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Adams, John Quincy, 181
Aérosol, Jef, 161
À la recherche du temps perdu, or In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 11, 244
Allen, Woody, 32, 269
Amalric, Mathieu, 32
Amélie, 229
American in Paris, An, 32
“America the Beautiful,” xvi
L’ami du peuple, 143
Amuse-Gueules, Les, 271
anarchist impulse:
Commune of 1871 and, 160, 197–98, 217, 225
surrealists and, 192
anonymity, freedom equated with, 139–40
anticipation, satisfaction sharpened by, 252
antiquaires, 220, 222
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 31–32, 104, 272
apples:
as Chirac’s emblem, 254, 255, 256
EU policies and, 254–56
L’Après-midi d’un faune, 203
April in Paris (film), 124
“April in Paris” (song), 121–26
April in Paris, a melancholy vision of (Gorguet), 123
Aragon, Louis, 218, 269, 274
Arbeau, Thoinot (pen name of Jehan Tabourot), 127–28
Arc de Triomphe, xv, xvi, 276
Auber, Brigitte, 11
Aufray, Hugues, 463
August, heat of, 13–14, 15, 136–40
Australia, 225
Christmas in, 24–25
filmmakers and intellectuals in, 37–42
reverence for lost British Empire in, 25
seasonal variation in, 23–24
sense of inferiority, or “cultural cringe,” in, 36–38
Southerly Buster in, 238
autumn, 109, 285
Lafitte’s image for Messidor, 259, 260
poems about, 259–61
autumnal equinox, as first day of Republican year, 107–8
“Autumn in New York,” 122
autumn leaves:
allowed to accumulate, 112
on floor of La Souris Verte, 113, 114
Avignon festival, 67
Aznavour, Charles, 13–14
Baker, Josephine, 174, 205
Bakst, Léon, 203
Baldwin, James, 270
Balladur, Édouard, 256
Ballantine, Poe, 23–24
Ballard, J. G., 188, 190–91, 192–93
Ballard, Mary, 191
Ballets Russes, 200, 201–6
bals and bals musettes, 139–40
Bana, Eric, 32
Barbarella, 189, 190
Barenboim, Daniel, 211
Barnes, Djuna, 161
Barnes, Julian, 88
Bashō, 103
Basie, Count, 279
Bastille, 68, 73, 166, 207–8
“Bateau ivre, Le,” or “The Drunken Boat” (Rimbaud), 160–62, 163
bateaux mouches, 32, 55
Bates, Katharine Lee, xvi
Baxter, Louise (daughter), 2, 7, 50, 52, 57, 170, 237
Beaujolais nouveau, 108, 114–16
Beauvoir, Simone de, 271
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 211
Belle Aurore, La, 30
Benois, Alexandre, 203
Bérard, Christian, 286–87
Bernardini, Alain, 173
Bernardini, Micheline, 173, 175
Biennais, Martin-Guillaume, 179
bikini, first, 173, 175
blackberries, 183
Bleak House (Dickens), 184
Blonde Venue, 38, 39
Boot, Das, 277
Borges, Jorge Luis, 5
Borodin, Alexander, 203
Bourbon monarchy, 75, 95
Bowles, Paul, 116
Brando, Marlon, 32
Brassaï (Gyula Halász), 269
Breton, André, 19–20, 192, 218, 236
brocantes (secondhand markets), 219–26, 221
Brooke, Rupert, 46
Browning, Robert, 126
Bruant, Aristide, 150
Brueghel, Pieter, 6
Bruins, Jan Willem, 161, 163
Brumaire, 46, 119, 181, 217
Buckingham Palace, 69
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 130–32
Burgh brothers, 171
buskers, 146–52, 148, 149, 235
auditions and permits for, 150
foreigners as, 147–49, 149, 151–52
Parisians as, 149–50
risks faced by, 150–51
cadenas d’amour (love locks), 31
Caesar, Julius, 77, 105
cafard, 137, 191
Café de la Mairie, 161
Café des Deux Moulins, 229
cafés, 124, 147, 228, 270
bals at, 139–40
