Paris on the Brink

The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their Friends

By Mary McAuliffe

Table of Contents

                        List of Illustrations
                        Acknowledgments
                        Map of Paris, 1929–1940
                        Introduction
Chapter 1       End of an Era (1929)            
Chapter 2       Rags and Riches (1929)
Chapter 3       It Could Never Happen Here (1930)
Chapter 4       The Ooh La La Factor (1930)
Chapter 5       Navigating a Dangerous World (1931–1932)
Chapter 6       Taking Sides (1933)
Chapter 7       Bloody Tuesday (1934)
Chapter 8       Sailing, Sailing (1935)
Chapter 9       Coming Apart (1936)
Chapter 10     War in Spain (1936)
Chapter 11     End of a Dream (1937)
Chapter 12     In War’s Shadow (1938)
Chapter 13     Dancing on a Volcano (1939)
Chapter 14     Closing the Circle (1940)Epilogue         ​