[PDF] The Paris Embassy eBook

Author : Agnes Blackwell Herrick
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2007-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761839798

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The diary of Agnes Herrick presents a firsthand view of social and cultural life in early twentieth-century Paris. At that time, forty-year-old Agnes Blackwell Herrick is the hostess at the American Embassy for her father-in-law, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, the much celebrated "Friend of France." She had privileged access to events and some of the principal people involved in them. What she saw was perhaps a last echo of the Belle Époque and the first tremor of renewed national rivalries that contained the seeds of further struggle and war that lay ahead. It was a time of strenuous post-World War I negotiations between the Allies and Germany shared with a frenetic burst of artistic experimentation and the birth of Modernism. Agnes' social calendar records the relentless tempo of social and cultural life in the highest diplomatic circles as illustrated by selected entries from her diary. The book summarizes the diary and identifies the extraordinary assembly of political, cultural, intellectual, financial, and high society personalities who accepted the Ambassador's invitations to dinner. The detail and immediacy of Agnes' record add a fresh primary source for historians and a firsthand glimpse of a compelling and still relevant world.

Author : R. Pastor-Castro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1137318295

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This collection of essays looks at Anglo-French relations from the Second World War to the advent of Margaret Thatcher's government in a new light, focusing on the work of Britain's ambassadors to France. In particular, it looks at moves towards deeper European integration, a key theme in twentieth century British foreign policy.

Author : John Herman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :

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Based on original research in British and French archives, this work details the Paris years and explores Phipps's recognition of French economic, political, and military weakness that propelled him into interfering in their internal affairs. It also discusses the ambassador's zeal for Chamberlain's policies, his machinations of the Spanish Civil War, his role as an anti- appeaser in Berlin, and his role as a defeatist appeaser in Paris. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Marie-Louise Dilkes
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1636243797

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A detailed and vivid diary recounting the wartime experience in Paris during the occupation of France. “September 1939 slipped into October quite silently as if it did not want to attract any notice. The atmosphere is tense with expectancy, ready for the critical times that lie ahead. Everyone is geared for eventualities with courage and the élan of high purpose. Members of the Embassy staff have received their orders to leave for different posts: Bordeaux for some, Nantes for others and for others the Château de Candé. Some of us volunteered to remain in Paris. I was one of them. Paris will be safe or as dangerous as any other place, perhaps safer as every effort will be made to protect the city with its priceless works of art and its beauty.” Marie-Louise Dilkes’ astute observations of life in Paris during World War II are written from the unique perspective of the receptionist for the American Embassy. The Embassy was the first—or last—resort for many caught up in the chaos of war, and hers was the first face they would see as they walked through the grand doors. She takes us from the conquest and occupation of Paris by German forces but includes the war-time journey of the American consulate in Paris from Paris to Lisbon to Lyon to Bern and back to Paris. She ends with the triumphant return of members of the American Embassy staff, after the Allies forced the German Army out of Paris, and the reestablishment of the American Embassy in Paris.