Caflisch, Chasper, 245–46
calendars:
naming of children and, 129, 134
pack of playing cards serving purpose of, 128–29
Republican, see Calendrier républicain
solar, proposed by Comte, 198–99
see also Gregorian calendar
Calendrier républicain (Republican calendar), 10, 13, 46–47, 76–83, 105–8, 129–35, 142–43, 153–57, 180, 190, 217
abolishment of, 186
adopted by Convention, 143
almanac function of, 129
commission convened to explore options for, 77–83, 105–6
Cubières’s ode in celebration of, 143
day left over at end of each year in, 119
day names in, 107
first day of year in, 107–8
holidays in, 119–20, 182–85
impetus for, 46, 76–77
Lafitte’s illustrations for, 154–57, 158, 181, 215, 259, 260
metric system imposed on, 106–7, 117
mocked outside France, 181
month names in, 118–19, 201, 263
naming of children and, 134
“The new Republic rewrites the calendar,” 156
plant and animal names in, 130–34, 214–15
poets, musicians, and artists seizing on nature imagery of, 258–64
purged of religious doctrine and lingering church influence, 118, 198, 237
restoration of, during Commune, 198
transposing dates between Gregorian calendar and, 185
unpopularity of, 134–35, 181
Callaghan, Harry, 222–26
Calle, Sophie, 32–34, 33
Camus, Albert, 271
Canal Saint-Martin, 175–78
Candide (Voltaire), 133
canicule, le (dog days), 14
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 201
Caron, Leslie, 32
Carrefour (crossroads) de l’Odéon, 288–91, 290
Carter, Jimmy, 8
Cassidy, Eva, 262
Catacombs, 75, 180
Céline, 46
Centre des Finances Publiques (tax office), 159, 160–61
Centre Pompidou, 235
Chamade, La (Sagan), 284
Champagne, 154, 237, 249
Champs-Élysées, 208, 275
under wheat, xiv–xvii, xv
Chandler, Raymond, 238, 270
“Chanson d’automne,” or “Autumn Song” (Verlaine), 261, 281–82
Charade, 32
Charente, 86, 136, 252, 277, 285–86
Charnay, Geoffroy de, 35
Chaucer, William, 201
Chesterton, G. K., 162–63
chestnut flowers, as first sign of spring, 125
chestnut sellers, 109, 116
Chevalier, Maurice, 145
chineurs, 220–26
Chirac, Jacques, 253–54, 255, 256
Christmas, 44
in Australia, 24–25
in Richebourg, Île-de-France, 1–3, 6–7
Christopher, John, 187
Christopher, Saint, 33
church:
Calendrier républicain purged of lingering influence of, 118, 198, 237
confiscation of property of, 197
decline of, 7
First Estate and, 2
imprisonment of clergy and, 117–18
Michaelmas and Martinmas and, 182
restored as official institution, 186
Churchill, Winston, 275
Cimitière de Montmartre, 179
Cimitière des Errancis, 180
Citizens (Schama), 80, 82
City of Paris Fine Arts Museum, 99
Civil War, U.S., 73
Clair, René, 149
Clarke, Arthur C., 41
Club des Cordeliers, 82, 141, 144
Cocaine Nights (Ballard), 191
Coco soft-drink sellers, 137, 138
Cocteau, Jean, 200, 202, 202, 206, 286, 287
Code Napoléon, 186
Cohen, Leonard, 249–50
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, 225
Comédie-Italienne, 68
“coming out” rituals, 69–70
Committee of Public Safety, 143, 144, 167
Commune (1871), 160, 197–98, 217, 225
Communists, 216
Compagnie Française des Indes Orientales, 142, 144, 166
Compot or Manual Calendar, The (Tabourot), 128
Comte, Auguste, 198–99
Conciergerie, 18
Convention, 80, 82, 106, 118, 129, 141, 142, 143, 144, 154, 166–167, 168–69
