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[excerpt from Jackie as Editor, by Greg Lawrence - Thomas Dunne Books - St. Martin's Press - New York - 2011] ----------------- ...A professor of modern French at the University of Leeds, David Coward, had reviewed the book favorably for The New York Times, but suggested with his opening line, "In the 1940s, France went to war with herself yet again, and the tale, told with relish by Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper in this fascinating book, is calculated to stir mixed feelings in the devoutest Francophile."  

The author said, "Yes, interestingly the French didn't like it.  Well, let me put it this way:  Some French liked it.  It was very much French left-wingers who didn't like it.  That was certainly true.  

     What they didn't like particularly I supposed was the mixture of the serious and the frivolous which was the reality in Paris at the time.  Paris was living on the edge, because nobody knew whether there was going to be a Communist coup d'état or a right-wing coup d'état at almost any moment.  That was reflected in the diaries of people at the time....

     "But what many French disliked so intensely about the book was the way it showed how they basically had no control over their own fate at that particular stage.  They were part of the world game between the Soviet Union and the United States, and it was a question of which side you chose.  And also the fact that we could not resist taking a little bit of fun at the vanities of the Aragons and the other intellectuals, which was something the French do not appreciate.

     "The other thing they didn't like, of course, was that we mixed social, political, and intellectual history.  Their academics believe strongly that all of these are separate disciplines and must be kept completely apart....  But in fact, the whole point particularly during that tortuous postwar period is the importance of all the interreactions between all these different areas.  And I think that's also what Jackie liked so much."

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