18. R2-4-10, letter to mother, July 3, 1940, Vichy.
19. R2-4-11, letter to mother, August 2, 1940, Ozon.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. R1-7-88, letter from mother, August 22, 1940, Vevey.
24. Ibid.
25. R2-4-13 to 14, letter to mother, August 18, 1940, Ozon via Tournay.
26. R1-7-89, letter from mother, September 27, 1940, Vevey.
27. R2-4-15, letter to mother, August 27, 1940, Ozon.
28. R1-12/51T, letter to Yvonne, September 18, 1940, Vichy.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. R1-7-89, letter from mother, September 27, 1940, Vevey.
32. Ibid.
33. Georges Valois, “La nouvelle étape du Fascisme,” Le Nouveau Siècle, May 23, 1927.
34. D2-3-271, letter to Pierre Winter, September 8, 1930, Paris.
35. R2-4-16, letter to mother, October 1, 1940, Ozon.
36. Price, A Concise History of France, p. 260.
37. R1-7-89, letter from mother, September 27, 1940, Vevey.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Price, A Concise History of France, p. 259.
41. R2-4-17, letter to mother, October 31, 1940, Ozon.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. R2-4-18 to 20, letter to mother, November 16, 1940, Ozon.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. R1-7-93, letter from mother, December 1, 1940, Vevey.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid.
51. R2-4-24, letter to mother, January 17, 1940, Vichy.
52. Jackson, France, p. 263.
53. R2-4-22, letter to mother, December 18, 1940, Ozon.
54. R2-4-24, letter to mother, January 17, 1941, Vichy.
55. R1-7-95, letter from mother, January 18, 1941, Vevey.
56. R2-4-25, letter to mother, January 31, 1941, Vichy.
57. Ibid.
58. R2-4-26, letter to mother, February 17, 1941, Hotel Albert Ier, Vichy.
59. Ibid.
60. R1-7-96, letter from mother, March 12, 1941, Vevey.
61. R2-4-28 to 29, letter to mother, March 27, 1941, Queen’s Hotel, Vichy.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Le Corbusier, Les maisons “Murondins” (Paris–Clermont-Ferrand: E. Chiron, 1942).
68. R2-4-30, letter to mother, April 22, 1941, Vichy.
69. R1-7-97, letter from mother, May 18, 1941, Vevey.
70. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 87.
71. Ibid.
72. R2-4-33, letter to mother, June 2, 1941, Vichy.
73. Ibid.
74. A2-17-239, Demande de dérogation, June 2, 1941, Vichy.
75. Ibid.
76. R1-7-98, letter from mother, June 4, 1941, Vevey.
77. R1-7-100, letter from mother, July 29, 1941, Vevey.
78. R1-7-103, letter from mother, September 14, 1941, Geneva.
79. R1-7-104, letter from mother, September 30, 1941, Vevey.
80. Ibid.
81. R2-4-38, letter to mother, October 6, 1941, Vichy.
82. R2-4-39, letter to mother, October 17, 1941, Vichy.
83. R2-4-40, letter to mother, October 23, 1941, Vichy.
84. R2-4-44, telegram to mother, November 8, 1941, Geneva.
85. R2-4-43, postcard to mother, November 6, 1941, Vichy.
86. R2-4-46 to 47, letter to mother, November 30, 1941, Vichy.
87. Ibid.
88. Ibid.
89. Ibid.
90. R2-4-48, letter to mother, December 15, 1941, Vichy.
91. Ibid.
92. R2-4-49, letter to mother, December 27, 1941, Vichy.
93. E2-13-38, letter from Pierre Jeanneret, December 29, 1941, Grenoble.
94. Ibid.
95. Ibid.
96. Ibid.
CHAPTER XXXV
1. R2-4-51, letter to mother, January 31, 1942, Vichy.
2. R1-7-106, letter from mother, February 5, 1942, Vevey.
3. R2-4-52, letter to mother, February 12, 1942, Vichy.
4. Ibid.
5. Le Corbusier to M. Berthelot, February 14, 1942, Vichy.
6. R2-4-53, letter to mother, March 19, 1942, Vichy.
7. Ibid.
8. Jackson, France, p. 143.
9. Ibid., pp. 327, 328.
10. Andrés Horacio Reggiani, “Alexis Carrel, the Unknown: Eugenics and Population Research Under Vichy,” French Historical Studies 25, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 339.