Corday, Charlotte, 143, 164
Cordeliers Club, 82, 141, 144
Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas), 196
Cour du Commerce Saint-André, 75
Crane, Hart, 32, 270
Crazy Horse Saloon, 173
Crillon, Hôtel de, 45
crocodiles, in Canal Saint-Martin, 176–78
Cruikshank, George, 183, 184
Crusades, 162
Crystal World, The (Ballard), 188
Cubières, Michel de, 143
Curie, Marie and Pierre, 60
Dadaists, 218
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 244
Danton, Georges, 78–80, 79, 118, 142, 143, 165, 166–67, 225, 264, 291
burial of, 180
death of, 168–69
Fabre as protégé of, 78, 80, 82–83, 142, 167
statue of, 73–75
Darin, Bobby, 262–63
date palms, moved indoors for winter, 111–12
David, Jacques-Louis, 215
Davis, Miles, 271
Day, Doris, 124
Day for Night, 59
Debord, Guy, 35
Debucourt, Philibert-Louis, 155
Debussy, Claude, 203
débutantes, 69–70
décades (weeks), 107, 182
naming of, 130, 133
“Deck of Cards, The,” 128
Decroux, Étienne, 235
Delvaux, Paul, 192
demi-décades (former fortnight), naming of, 130, 133
Denis, Saint, 230, 233
Desailly, Jean, 18
Desmoulins, Camille, 83, 167–68, 180, 291
Desremond, Catherine (Catiche), 93–94
Diaghilev, Sergei, 201–6
Dickens, Charles, 72–73, 165, 184, 195
Dietrich, Marlene, 38, 39
Dior, Christian, Atelier, 258
Directoire, 180, 185
Divorce, Le (Johnson), 12–13
Dorade, 171
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 187
Dreyfus, Alfred, 50, 51
Drought, The (Ballard), 188
Drowned World, The (Ballard), 188
Dukakis, Michael, xvi
Duke, Vernon, 122–24, 125, 126
Dumas, Alexandre, 60, 196
Duse, Eleanora, 244, 246
East India Company, 142, 144, 166
Eco, Umberto, 38–42, 40, 58, 59, 61
École Militaire, 50
Einstein, Albert, 49
Eleanore, the crocodile of Pont Neuf, 177–78
Elementary Particles (Houellebecq), 87
Elington, Duke, 279
Eliot, T. S., 191, 216
Elizabeth, queen of England, 25
Ellis, George, 181
Élysée, 75
Ernestine, 68
Escoffier, Auguste, 218
euro, 73
Europe, James Reese, 206
European Union (EU), 211, 254–56
événements de ’68, les, 208, 217, 224–26
Everyone Says I Love You, 32
existentialism, 271
Exposition Universelle (1900), 99
Fabre d’Églantine, Philippe-François-Nazaire, 47, 74, 80–83, 81, 91–97, 116, 118, 141–44, 190, 197, 291, 292
burial of, 180
Calendrier républicain and, 13, 78, 105–8, 117, 120, 129–30, 133–35, 142–43, 154, 157, 181, 185, 186, 198, 201, 214–15, 258, 264
childhood and education of, 92
as Danton’s protégé, 78, 80, 82–83, 142, 167
death of, 164, 167, 168
debts of, 94, 95, 96–97
family background of, 91–92
female conquests of, 93–94, 95
golden rose as emblem of, 80–82, 81, 95, 111, 210, 214
Greuze’s portrait of, 141–42
“Il pleut, bergère” written by, 95–96, 168, 292
shady business deals of, 142, 144, 166
street named for, 218
theater career of, 78, 92–94, 95
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 4
farmers:
Calendrier républicain and, 107–8, 118, 129, 130, 153–54, 181–85
influence of, 2
rural decline and, 6–7
wheat in Champs-Élysées and, xiv–xvii, xv
Faulks, Sebastian, 277
“Fern Hill” (Thomas), 17
Fête de la Révolution, La, 119
Fête de la Vertu, La, 119
Fête de l’Opinion, La, 120
Fête des Récompenses, La, 119
Fête du Génie, La, 119
