V. 4. FROM NYMPHS TO NAZIS — HOW THE OPÉRA GIRLS SAVED THE CITY OF LOVE

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THE GIFT THE "LITTLE DANCERS" LEFT PARIS

 

The book and movie "Is Paris burning?" inspired this end. 

Book, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, 1965.
Movie, directed by René Clément, music by Maurice Jarre, 1966,
 French-American cast: Orson Welles, Kirk Douglass, Tony Perkins...
Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret...

Pamela Spurdon

In brief

• Place Vendôme and the Occupation 

• How Paris didn't burn 

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