Riparian
Douglas Johnson, 15 July 1982
The Left Bank: Writers in Paris, from Popular Front to Cold War
by Herbert Lottman.
Heinemann, 319 pp., £12.50, May 1982,0 434 42943 0 Show More
by Herbert Lottman.
Heinemann, 319 pp., £12.50, May 1982,
“... What, for example, is the significance of politicians living on the Left Bank? President Mitterrand lives in the Rue de Bièvre, just off the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Quais; the former Prime Minister, the Gaullist Michel Debré, lives in the Rue Jacob, just off the Rue Bonaparte and St Germain des Près. Both live in the essential Left ... ”