Baker, Josephine, 60
Bakst, Léon, 43
Ballets Russes, 16, 43
Bank of France, 18
Barjansky, Catherine, 45
Barton, Raymond “Tubby,” 126
Bastille Day riots of 1944, 89, 96, 98
Bathiat, Léonie. See Arletty
BBC, 144
Beach, Sylvia, 69, 154–55
Beaumont, Count de, 42, 168
Beaumont, Countess de, 42, 168
Beauvoir, Simone de, xix, 145, 149–50
Bedaux, Charles, 56, 218
Bedaux, Fern, 56, 218
Belgium, 10, 15, 228, 237
Belle Époque, 27, 32, 36
Bergen-Belsen, 209
Bergman, Ingrid, xvii, xviii, xxii, 210–12, 214
Bergson, Henri, 23
Bernhardt, Sarah, xiv, xx, 28, 36, 38, 233
Betts, Edward C., 212
Bienvenue au Soldat, 54, 60
black market, 42, 63, 108, 190, 212, 214
Bogart, Humphrey, xxii, 210
Boineburg Lengsfeld, Baron Hans von, 116
Bonnard, Abel, 170
Bradley, Omar, 120, 121–22, 144
Braque, Georges, 168, 172
Brasillach, Robert, 83, 169–70
Breker, Arno,” xvi, 167–71
Breker, Demetra, xvi, 167, 169, 171
Bretty, Béatrice, 12–13, 76, 82, 84
Brinon, Fernand de, 170, 187
Britain (United Kingdom). See also Allies; London
European Union and, 228, 237
British intelligence (MI-6), 56, 93–94, 187–91, 198
British Royal Air Force, 70, 91
British troops, 140–41
British Union of Fascists, 225
Bruce, David, 129, 132, 135, 140, 146
Buchenwald, 82, 117, 208
Café de la Paix, 136, 137, 140
Café Voisin, 77
Canadian Royal Air Force, 96–97
Canaris, Wilhelm, xvi, 56, 78, 187–89, 191
British double agents and, 94, 189
disappearance of, 95
Capa, Robert, xvii, xviii, xxii, 74, 123
affair with Ingrid Bergman and, 210–14
D-Day and, 71–73, 153
death of, 230
Ernest Hemingway’s race to liberate Ritz and, 124–35, 143–44, 147–49
London party of, before D-Day, 63–65, 67–68
Martha Gellhorn and, 125, 207, 214–15
post-liberation Paris and, 154, 161, 175–77, 180
Carné, Marcel, 76, 79
Cartier firm, 58
Casablanca (film), xxii, 210
Casati, Luisa, Marquise, xx–xxi, 39, 43–46
Castiglioni, Virginia Oldoini Verasis, Countess di, 30–31
Cecil, Rupert, 198
Cézanne, Paul, 168, 172
Chambrun, Josée Laval, Countess de, xxi–xxii, 19, 79, 81, 90, 178–79
Chambrun, René, Count de, 75, 90
Chanel, Coco, xv, xvi, xvii, xix, xxi, xxii, 2, 168, 175
affair with Hans Günther von Dincklage and, 78, 185–89, 192
affair with Vera Lombardi and, 189
air raids and, 79
Berlin trips of, 95, 187
Blanche Auzello and, 90
collaboration suspected of, 179, 184–92
German advance on Paris and, 11–13, 19
Jews and, 90, 165, 179
liberation and, 158
postwar Ritz and, 225, 231
prewar Ritz and, 44, 53, 69
Windsors and, 225
Chanel No. 5, 57, 179, 190, 202
Chavannes, Pierre André, 95
Chicago Daily News, 152, 153, 160
Choltitz, Dietrich von, xv–xvi, 115–19, 122, 135, 140
Churchill, Clementine, 205–6
Churchill, Randolph, 188
Churchill, Winston, xvi, 55, 180, 195
atomic bomb and, 204
Charles de Gaulle and, 80, 83, 121, 144
Coco Chanel and, 11, 188–89, 191
Georges Mandell and, 9–10, 13, 82–83
Windsors and, 188, 219, 221
U-boats and, 65
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 58–59, 163, 221
Cocteau, Jean, xvi, xvii, xix, 12, 39, 233
collaboration suspected of, 179, 183–84, 188
collaborators and Breker circle and, 144–45, 169–70
liberation of Paris and, 144–45, 156, 160–61, 176–77
Max Jacob’s deportation and, 165–66
occupation and, 110–11
Paul Rosenberg and, 167–68
Princess Soutzo party with Proust and, 40–41, 43, 46–48
Cold War, 4–5, 204, 215, 237
collaborators, 5
Arletty as “horizontal,” xx, 79, 83–86, 182–83, 196
Coco Chanel as “horizontal,” 184–93
Dreyfus Affair and, 204