11. B3-12-219, letter from Alexis Carrel, February 19, 1942, Paris.
12. A2-17-17, letter to Alexis Carrel, March 7, 1942, Hotel du Cheval Blanc, Vézelay.
13. R2-4-55, letter to mother, March 28, 1942, Vichy.
14. Ibid.
15. Jackson, France, p. 350.
16. R2-4-55, letter to mother, March 28, 1942, Vichy.
17. Ibid.
18. R1-7-104, letter from mother, March 25, 1942, Vevey.
19. R2-4-56, letter to mother, April 15, 1942, Hotel Aletti, Algiers.
20. Ibid.
21. A2-17-53, letter from François de Pierrefeu, April 18, 1942, Vichy.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. R2-4-54, letter to mother, May 26, 1942, Vichy.
26. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 92.
27. Interview with Roger Aujame, October 5, 2000.
28. A2-17-57, letter from François de Pierrefeu, October 3, 1942, Vichy.
29. Jackson, France, p. 447.
CHAPTER XXXVI
1. R2-4-59, letter to mother, December 22, 1942, Paris.
2. Note from Le Corbusier to M. Lallemant, January 8, 1943, Paris.
3. Letter from Le Chef du Cabinet Civil to M. le Ministre Secrétaire d’Etat à l’Education Nationale (Secrétaire général des Beaux Arts), 7/O. M., January 19, 1943, Vichy.
4. Letter from Le Conseiller d’Etat Secrétaire Général des Beaux Arts, Etat Français Paris, L. Hautecoeur, to Monsieur le Chef du Cabinet Civil de M. le Maréchal Pétain at the Hotel du Parc, February 12, 1943.
5. R2-4-60, postcard to mother, January 6, 1943, Paris.
6. R2-4-61, letter to mother, March 23, 1943, Paris.
7. Interview with Roger Aujame, October 5, 2000.
8. R2-4-61, letter to mother, March 23, 1943, Paris.
9. Hervé Le Boteuf, La Vie Parisienne sous l’Occupation (Paris: Editions France-Empire, 1997), p. 342; with thanks to Alan Riding.
10. R2-4-64, letter to mother, June 15, 1943, Paris.
11. R2-4-65, letter to mother, July 21, 1943, Paris.
12. Ibid.
13. R2-4-66, letter to mother, October 12, 1943, Paris.
14. R2-4-67, letter to mother, November 6, 1943, Paris.
15. R2-4-66, letter to mother, October 12, 1943, Paris.
16. R2-4-67, letter to mother, November 6, 1943, Paris.
17. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/protagor.htm.
18. F2-14-109, letter from J. Merlet, December 3, 1943, Vichy.
CHAPTER XXXVII
1. R2-4-68, letter to mother, February 7, 1944, Paris.
2. Ibid.
3. R2-4-69, letter to mother, March 22, 1944, Paris.
4. R2-4-71, letter to mother, May 28, 1944, Paris.
5. R2-4-73 to 74, letter to mother, November 7, 1944, Paris.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. R2-4-77, postcard to mother, April 28, 1945, Nancy.
9. Ibid.
10. Le Corbusier and Jeanneret, Oeuvre complète, vol. 4: 1938–1946 (Zurich: Les Editions d’Architecture, 1977), p. 132.
11. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 94.
12. R2-4-78, postcard to mother, May 8, 1945, Paris.
13. A2-17-236, letter from Jean Balleuf, May 25, 1945.
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br /> 14. Petit, Le Corbusier parle, pp. 102, 103.
15. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 92.
16. Janet Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1965 (New York: Atheneum, 1965), p. 40.
17. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 87.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
1. R2-04-81, letter to mother, August 3, 1945, Paris.
2. R2-04-82, letter to mother, August 28, 1945, Paris.
3. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 94.
4. Ibid., p. 96.
5. Le Corbusier, Les trois établissements humains (Paris: Denoël, 1945).
6. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 95.
7. R1-9-9, cable from Yvonne Le Corbusier, December 6, 1935, Paris.
8. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 96.
9. Ibid.
10. Le Corbusier and Jeanneret, Oeuvre complète, vol. 5: 1946–1952, (Zurich: Les Editions d’ Architecture, 1977), p. 179.
11. Jerzy Soltan, “Working with Le Corbusier,” in H. Allen Brooks, ed., Le Corbusier: The Garland Essays (New York: Garland, 1987), p. 11.
12. Petit, Le Corbusier parle, p. 13.
CHAPTER XXXIX
1. R2-4-83 to 84, letter to mother, March 24, 1946, Paris.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. R2-4-85, letter to mother, April 14, 1946, Paris.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. R2-4-87, letter to mother, May 3, 1946, Paris.
