Springtime in Paris
Inbunden bok. The Cresset Press. 1951. 326 sidor.
Mycket gott skick.
Språk: Engelska.
Companion place to the enchanting "The Last Time I Saw Paris" this is again a warm and human and frequently humorous profile, the mood of the French in postwar Paris, where black market dealings in currency were an essential factor in everyday living, where change had come, but the people went on, where gaiety and ineffectuality and a lovable madness still dominated the character of place and tempo. There are slender threads of story, as for example the beguiling and wholly French tale of the gutter, Christophe, reincarnated as a respectable citizen by recognition of a chance resemblance to the Prime Minister. There's the puzzle of the D.P.'s and what to do with them. There's the story of the painting, and of how a penniless painter held up a hotel clerk for a vast sum when he heard that an accident had befallen the painting. Odd bits...in the Paris of the Spring of '49.
