Paris Was Yesterday by Janet Flanner

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Paris was Yesterday is an up-close-and-personal tour through five decades, from the cafés and salons of Paris in the ’20s to the  ramparts of May 1968, and the years immediately following DeGaulle.

Flanner was the first New Yorker correspondent in Paris. Harold Ross, her publisher instructed her: " I don't want to know what you think about Paris. I want to know what the French think about Paris."

Paris was Yesterday is an up-close-and-personal tour through five decades, from the cafés and salons of Paris in the ’20s to the  ramparts of May 1968, and the years immediately following DeGaulle.

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