4. The Desire

  1.      To know more about their life in Sigmaringen: Louis-Ferdinand Céline, D’un château l’autre (Paris: Gallimard, 1957), and Pierre Assouline, Sigmaringen (Paris: Gallimard, 2014).

  2.      Sartre, “Paris sous l’occupation.”

  3.      Ibid.

  4.      Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 21.

  5.      In French, “Le parti des 75.000 fusillés,” literally, “the party of the seventy-five thousand people executed at gunpoint.”

  6.      Twenty-five thousand French people, of different political affiliations, were executed or deported and killed during the war, according to Stéphane Simonnet, Atlas de la Libération de la France: Des débarquements aux villes libérées (Paris: Autrement, 2004), p. 68.

  7.      Charles de Gaulle held Brasillach among those responsible for the abduction and assassination of the French politician and résistant Georges Mandel on July 7, 1944.

  8.      Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 30.

  9.      Ibid., p. 31.

  10.    Janet Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955 (New York: Harvest/HBJ, 1988), January 17, 1945, p. 15.

  11.    Todd, Albert Camus, pp. 503–8.

  12.    Thomas, Témoin compromis, p. 175.

  13.    Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 31.

  14.    The forty-two-year-old Natalia Danesi Murray, an Italian-language broadcaster who spent the war years in New York. In Wineapple, Genêt, p. 170.

  15.    Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, December 15, 1944, p. 4.

  16.    Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 32.

  17.    Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, p. 25.

  18.    Ibid.

  19.    Today’s Musée d’Orsay.

  20.    Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 51.

  21.    Juliette Gréco in conversation with Agnès C. Poirier on January 7, 2014, at her home in Saint-Tropez.

  22.    Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 46.

  23.    Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, p. 23.

  24.    Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 48.

  25.    She became a naturalized American in 1941.

  26.    Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, p. 26.

  27.    Ibid., p. 27.

  28.    Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 48.

  29.    Yvette Szczupak-Thomas, Un Diamant brut (Paris: Points, 2009), p. 332.

  30.    Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, pp. 340–58.

  31.    The text has been published by Éditions de Minuit in 1989 as Le monde et le pantalon, followed by another text by Beckett on the van Veldes titled Peintres de l’empêchement.

  32.    Assouline, Cartier-Bresson.

  33.    Ibid.

  34.    Brassaï, Conversation avec Picasso, p. 225.

  35.    Ibid., p. 263.

  36.    Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p.54.

  37.    Brassaï, Conversation avec Picasso, p. 265.

  38.    Her husband was a medical student when she met him at the American Center in Paris; his name was Theodore Ehrenreich. In Manhattan, they settled in a flat at the corner of Fifty-Seventh Street and First Avenue. Dolorès Vanetti continued to live there until she died on July 13, 2008.

  39.    Annie Cohen-Solal, “Dolorès Vanetti,” Le Monde, July 19, 2008.

  40.    Archives from the Calder Foundation. Reference: Calder 1966, 188; CF, Carré to Duchamp; CF, Duchamp to Calder, July 3.

  41.    Brassaï, Conversation avec Picasso, p. 333.

  42.    Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, p. 32, and as seen, but in black-and-white newsreel, at http://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86003186.

  43.    Ibid., p. 38.

  44.    Ibid.

  45.    Archives from the Calder Foundation. Reference: Calder 1966, 188. CF, Calder to Carré, August 14; CF, Duchamp to Calder, July 3.