head shaving or épuration sauvage of “horizontal,” 144–45, 179–83
Jean Cocteau and, 144–45
legal purges and, 181–84, 196
resistance strikes vs., 117
Ritz socialites and, 166–67
Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval convicted as, 213
Collier’s, 65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 74, 128, 154, 208
Colville, Jock, 180
Combat (newspaper), 145
Compagnie Intercommerciale, 94
concentration camps, 82, 117, 166–67, 206–9. See also specific camps
Constantini, Pierre, 94
Corrigan, James, 52
Corrigan, Laura Mae Whitrock, xx, 49, 51–60, 155, 233, 236
Courcy, Kenneth de, 220–21
Cousteau, Pierre-Antoine, 83
couture houses, 12–13, 47, 95, 157–59, 178–79
Coward, Noël, 79
Creative Evolution (Bergson), 23
Curie, Marie, 201
Dabescat, Olivier (maître d’hôtel), xiv, 31, 35, 40, 42, 44–45, 48, 218
Dachau, 208–9
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 36, 44
Darnand, Joseph, 80
Darrieux, Danielle, 199
D-Day, 70–74, 77, 79-80, 89, 91–92. See also Normandy campaign
Degas, Edgar, 29
Denmark, 237
Depression, 52
Derain, André, 170–71
Diaghilev, Serge, 12, 16–17, 43, 168
Didion, Joan, 1
Dietrich, Marlene, xvii, xviii, xxi, 205
affair with James Gavin and, 209, 214
affair with Joseph Kennedy and, 55
Ernest Hemingway and, 199–200
Lee Miller photos of, 178
Martha Gellhorn and, 199–200, 206–7, 209–10, 214
postwar life of, 225, 231, 233
search for mother and, 209, 214
Dincklage, Baron Hans Günther von “Spatzy,” xv, xxi, 78, 185–92
Dodd, Thomas S., 212, 227
Donahue, Jimmy, 222–24
Dongen, Kees van, 170
Doudeauville, Duke de, 54
Drancy transit camp, 108, 165, 172, 183
Dreyfus, Alfred
charged with treason, 27
second inquiry and, 27, 29
Dreyfus Affair and Dreyfusards, 23, 26–32, 36–38, 41–42, 83, 166, 225–26
Dronne, Raymond, 122
Dubonnet, Anne, 13, 19
Dubonnet, George, 178–79
Dubonnet, Jean, 19
Dubonnet, Paul, 19
Du Pont laboratories, 203
Eiffel Tower, 15, 47, 135, 146, 234
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 119
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), 107, 172–73
Eldridge, Mona, 223
Elizabeth, Queen Mother of England, 217
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 220–21, 224
Elminger, Hans Franz, xiii
eve of occupation and, 10–11, 14–15
German arrival and, 16, 20, 55
German looting and
, 105–7
Göring and, 57
Hemingway and, 140, 142, 158–59
refugees hidden by, 108–9
Ritz finances and, 18
wines hidden by, 147
Elminger, Lucienne, xiii, 108, 141–43, 191
Enfants du paradis, Les (film), 79
Escoffier, Auguste, xiv, xx, 233
affair with Sarah Bernhardt, 28, 35
dining modernized by, 33–35, 230
Esterházy, Prince, 29, 218
European Coal and Steel Community, 218
European Economic Community (ECC), 178, 228, 237
European Union (EU), 3, 228
Fayed, Mohamed Al, 236
Fellowes, Daisy Glücksbierg, 55–56
Figaro, Le (newspaper), 26
Final Solution, 166–67, 181
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, xix, 12, 49, 52, 62, 69, 233
Flanner, Janet, 53
Folies Bergère, 35
France
atomic bomb and, 228
colonies of, 228
Nazi invasion of, 8
postwar elections and, 213–15
postwar Europe and, 121, 218, 237
France, Anatole, 28
France Zone Handbook No. 16, Part III (Allied pamphlet), 176
Franco-German “roundtable” lunches, 3, 178, 237
Free French Forces, xxi, 119, 153, 168, 184
Free French government-in-exile, xvi, 13
French Forces of the Interior (Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur, FFI), 108, 117, 164, 182, 190