9. George A. Dudley, A Workshop for Peace: Designing the United Nations Headquarters, New York (Cambridge, Mass.: Architectural History Foundation, MIT Press, 1994), p. 43.
10. E3-10-42, letter to Mrs. Harris, May 17, 1946, Roosevelt Hotel, New York.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. E3-10-43, letter to Mrs. Harris, May 27, 1946, Roosevelt Hotel, New York.
17. Ibid.
18. R2-4-88, letter to mother, July 21, 1946, New York, sent from Paris.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. R1-12-58, letter to Yvonne, September 5, 1946, New York.
23. Ibid.
24. R2-04-90, letter to mother, November 6, 1946, Grosvenor Hotel, New York.
25. Dudley, A Workshop for Peace, pp. 15, 16.
26. R1-12-64, letter to Yvonne, November 18, 1946, New York.
27. D1-18/213, letter from J. D. Rockefeller Jr. to Dr. E. Zuleta Angel, December 10, 1946, New York.
28. E3-10-45, letter to Mrs. Harris, December 3, 1946, Grosvenor Hotel, New York.
29. R1-12-64, letter to Yvonne, November 18, 1946, New York.
30. R2-4-96, letter to mother, December 29, 1946, Paris.
31. Ibid.
32. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 98.
33. R2-04-99, letter to mother, February 20, 1947, Hotel Grosvenor, New York.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. R2-04-100 to 101, letter to mother, March 16, 1947, Paris.
37. Soltan, “Working with Le Corbusier,” p. 5.
38. Petit, Le Corbusier parle, p. 104.
39. R2-04-100 to 101, letter to mother, March 16, 1947, Paris.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. R2-4-102, letter to mother, March 22, 1947, Paris.
43. Ibid.
44. R1-12-66, letter to Yvonne, March 24, 1947, Grosvenor Hotel, New York.
45. R2-4-103, letter to mother, March 27, 1947, New York.
46. Bacon, Le Corbusier in America, p. 392.
47. Geoffrey T. Hellman, “Profiles, from Within to Without,” The New Yorker, April 26 and May 3, 1947.
48. Ibid.
49. R1-12-60, letter to Yvonne, April 22, 1947, Grosvenor Hotel, New York.
50. Dudley, A Workshop for Peace, pp. viii, 236.
51. R1-12-60, letter to Yvonne, April 22, 1947, Grosvenor Hotel, New York.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Hellman, “Profiles, from Within to Without.”
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. D1-18-240 to 241, letter to Geoffrey Hellman, May 13, 1947, Grosvenor Hotel, New York.
61. Ibid.
62. R2-04-104 to 105, letter to mother, May 6, 1947, New York.
63. Ibid.
64. R1-04-113, letter to mother, July 19, 1947, Paris.
65. Bacon, Le Corbusier in America, and Dudley, A Workshop for Peace are excellent sources on the subject.
66. Dudley, A Workshop for Peace, p. 340.
67. R2-04-114, letter to mother, August 1, 1947, Paris.
68. R2-04-115, letter to mother, September 6, 1947, Paris.
69. R2-04-116 to 117, letter to mother, November 14, 1947, Paris.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid.
CHAPTER XL
1. E2-7-268, letter to Luis Miro Quesada, May 12, 1947, Grosvenor Hotel, New York.
2. E2-7-269, letter to Hedwig Lauber, July 17, 1947, Paris.
3. Le Corbusier and Jeanneret, Oeuvre complète, vol. 5, p. 24.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. R2-04-118 to 119, letter to mother, January 10 and 12, 1948, Paris.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. R2-4-120, letter to mother, January 2, 1948, Paris.
13. R2-04-121, letter to mother, April 4, 1948, Paris.
14. R2-04-122, postcard to mother, June 11, 1948, Marseille.
15. R2-04-123 to 125, letter to mother, August 18, 1948, Paris.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. E3-10-47, letter to Mrs. Harris, October 7, 1948, Smyrna.
21. Le Corbusier, “De Divino Proportione,” lecture given at Milan Triennale, September 1951.
CHAPTER XLI
1. E3-10-48, letter to Mrs. Harris, February 23, 1949, written while flying over New York, mailed from Bogotá.
2. E3-10-49, letter to Mrs. Harris, June 17, 1949, New York.
3. R2-2-1, letter to mother, February 19, 1949, Paris.
4. R2-2-3 to 4, letter from Dr. Curutchet to Le Corbusier and letter from Le Corbusier to his mother, July 9, 1949, Paris.
