9. Love, Style, Drugs, and Loneliness
1. Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre, p. 434.
2. Ibid.
3. Which she did. She was buried with it in 1986, five years after his death and twenty-two years after they last spoke.
4. A study of despair and corruption, Sciuscià was no entertainment but “a brilliantly executed social document,” as the critic for the New York Times reluctantly had to admit.
5. Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre, p. 454.
6. Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol.1, pp. 176–77.
7. Ibid., p. 182.
8. Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, p. 79.
9. Spurling, Girl from the Fiction Department, p. 82.
10. Little did Simone de Beauvoir know that Lucian’s future wife, Caroline Blackwood, a Guinness heiress, would years later elope with her dear friend Nathalie Sorokine’s husband, the Hollywood screenwriter Ivan Moffat.
11. Rowley, Richard Wright, p. 363.
12. Ibid., p. 364.
13. Gréco, Jujube, p. 104.
14. Interview with Agnès Catherine Poirier on January 7, 2014, at her home in Saint-Tropez.
15. As related by Elisabeth Quin in Bel de Nuit (Paris: Grasset, 2007).
16. “This is how the troglodytes of Saint-Germain-des-Prés live” by Robert Jacques, in Samedi Soir, May 3, 1947.
17. Gréco, Jujube, p. 104.
18. Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 181.
19. According to Olivier Todd during an interview with the author at the Café Le Sélect on December 11, 2013.
20. Rowley, Tête-à-tête, p. 205.
21. Marie-Dominique Lelièvre, Sagan à toute allure (Paris: Denoël, 2008), p. 228.
22. Rowley, Tête-à-tête, p. 205.
23. Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, p. 386.
24. Ibid., p. 387.
25. Ibid., p. 378.
26. Fonds Édith Thomas, Archives Nationales, quoted in David, Dominique Aury, p. 402.
27. Letter from Dominique Aury to Édith Thomas, August 6, 1947, Fonds Édith Thomas, Archives Nationales, quoted in David, Dominique Aury, p. 406.
28. Quoted in Dorothy Kaufmann, Édith Thomas, passionnément résistante (Paris: Autrement, 2007), p. 186.