Fête du Travail, La, 119
“Feuilles mortes, Les” (dead leaves), 262
“Feuilles mortes, Les,” or “the dead leaves,” (Prévert), 110
fèves (ceramic figures in galettes), 237–38
filmmakers, 32, 37–38, 233, 269, 277, 279
First Empire, 186
First Estate (church), 2
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 109
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 204–5
Floréal, 119, 133, 214–15, 217
Fokine, Michel, 204, 206
Folies Bergère de Paris, 145
food:
seasonality and, 20, 23, 250–52, 285
shopping for, in Paris vs. New York, 250–52
Foucault, Léon, pendulum of, 61–63, 62, 120, 211, 292
Foucault’s Pendulum (Eco), 59, 61
franc, adoption of, 71
Franco-Prussian War, 160, 197–98
Free French government, 208
Freud, Sigmund, 264
Frimaire, 119, 181
Fructidor, 46, 119
Gaillot, Jacques, 232–33
galette des rois (kings’ cake), 237
Galileo, 62
Gallant, Mavis, 137–39, 140
Gamay grapes, 108, 115
Garbo, Greta, 245–48, 247, 256
Gaulle, Charles de, 75, 208–9, 225, 275, 277
Gee, Oliver, 175–78
geese, 182–83
Gehry, Frank, 32–34, 33
Gelenter, Terrance, 265–68, 267, 274
Germinal, 119, 201
Germinal (Zola), 262
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 44–45, 256
Godin-Lesage, Marie Nicole, 94
“God Save the Queen,” 25
Goering, Hermann, 279
Goodman, Benny, 282
Gopnik, Adam, 26
graffiti artists, 161
Grand Palais (Great Palace), 28, 98–99
Grandpré, Adrian de, 47, 231–34
Grant, Cary, 11, 32
grape harvest, or vendange, 108, 119
Great Barrier Reef, 37, 39
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 21
Gréco, Juliette, 271
Greene, Graham, 270
Gregorian calendar, 77, 105, 118, 127–28
farmers relationship to church and, 181–82
naming of children and, 129
reintroduction of, 186
transposing dates between Calendrier républicain and, 185
Gregory XIII, Pope, 77, 105
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 141–42
grunion, 121
Guillaume de Lorris, 209
guillotine, 69, 73, 75, 76, 106, 142, 154, 164, 168, 169, 195
Guimard, Hector, 230
Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard, 77
haiku, 102–4
Halles, Les, 283
Hanin, Roger, 211
Harburg, E. Y. “Yip,” 122–24, 125
Hardy, Thomas, 258–59
Harlem Hellfighters, 206
Harris, Rolf, 24
harvests, 119, 182, 185, 216, 254, 259, 262, 282
Beaujolais nouveau and, 108, 114–15
first day of Republican year and, 107–8
haussement d’épaules, un, 100
Hawn, Goldie, 32
Hemingway, Ernest, 4, 140, 160
Hemingway, Hadley, 140
Hemingway, Pauline, 160
Henry IV, 18, 34
Henry V (Shakespeare), 216
Henry VIII, king of England, 150
Hepburn, Audrey, 32
Heraclitus, 104
Hitchcock, Alfred, 11, 140, 243
Hitler, Adolf, 275, 276, 279
HLMs (habitation à loyer modéré), 220
holidays, 65–67
in Calendrier républicain, 119–20, 182–85
traditional religious feasts, 182
“Home-Thoughts” (Browning), 126
Honest Man’s Almanac (Maréchal), 107
Hornick, Neil, and the Sidewalkers, 149
Hôtel des Invalides, 75
hot weather, 13–14, 15, 136–40
Houellebecq, Michel, 87–88, 90
houseboats on the Seine, 30, 55
Hugo, Victor, 60, 150, 197
hunting, 67, 69
hurricanes, 53–57
driving to Richebourg during, 54–57
medieval engraving of, 56
Hurricane Xynthia, 136
Île aux Juifs (Jews’ Island), 35
Île de la Cité, 16–21, 17, 34, 53–54
Île de Ré, 85–90