French Gestapo. See Milice
French government. See also Free French government-in-exile; Vichy France
Dreyfus Affair and, 26–27, 29
flees to Bordeaux, 10, 13–14
French Ministry of Justice, 30, 109
French national railway (SNCF), 10, 164–65
French resistance, 20, 88–94, 104, 108–14. See also Maquis
Arletty attempt to hide and, 182–83
Auzellos and, 87–96, 109–14
burning of Paris and, 118–19
Charles de Gaulle and, 206
Frank Meier and, 87–91, 93–96, 102, 108, 110
gray area and, 5
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie and, 201–2
Jean-Paul Sartre and, 145
last deportations and, 164–65
memories of, in modern France, 4
murder of Georges Mandel as warning to, 81
post-liberation purges and, 180
size of, in France, 80
SNCF workers and, 164–65
torture of, 110–11
French Second Armored Division, 131, 133, 135–36, 153, 164
French soldiers, Corrigan charity for, 60
Fresnes prison camp, 183
Freud, Sigmund, 46
Gauguin, Paul, 168, 172
Gaulle, Charles de, xvi, xxi, 77, 168
Anglo-American Allies vs., 80, 83, 120–21, 178, 205–6, 212, 214–15, 226, 228, 230, 237
elected president of France, 214–15
enters Paris on liberation, 143–44
German invasion and, 7–8, 14, 50
Laura Mae Corrigan and, 60
liberation parade and, 153, 159–61
May 1968 and, 229
Paul Morand and, 184
Philippe Pétain sentence and, 213
postwar Europe and, 214–15, 228, 236–37
resignation of, 228
V-J Day and, 212
Winston Churchill and, 13, 80, 83
Gaullist party, 77
Gavin, James, xviii, 200, 207, 209, 213–14
Gellhorn, Martha “Marty,” xvii, xviii, xxi
affair with James Gavin and, 200, 207, 209, 213–14
concentration camps and, 207–9, 212
D-Day and, 70–74, 124, 153
divorces Hemingway, 209–10
Marlene Dietrich and, 199–200, 206–7, 209–10, 214
marriage to Ernest Hemingway and, 65–70, 74, 124, 125, 196, 199
postwar Germany and, 213–14
race to liberate Ritz and, 124, 148–49
Robert Capa and, 125
V-E Day and, 209
Gentner, Wolfgang, 202
George VI, King of England, 219–21, 224
Gestapo, xviii, 79, 88–89, 99, 202
Blanche Auzello arrested by, 91–93, 109–13
end of occupation and, 117, 165
plot to kill Hitler and, 101, 196
German Möbel-Aktion “Operation Furniture,” 172
German resistance, 78, 87–102, 116, 187–88
arrest of SD and SS by, 96–100
seek separate peace, 189–90
plot to kill Hitler and Göring, 88–89, 94–102, 189–90
German submarines (U-boats), 65–66
Germany
postwar, 206, 215, 218, 228
unified post-communist, 237
Weimar Republic, 50
World War I and, 40, 43, 45–47
Germany, Nazi, xv–xvi, 3. See also specific events; individuals; and military and governmental units
Aryanized French culture and, 167–68
D-Day landings and, 91–92
entry to Paris of, June 14, 1940, 7, 8–21
evacuation of Paris by, on advance of Allies, 20–21, 81–82, 85, 119–22, 140
final tourism in Paris with Allied advance, 104–5
invasion of France by, 7–8, 56
last shots vs. liberators in Paris, 160–61
looting of art and luxury goods by, 105–7, 113–14, 164–65, 171–73
nuclear physicists, 197, 201
nuclear weapons research and, 201
officers arrival at Ritz and, 16–17
resistance attacks of officers and, 170–71
surrender of, in Europe, 209
surrender of, in Paris, 143–44, 146
Gibson, Hugh, 15
Gilling, Ted, 143
Goebbels, Joseph, 17
Gorer, Dr. Peter, 63–64
Göring, Hermann, xv, 233, 236
art and luxury goods and, 56–59, 105–6, 163, 169, 171
Adolf Hitler and, 105
Claude Auzello’s nickname for, 93
morphine and, 50–51, 58
nuclear weapons and, 201
Nuremberg trials and, 212
