Introduction
1. Brenda Wineapple, Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989).
2. Tony Judt, Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals 1944–1956 (New York: New York University Press, 2011).
3. Ibid., p. 11.
4. Richard Seaver, The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the ’50s, New York in the ’60s (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), preface.
5. 60 rue de Seine, in the 6th arrondissement.
6. The password to the free wifi is (or was when I visited) PulpFiction.
7. Simone de Beauvoir, La force des choses (Paris: Gallimard, 1963), vol. 1, p. 132.