“Il pleut, bergère” (It’s raining, shepherdess), 95–96, 168, 292
impressionists, 104
L’Inconnue de la Seine, or the Unknown Girl of the Seine, 35
“In My Craft or Sullen Art” (Thomas), 270
Inquisition, 62
Isaure, Clémence, 82, 95, 110–11
Jacobins, 143
Jacques, Saint, festival of, 227–34, 232
Jardin du Roi (Royal Garden), 130–32
Jardins du Luxembourg, 91, 110–11, 112, 151, 159, 163
Jaurès, Jean, 211
java (jigging dance), 140
jazz, 270–71, 276, 279
Jefferies, Richard, 187
Jefferson, Thomas, 132
John of Austria, Don, 162
Johnson, Diane, 13
Johnston, George, 44
Jude, Saint, 233
Jung, Karl, 264
kangaroos, 243–44, 246
Keats, John, 259–60
Kelly, Gene, 32, 145
Kelly, Grace, 11
Khan, Yaseen, 110, 111, 116
Kipling, Rudyard, 208
Knights Templar, 35
Kolberg, 279
Kosma, Joseph, 262
Laerdal, Asmund, 35
Lafayette, Marquis de, 83
Lafitte, Louis, 154–57, 158, 181, 215, 259, 260
La Fontaine, Jean de, 291–92
Lagrange, Louis, 77–78
Lang, Jack, 50, 211
Lange, Jessica, 236
La Pallice submarine base, 277, 281
Larche, François-Raoul, 100–102, 102, 104
La Rochelle, Nazi occupation of, 276–82, 278
Last Tango in Paris, 32
Laure et Pétrarque, 95
Lawrence, T. E., 7
Leda and the swan, 157, 158
Lefrançois de Lalande, Joseph Jérôme, 77
legal system, 186
Le Havre, 17–18
Leigh, Vivien, 151
Leopold II of Belgium, 99
“Lepanto” (Chesterton), 162–63
liberation of Paris (1944), 208
Life of Pi, 174
lily of the valley, 215
literary walks, 241–42
Litscher, Hans Peter, and his Litscheriade, 242–48, 243
London Times, 185
Lost Generation, 228
Louis XIV, 207, 210
Louis XVI, xvi, 18, 68–69, 76, 82, 96–97, 166
Louvre, 28, 180
Lucas, George, 48
Lunceford, Jimmie, 279
Luxembourg Garden, see Jardins de Luxembourg
lycée system, 186
“Lydia the Tattooed Lady,” 122, 124
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 256
MacLeish, Archibald, 4
Mah, Ann, 285
Maison Maire, 218
Mallory, George, 7
Malraux, André, 275
Manceron, Claude, 211
Manhattan, author’s visit to, 249–52
Marais, 176–77, 272–74
Marat, Jean-Paul, 143–44, 164, 291
Marceau, Marcel, 235
Maréchal, Pierre-Sylvain, 107
Marianne (spirit of the revolution), 155
Marie Antoinette, 68, 69, 76, 96, 164, 210
markets, business hours of, 67
Marlowe, Christopher, 92
Marseillaise, 71, 73, 94
Martinmas, 182, 185
May, disasters that took place in, 216–17
May Day, 216, 219
Mazet-Delpeuch, Danièle, 257
measurement systems:
metric, 106–7
physical circumstances and, 49
Méditerranée, La, 286–87
“Mer, La” (the sea), 262–63
Messidor, 119, 259, 260
“Messidor” (Miaux), 282
Métivet, Lucien, 217
metric system, 154
Calendrier républicain and, 106–7, 117
Miaux, Albert, 281–82
Michaelmas, 182–84, 184
Michel, Louise, 225
Midnight in Paris, 269
Miller, Henry, 161, 269
mimes, 235–38, 239
Minosuke, Yamada, 100–104
Mirror, The (Delvaux), 192, 193
Misérables, Les (Hugo), 197
Mistral, 236–39, 239, 240
Mitchell, David, 24
Mittelberg, Louis, 51
Mitterand, François, 208–9, 210–13, 212, 253, 254, 256–57
Moati, Serge, 211
Molay, Jacques de, 35
Molière, 80, 92
Monet, Claude, 104
Monge, Gaspard, 77
Monk, Thelonious, 271
Montagnards, 143
Montaud, Yves, 18–19
Montel, Marie-Dominique (wife), 2, 17, 22, 43–44, 47, 54–55, 60, 61, 63, 64–67, 84–87, 90, 170, 177, 223, 229, 277, 281, 290–91