5. R2-2-6, letter to mother, August 20, 1949, Hotel Majestic, Menton.
6. R1-12-67, letter to Yvonne, August 1, 1949, Venice.
7. Ibid.
8. R2-2-7, letter to mother, August 30, 1949, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
9. E2-19-30, letter to Picasso, August 23, 1949, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
10. R2-2-8, letter to mother, September 7, 1949, Paris.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. R2-2-9 to 10, letter to mother, October 23, 1949, Paris.
15. R2-2-11, letter to mother, November 16, 1949, Paris.
16. Ibid.
17. R2-2-12 to 13, letter to mother, December 11, 1949, Paris.
18. Interview with Lucien Hervé, May 29, 2002.
19. Ibid.
20. R2-2-14, letter to mother, December 23, 1949, Paris.
21. Ibid.
22. E1-5-96, letter from Badovici, December 30, 1949, n.p.
23. E1-5-104, letter to Badovici, August 23, 1950, Paris.
24. E1-6-176 to 178, letter to André Bauchant, October 31, 1949, Paris.
25. Ibid.
26. R2-2-16, letter to mother, February 24, 1950, Bogotá.
27. R1-12-73, letter to Yvonne, February 17, 1950, Bogotá.
28. R2-2-16, letter to mother, February 24, 1950, Bogotá.
29. R1-12-73, letter to Yvonne, February 17, 1950, Bogotá.
30. R2-2-17, letter to mother, April 13, 1950, Paris; written by Le Corbusier but including entries by Albert.
31. R2-2-19, letter to mother,
May 30, 1950, Paris.
32. R2-2-20, letter to mother, June 9, 1950, Paris.
33. R2-2-22, letter to mother, August 26, 1950, Paris.
34. R1-12-77, letter to Yvonne, August 30, 1950, New York.
35. Ibid.
36. R1-12-78, letter to Yvonne, September 2, 1950, Bogotá.
37. R1-12-79, letter to Yvonne, September 4, 1950, Bogotá.
38. R1-12-82, letter to Yvonne, September 19, 1950, Hotel Continental, Bogotá.
39. R1-12-83, letter to Yvonne, September 28, 1950, New York.
40. Ibid.
41. E2-7-274T, letter to H. Lauber, October 20, 1950, Paris.
42. E2-07/283, letter to H. Lauber, September 25, 1951, Paris.
43. E2-7/300, letter from H. Lauber, June 6, 1957, Zurich.
44. R2-2-24, letter to mother, November 28, 1950, Paris.
45. R2-2-25, letter to mother, December 5, 1950, Paris.
CHAPTER XLII
1. Ravi Kalia, Chandigarh: The Making of an Indian City (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 42.
2. Ibid., p. 12.
3. Ibid., p. 87.
4. Ibid., p. 88.
5. R2-2-26, letter to mother, December 10, 1950, Paris.
6. R2-2-27, letter to mother, December 21, 1950, Paris.
7. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 103.
8. Le Corbusier, Poésie sur Alger (Paris: Falaize, 1950).
9. Le Corbusier, Une petite maison (Zurich: Girsberger, 1954).
10. R2-2-34, letter to mother, January 21, 1951, Paris.
11. Ibid.
12. R2-2-37, letter to Albert and mother, February 5, 1951, Paris.
13. Ibid.
14. Mike Lebowitz, “French Landmark Housed Prisoners During WWII,” Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2004.
15. R2-2-38, letter to mother, February 18, 1951, Paris.
CHAPTER XLIII
1. R1-12-96, letter to Yvonne, February 25, 1951, Chandigarh.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, pp. 104, 105.
6. R1-12-87, letter to Yvonne, February 27, 1951, Chandigarh.
7. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 103.
8. Ibid., p. 104.
9. Petit, Le Corbusier parle, p. 15.
10. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, p. 104.
11. Ibid.
12. R1-12-87, letter to Yvonne, February 26, 1951, Chandigarh.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. R1-12-89, letter to Yvonne, March 4, 1951, Chandigarh.
16. R1-12-90, letter to Yvonne, March 7, 1951, Chandigarh.
17. Ibid.
18. R2-2-39, letter to mother, March 12, 1951, Simla.
19. Ibid.
20. Balkrishna V. Doshi, Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn: The Acrobat and the Yogi of Architecture (Ahmedabad: Vastu-Shilpa Foundation, 1990), p. 3.
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