plot to assassinate, 88, 91, 94, 96, 98–99, 189
Ritz suite of, 18–19, 50–51, 54
Sacha Guitry and, 182
suicide of, 230
Windsors and, 219
World War I and, 47
Goudsmit, Samuel, 198–99, 202, 204
Gould, Florence Jay, 55, 169
Grant, Bruce, 130
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 52
Greece, 237
Greep (Jewish forger), 91
Greffulhe, Countess de, 28
Grey, Lady de, 29, 34–35
Groves, Leslie, 198
Grüger, Dr. Franz, 94
Guerlain perfume, 57
Guitry, Sacha, xix, xxii, 11, 29, 77, 81, 85–86, 165, 168, 170, 179, 233
arrest of, 181–82, 196
Gulbenkian, Calouste, 35
Haag, Inga, 55–56, 94–95
Haberstock, Karl, 106–7, 171
Happy Honey Annie cocktail, 95
Hapsburg, Otto von, 15
Hemingway, Ernest “Papa,” xiv, xvii, xviii, xix, xxi, 9, 12, 13, 61, 168, 233
affair with Mary Welsh and, 64–65, 67–68, 124, 149–50, 152, 158–59, 161–62, 196, 198–200, 211
affair with Simone de Beauvoir and, 150
Blanche Auzello and, 70
Charley Ritz and, 69–70
D-Day and, 70–71, 74
divorces Gellhorn, 209–10
Helen Kirkpatrick and, 153–54
in London on eve of D-Day, 62–68
marriage to Martha Gellhorn and, 65–69, 74, 124–25, 196, 199–200
race to liberate Ritz and, 123, 124–33, 135–37, 139–4
3, 145–53, 160
Ritz bar and, pre–World War II, 68–69
Robert Capa and, 125–28, 231
suicide of, 231
Sylvia Beach and, 154–55
Hemingway, Mary. See Welsh, Mary
Heydrich, Reinhard, 166, 169
Himmler, Heinrich, 88, 100
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 211
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, 196, 211
Hitler, Adolf, xv
art and, 106, 168–69, 171
atomic bomb and, 193, 197
Corrigan goods and, 59
D-Day and, 70
failure of war and, 105
orders burning of Paris, xvi, 117–19, 122
plot to assassinate, xv, 20, 88–89, 91, 94–100, 104, 116, 188–89, 229
rise to power of, 50, 153
Ritz kept open by, 18
tours Paris, 16–17, 89
Windsors and, 56, 219, 225
Ho Chi Minh, 228
Hofacker, Caesar von, xv, 88, 96–101, 189
Hôtel Crillon, 17, 160
Hôtel du Nord (film), 76
Hôtel Georges V, 17, 93
Hôtel Lincoln, 207
Hôtel Lutétia, 94
Hôtel Majestic, 100
Hôtel Meurice, 119
Hôtel Raphäel, 99, 100
Hôtel Ritz, xiii
Adolf Hitler’s tour of Paris and, 16–17
air raids and, 79–80, 109–10, 114
American press corps and, post-liberation, 177–79, 209–10
artists and social networks in, pre-occupation, 11–13
artists and socialites in, and collaboration with Germans, 77–81, 84–86 165–71, 178–79
artists and socialites in, post-liberation, 198–99
artists and socialites in, xix, 11–13, 19, 32–33, 35–45, 74
art looted by Germans and, 20, 105–8, 164, 166–70, 171–73
as epitome of modern luxury and, 8–9, 32–34
as mirror of Paris, 1–5
Charles de Gaulle and plan for postwar Europe and, 178–79, 214–15, 237
Claude Auzello let go by, 231–34
collaborators and, 3–5, 19–20
collaborators and purges and, post-liberation, 181–92, 196, 212–13
coutures and, 33, 157–58, 178–79
design of, 8–9, 17–18, 32–34, 108
Dietrich von Choltitz’s arrival in, and Hitler’s order to burn Paris, 116–22
dinner in, on eve of occupation, 14–15
dinner in, on night of liberation, 146–48
Dreyfus Affair and, 26–32, 36–39, 41–42, 166
Hôtel Ritz (cont.)
Ernest Hemingway and journalists and, post-liberation, 152–62, 198–200, 208–9
Ernest Hemingway and Robert Capa’s race to “liberate,” xix, 62, 123–50
Ernest Hemingway on, 61, 231
espionage and spies in, 2–3, 19–21
evacuation on eve of liberation and, 81-
eve of liberation and, 76–77, 79–86
eve of occupation and, 9–16
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