11. “Paris’s Gloom Is a Powerful Astringent”

0.      Beauvoir, Beloved Chicago Man, p. 142.

0.      Ibid.

0.      Michelle Perrot, Histoires de chambres (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2009), p. 244.

0.      Lennon, Norman Mailer, p. 103.

0.      Shaw, Paris! Paris!, p. 94.

0.      Norman Mailer, “The Art of Fiction,” no. 32, interviewed by Steven Marcus, Paris Review, Winter/Spring 1964.

0.      Ibid.

0.      Mary V. Dearborn, Mailer: A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), p. xx.

0.      Lennon, Norman Mailer, p. 103.

0.    Ibid., p. 99.

0.    Dearborn, Mailer, p. 59.

0.    Beauvoir, Beloved Chicago Man, p. 179.

0.    Ibid., p. 181.

0.    Michel Leiris, Journal 1922–1989 (Paris: Gallimard, 1992), pp. 462–63.

0.    Ibid., p. 463.

0.    Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, October 1, 1953, p. 215.

0.    Ibid., May 26, 1948, p. 87.

0.    Ibid., May 11, 1949, p. 101.

0.    Ibid., May 26, 1948, p. 103.

0.    Beauvoir, Beloved Chicago Man, p. 208.

0.    The writer Claude Roy, quoted in Lottman, Left Bank, p. 241.

0.    Quoted in Spurling, Girl from the Fiction Department, p. 89.

0.    Simone de Beauvoir thought for years that Zaza had died of a broken heart after Merleau-Ponty refused to marry her. In fact, it was her parents who didn’t deem Merleau-Ponty’s family respectable enough for their daughter. In Deirdre Blair, Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 153.

0.    Mamaine Koestler, Living with Koestler, p. 87.

0.    Todd, Albert Camus, p. 665.

0.    Raymond Queneau, “Si tu t’imagines,” in L’instant fatal (Paris: Gallimard, 1948).

0.    François Forestier, Un si beau monstre (Paris: Albin Michel, 2012).

0.    She confided this during an interview on January 7, 2014, at her home in Saint-Tropez.

0.    Marlon Brando was born in 1924, Juliette Gréco in 1927.