Acknowledgments

This book is about Paris, and so it is fitting that I pay tribute here to the City of Light—to the streets and quarters where the people I have written about worked and lived, and to the many museums that provided me with invaluable resources and inspiration. These include the Musée Carnavalet (Musée de l’Histoire de Paris), the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée Marmottan-Monet, the Musée Rodin, the Petit Palais—Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, the Maison de Victor Hugo, the Musée Clemenceau, the Musée de l’Orangerie des Tuileries, the Musée de Montmartre, the Musée Cognacq-Jay, the Musée Bourdelle, the Musée des Arts et Métiers, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée Fournaise (Chatou), and the Musée de la Grenouillère (Croissy-sur-Seine).

In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been an important resource, and I am especially indebted to the outstanding research division of the New York Public Library, including its Art and Architecture collection and its Library for the Performing Arts, where I have spent countless hours. I am also indebted to the many specialized studies and published letters, diaries, and memoirs to which I have given specific credit in my notes and bibliography.

Along the way, numerous friends and associates have provided valuable help and assistance. I am especially grateful to Susan McEachern, editorial director at Rowman & Littlefield, for her vision, guidance, and support. My thanks as well to assistant editor Carrie Broadwell-Tkach and senior production editor Jehanne Schweitzer for their professionalism and skill in making this book a reality. I am also greatly indebted to Mark Eversman, my longtime editor at Paris Notes.

From start to finish this book has been a labor of love, an adventure that I have undertaken and completed with the steadfast and enthusiastic assistance of my husband, Jack McAuliffe. It has been a team effort, and it is in this spirit that, with thanks and love, I dedicate it to him.