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In this excellent synthesis of sociable, political, and ethnical record, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a brilliant and persuasive portrayal of the City of Lights following its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the starting periods of the Cold War. From this volatile politics backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: ratings were settled with tough and uneven justice, black marketers grew wealthy on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists, including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picasso, contributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.
