Charteris, Ann

  FNL see National Liberation Front of Algeria

  Fontaine-les-Nonnes, 192, 216, 229, 245

  Forbes, Alistair, 135–6

  Forbes-Adam, Virginia, 196–7

  Fouchet, Marcel, 68

  France and war threat, 76–8, and Spanish Republican refugees, 86–7, falls to Germans (1940), 94–5, refugees from German advance, 103, navy attacked by British at Mers el-Kebir, 112, Vichy regime recognized by USA, 117, British view of after fall, 119–20, refugees in Britain, 119–21, British relations with Vichy, 121, repatriation of servicemen in Britain, 121, and administration of North Africa, 137–8, recognition of post-liberation provisional government, 146, épuration (post-war purging of collaborators), 162–4, 167, conditions and shortages after liberation, 165–6, elections (October 1945), 166–9, nuclear tests, 239, constitution, 240–1, presidential election (1969), 257

  France-Italy Association, 242

  Francis Holland school, Belgravia, 24

  François, Colonel, 105, 107

  Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, 256

  Free French de Gaulle heads, 115, 121, African colonies rally to, 116–17, GP appointed director of political affairs, 116–17, British support for, 121, low recruitment figures, 121, discounted in Normandy invasion plans, 144

  Freeman-Mitford, Clement (NM’s uncle) killed, 24–5

  French Welfare, Department of (British), 120–1

  Friese-Green, Molly, 132


  Funck-Brentano, Christian, III

  Gaillard, Felix, 213

  Galtier-Boisière, Jean, 149

  Gardner, Evelyn (Mrs Evelyn Waugh), 42

  Gascoigne, Alvary Douglas (Trench-Gascoigne), 114

  Gaulle, Charles de attempted escape with Marcel Diamant-Berger, 48, GP meets, 73, 75–6, qualities and character, 73–4, Roosevelt’s relations with, 73, 117, 121, marriage and children, 74, wartime actions and defiance, 74–5, and pre-war defence policy, 77, joins government (June 1940), 101, 103, and collapse of France, 102–3, first meets Churchill, 102, encounter with Pétain, 103, meets British delegation at Tours (June 1940), 103–4, mission to London, 104–5, GP allies with, 106, on GP’s prescience, 106, leaves France for London, 107–8, returns to Bordeaux and resigns from government, 107, broadcast speech to French people from London, 108–10, learns of British destruction of French fleet, 113, British wariness of, 115, forms and heads Free French, 115, 121, sails for Dakar, 115–16, appoints GP director of political affairs, 116–17, resentment of USA, 117–18, visits French refugee camps in Britain, 119, manner and self-belief, 121–2, 151, life in London, 123, appoints DG director of Cabinet, 127–8, and French position in East Africa, 127, in Algiers, 137–8, told of plans for Normandy invasion, 143–5, quarrel with Churchill over invasion plans, 144–5, not invited by Churchill to visit Normandy front, 145, recognized by Allied governments-in-exile, 145, meets Roosevelt in USA, 146–8, returns to France (1944), 146, enters liberated Pans, 150–2, confirms GP as Cabinet director in France, 160, Paris headquarters, 160, residence, 161, on épuration, 164, Communist support for, 167, and elections (1945), 167–9, popular French attitude to, 167–8, relations with GP, 168–9, denies office to Communists, 170–1, retained as prime minister (1945), 170, resigns, 172, and formation of RPF, 173, post-war relations with British, 181, visits brothels, 197, political tours, 210, supports European community, 211, loses seat in 1956 election, 214, returns as president of France (1958), 214, 232, recommends GP for EU post, 215, politics of grandeur, 230, Italian wariness of, 232, state visit to Italy (1959), 233, asks Pompidou to form government, 238, stands in presidential election (1965), 240, and student protests (1968), 246–7, 249, resigns and retires to Colombey (1969), 256–7, death, 257, Mémoires, 102, 109

  Gaulle, Henri and Jeanne de (Charles’s parents), 74

  Gaulle, Yvonne de (née Vendroux, Charles’s wife), 74, 76, 107, 139, 161, 169, 249, 254

  Gensoul, Admiral Marcel-Bruno, 112–13

  Germany as threat, 76, annexes Austria, 77, advance in western Europe, 101, 103

  Girard, Lieut Henri, 126

 

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