month names, in Republican calendar, 118–19, 201, 263
Montmartre, 112–16, 179, 197–98, 228–31, 269
moue (pronunciation), 99, 100
Moulin, Jean, 60, 211
muguet (lily of the valley), 215
Munich, 32
Musée de Luxembourg, 111–12
Musée d’Orsay, 99
Nadja (Breton), 19, 20
Name of the Rose, The (Eco), 40–41
naming of children, 129, 134, 199
Napoléon Bonaparte, xvi, 1, 50, 75, 134, 171, 179, 180, 185–86, 198, 216, 217, 279
Napoléon III, Emperor, 64
National Guard, 95
Neuilly, childbirthing facility in, 64–65
Newby, Eric, 8
“New York minute,” 49
nightwalkers, see noctambules
Nijinsky, Vaslav, 200, 203, 204, 206
Nin, Anaïs, 30
Nivôse, 119, 133–34
noctambules (nightwalkers), 268–74
jazz and, 270–71
Paris inconvenient for, 269–70
sex clubs and, 272–74
Notre Dame, 18
Notre Dame de Paris (Hugo), 150
Nuit des Rois (Night of Kings), 237
occupation (1940–44):
of Paris, 171, 208, 275–76, 277
of southwest France, 276–82, 278
Occupation (1940–1945): Siège de La Rochelle (Miaux), 280–82
O’Day, Bob and Deidre, 227–31
Opéra, 28
Orangerie, 112
Orchestre de Paris, 211
Orczy, Baroness, 165, 195–97
ortolans, 257
Paine, Thomas, 166
Palais de Justice, 18, 21
Panthéon, 60–63
Foucault’s pendulum at, 61–63, 62, 211
Mitterand at, 210–13, 212
Parade, 206
“Paris at Night” (Prévert), 272
“Paris au mois d’août,” or “Paris in the Month of August,” 13–14
Paris plage (Paris beach), 170
Parker, Charlie “Bird,” 271
Parker, Dorothy, 125–26, 210
past:
French deeply respectful of, 26
French penchant for dwelling in, 49–50
patrimoine, le (“the heritage”—the accumulated glory of France), 26, 32
Péret, Benjamin, 218
Périphérique (ring road enclosing Paris), 55–56
Persian unit of distance, 49
Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 276
Peter, Paul and Mary, 227
Petit Palais (Little Palace), 98–99
pet shops, 177
phantom of the Opéra, legend of, 28
Piaf, Édith, 149, 150
Picasso, Pablo, 206
Picpus convent, 73, 179, 218
pigs, butchering of, 185
pilgrimages, 85
Pingré, Alexandre Guy, 77
Piscine Deligny, 171–73, 172
Piscine Molitor, 173–74, 174
piscines (swimming pools), 170–74, 172, 174
Place Dauphine, 18–20, 53–54
Place de la Concorde (formerly Place de la Révolution), 43, 45, 164, 168, 171
Place des Abbesses, 230
Place Saint-Sulpice, 159, 163
Platform (Houellebecq), 87–88, 90
Pluviôse, 119, 146, 181
politics, showmanship in, 207–13
Pompidou, Georges, 254
Pont Alexandre III, 159
Pont d’Alma, 27, 29
Pont de Bir-Hakeim, 32
Pont des Arts, 31
Pont d’Iéna, 55
Pont du Garigliano, Calle and Gehry’s phone booth on, 32–34, 33
Pont Neuf, 19, 34–35, 170
Eleanore, the crocodile of, 177–78
Poulenc, Francis, 206
Prairial, 119, 157
Préjean, Albert, 149
Prévert, Jacques, 110, 262, 272, 274
“Prima Belladonna” (Ballard), 191
Prin, Alice (aka Kiki), 218
Prix de Rome, 154–55
Proud Fool, The (Fabre), 142
Proudhon, Sophie, 93
Proust, Marcel, 11, 171, 244
Queen Charlotte’s Ball, 69
Raiders of the Lost Ark, 277
rain, 145–47, 151–52
“Singin’ in the Rain” and, 145, 146–47
see also storms
Ray, Man, 159–60, 161, 218, 222
Reagan, Ronald, 8
Réard, Louis, 173
Rear Window, 140
Récamier, Juliette, 215
Reformation, 118
Republican calendar, see Calendrier républicain
Resistance, 209, 211, 277
restaurants, seasonality and supplies delivered to, 20
