Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank (1995)

by Andrea Weiss

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The city of Paris has often been portrayed as a seductive, mysterious woman - both mistress ans muse to generations of male poets from Baudelaire to e.e. cummings to Louis Aragon. But of course, not all those drawn to the City of Light have been men. In particular the lives and work of modernist women avant la guerre offer us a very different view of Paris during its most magical era.… (more)

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Read it mostly to mentally get ready for our family Parisian adventure next fall. Most of the stories were familiar, but I loved fading some of the personal correspondence of Sylvia Beach, Jane Flanner et al. And Flanner's characterization of Alice Toklas and her grief after Gertrude Stein's death, "she is the most widowed woman I know," brought tears to my eyes. (

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Informatief: geeft een goed beeld van de Amerikaanse lesbische vrouwen die tijdens het Interbellum naar Parijs waren getrokken. (

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bloggerboer | Apr 16, 2011 |

Wonderful collection of photographs and stories from the "Golden Age of Paris," pre WW2 (

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terena | Aug 23, 2006 |

28 women portraits

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Andrea Weiss	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Goerdt, Susanne	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Lambda Literary Award (Winner – Photography/Visual Arts – 1995)

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To my nieces

Jennifer Levy-Lunt,

une femme de la rive gauche

and Isabella Jane Schiller,

une femme de l'avenir

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The city of Paris has often been portrayed as a seductive, mysterious woman - both mistress ans muse to generations of male poets from Baudelaire to e.e. cummings to Louis Aragon. But of course, not all those drawn to the City of Light have been men. In particular the lives and work of modernist women avant la guerre offer us a very different view of Paris during its most magical era.

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