Paris France

Published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, Stein's delicious and witty account on her life in France is at once an unforgettable historical vignette of the City of Light and a highly entertaining cultural portrait of the French nation through the eyes of an American who does not mince her words. 'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.' Gertrude Stein’s Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein’s life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work. Published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, Stein's delicious and witty account on her life in France is at once an unforgettable historical vignette of the City of Light and a highly entertaining cultural portrait of the French nation through the eyes of an American who does not mince her words. 'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.' Gertrude Stein’s Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein’s life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work. You may also be interested in... Reviews View all Sign In To Write A Review “Streams of automatic writing” ...a war brings you in contact with so much and so many and at the same time concentrates your isolation. Undoubtedly that is what a war does and is it unconsciously one of the things that makes wars happe