Resusci Anne, 35
revolution of 1789, 2, 61, 68–69, 71–75, 94, 97, 120, 180, 198, 216, 225
achievements of, 71–72
burials after, 179–80
calendar reform and, see Calendrier républicain
Catholic clergy imprisoned in, 117–18
date reset after, 76
ended by Napoléon’s coup, 185–86
fears of invasion by Catholic Austria and Italy after, 117
gory aftermath of, 72–73, 74, 75, 76, 117–18, 164–69
later uprisings and, 197–98
mocked by Fabre, 142
novels, plays, and musical works inspired by, 194–97
storming of Bastille in, 68, 73, 207–8
Revue Nègre, 205
Reynolds, Debbie, 145
Richebourg, Île-de-France:
checking on in-laws’ house in, during storm, 54–57
Christmas Day in, 1–3, 6–9
rural decline and, 6–7
Rictus, Jehan, 150
Rimbaud, Arthur, 160–62, 163
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 203
Robespierre, Maximilien de, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 82, 142, 143, 144, 165, 186, 217, 218, 264
burial of, 180
the Terror and, 165, 167, 168–69
“Roman de la rose,” or “The Romance of the Rose” (Guillaume de Lorris), 209
Romme, Charles-Gilbert, 78, 143, 180
rose:
Floréal associated with, 214–15
golden, as Fabre’s emblem, 80–82, 81, 95, 111, 210, 214
Mitterand’s use of symbology of, 209, 210–13, 212, 254
as symbol of love, 209–10
Rouch, Jean, 38, 41
Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph, 94
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 60, 132
rue de l’Odéon, 73–75, 106, 155, 289
rue Férou, 159–61
rural decline, 6–7
Ruskin, John, 263–64
Russian Revolution, 73
Sacre du printemps, Le (The Rite of Spring), 201–6, 202
Sade, Marquis de, 166, 190, 192
Sagan, Françoise, 284
Sainte-Chapelle, 18, 21
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 60, 253
Saint-Gerrmain-des Prés, 110, 111
Saint-Just, Louis de, 165, 180
Saint-Sulpice, Church of, 58
sanitation, 20, 43
sans-culottes, les (those without pants), 82, 106, 119
Sardou, Victorien, 218
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 271
Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy), 165, 194, 195–97
Schama, Simon, 80, 82
Schmidt, Tobias, 75
Schneider, Maria, 32
Schoelcher, Victor, 211
Schultz-Köhn, Dietrich, 276, 282
science fiction, 187–92, 236, 270
Scott, Robert Falcon, 7
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), 265–68
seasonality:
art of living in France and, 283–86
food and, 20, 23, 250–52, 285
and symbolism of nature in works of poets, musicians, and artists, 258–64
seawater, thalassotherapy and, 84–90
Second Estate (aristocracy), 2
Seine, 27–35, 116, 235
bateaux mouches (excursion boats) on, 32, 55
bridges over, 31–35
crocodile living in, 177–78
floodwaters of, 27–31, 29
houseboats on, 30, 55
island in, see Île de la Cité
Paris plage (Paris beach) along bank of, 170
piscines (swimming pools) in, 170–74, 172, 174
upstream, unconfined by stone walls, 30
sex clubs, 272–74
Shakespeare, William, 92, 215, 216, 256
Shakespeare & Company, 31
Shaw, Irwin, 286–87
Sidewalks of London (also known as Saint Martin’s Lane), 151
Sieyès, Abbé, 2
Simon, Louis-Victor, 95
“Singin’ in the Rain,” 145, 146–47
Sirius, the Dog Star, 14
“Six White Boomers,” 24
skiing season, 65–66, 67
Slate, 137–39
snails, gathering and cooking, 22–23
