“... as a whole had triumphed against the Nazis and its puppet government in Vichy. The reality, as Olivier Wieviorka shows in this magisterial book, ably translated by Jane Marie Todd, was rather different. De Gaulle had not in fact called on the entire French population to rise up in 1940, but had tried to persuade officers ...”

“... and 1909 she had painted herself as part of the gang, which included Gertrude Stein and Fernande Olivier, Picasso’s model and muse. In the first of these portraits, which Stein bought for her collection, Laurencin stands head and shoulders above Picasso, holding a pink rose. In the second, her flouncy blue dress distracts from the rest of the group, in ...”

“... line of Cahiers critics turned cinéastes that includes Luc Moullet, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Olivier Assayas and, most recently, Mia Hansen-Løve, whose Father of My Children – a perceptive, melancholic drama set in the French film world – was released earlier this year. Truffaut’s article established Cahiers as a polemical journal, and cinema as a ...”