PARIS WAS YESTERDAY (1925-1939)

In Yesterday Was Paris (Editora José Olympio), Janet Flanner describes the City of Lights during its most brilliant years. The book is composed primarily of material selected from the "Letters from Paris," which Flanner published biweekly (under the pseudonym, or nom de correspondance, de Genêt) in the New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1939. Together, these letters provide a unique insight into French political, social, and cultural life in the 1920s and 1930s—between Josephine Baker's debut and the evacuation of the French capital at the outbreak of World War II.