Paris a New York: by Emmanuelle Loyer - 2007-08 Intellectuels et artistes français en éxil 1940-1947

Near fine copy of intellectual history of exiled French writers and artists who left occupied France to live in New York between 1940 and 1947. Among them were.André Breton, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Boris Souvarine, Jacques Maritain, Paul Vignaux, Jules Romains, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Saint-John Perse, Max Ernst, Pierre Lazareff..Author Emmanuelle Loyer analyzes the diversity of positions taken vis-à-vis De Gaulle or the Internal Resistance and evokes the creation of publishing houses or institutions such as the Free School of Advanced Studies. Like their German colleagues, French scholars and intellectuals mobilized against fascism to make an original contribution to the Allied war effort. Unlike the German exiles, the French exiles all returned to France at the end of the war, but with a fresh outlook.