social acceptance in France, 44–47
socialists, 210, 216
Socrates, 285
solar calendar, proposed by Comte, 198–99
Something Wholesale (Newby), 8
Soupault, Philippe, 269
Souris Verte, La, or The Green Mouse, 112–14, 113, 116
Sous les toits de Paris, or Under the Roofs of Paris, 149
Southern, Ann, 145
Soviet Russia, calendar reform in, 199
Spectre de la rose, Le, 200, 203, 204
Spielberg, Steven, 32, 192
spring, arrival of, 200–201
Star Wars, 48
Stein, Gertrude, 205–6
Sternberg, Josef von, 38, 39, 41
storms, 53–57
checking on in-laws’ house in Richebourg during, 54–57
Japanese haiku and, 102–4
Larche’s Tempête et ses nuées and, 100–102, 102, 104
see also rain
Stravinsky, Igor, 201, 202, 203–4
street, Parisians’ complex relationship with, 147–48
street performers, see buskers
student uprising of May 1968, 208, 217, 224–26
Studio Babelsberg, 279
submarine bases, in southwest France, 276–82, 278
summer:
heat of, 13–14, 15, 136–40
vacances (vacations) in, 66, 201, 288
Sunday, as day of rest, 186, 199
Super-Cannes (Ballard), 191
surrealists, 161, 192, 218, 236
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 72–73, 165, 195
tall poppy syndrome, 106
Tegen-Beeld Foundation, 161
Tempête et ses nuées (Larche), 100–102, 102, 104
Terreur, La (the Terror), 43, 75, 155, 165–69, 218
thalassotherapy, 84–90
Thatcher, Margaret, 45
Théâtre de l’Odéon, 225, 286–87
Théâtre du Châtelet, 200, 201, 204, 205
Thermidor, 14, 46, 119, 157, 158, 217–18
Thermidor (Sardou), 218
Third Estate (landowners, farmers, and people in business), 2
Thomas, Dylan, 17, 270, 273–74
Thouin, André, 130–33, 131
time, perception of, 49–50
“To Autumn” (Keats), 259–61
To Catch a Thief, 11
Tolstoy, Leo, 200
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 269
Trenet, Charles, 262–63
Tresca, Salvatore, 157
tricolor (flag), 71, 73
Truffaut, François, 59
Tuileries Garden, 50
Turquin, Barthélémy, 171
Twain, Mark, 8
Tyler, T. Texas, 128–29
Universal Exposition of 1900, 99
University of Sydney, 37
uprisings of 1830 and 1832, 197
vacances (vacations), 66, 201, 288
Vatican, 117
Vendémiaire, 46, 119
Ventôse, 119
Verdet, André, 238
Verlaine, Paul, 160, 261, 281–82, 285
Vermilion Sands stories (Ballard), 191
Verne, Jules, 188–90
Versailles, 53, 55, 56–57, 68, 75, 96, 164, 207
Vert-Galant, 35, 235
Vertigo, 140
Vian, Boris, 227, 271
Vichy government, 276
Villon, François, 272, 274
Voice of America, 270, 271
Voltaire, 60, 133
“Voyages” (Crane), 32
Walk a Little Faster, 122
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 200
weather, French responses to, 7–9, 23, 283
Weissmuller, Johnny, 173
Wells, H. G., 187
Wharton, William, 30
Whitman, Walt, 120
Wilde, Oscar, 69
Wilder, Alec, 121
Wilson, Owen, 269
wine, 122, 153, 167
Beaujolais nouveau, 108, 114–16
Champagne, 154, 237, 249
winter:
Christmas rituals and, 24–25
foods and smells of, 109–10
pleasures of, 116
shift from autumn to, 109–16
in south of France, 181
winter scenes, paintings of, 6
Wolfe, Thomas, 266
Wordsworth, William, 72
World War II, 153, 192, 206, 209
liberation of Paris in, 208
Nazi occupation in, 171, 208, 275–82, 278
Wyndham, John, 188
Zoave on the Pont d’Alma, 27, 29
Zola, Émile, 60, 262
“Zone” (Apollinaire), 31–32