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Nothing could seem less promising, or more likely to induce yawns, except, perhaps, within sneering distance of the Café Flore. But Miss Sarraute is a genuine minor genius, whose motto might be "They that live by the word shall perish by the word." By the time she is through, the Louis XVI chairs are all beslobbered with blood...
...sarine Henriette Flore Davin-Mirvault...
Simone grew up in Paris, was 19 when she pitched in to help support her family when her father took off for England to work for De Gaulle (he later became chief of U.N. interpreters). After the liberation, she hung out in Saint-Germaindes-Pres, at the Cafe de Flore and La Rose Rouge. She took up with a group of young actors, and soon she was acting herself. In 1947 Simone married Yves Allegret, the director who helped her through her first films...
When Sartre came back from a German prison camp in 1941, they settled down in an unheated Left Bank Paris hotel, made the heated Café de Flore and the Deux Magots their workrooms, talked and wrote and wrote and talked until French existentialism was born. With limited assists from Philosophers Kierkegaard and Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir decided that life had no purpose, no meaning except what each man could find for himself in his own existence. To the young, hungry intellectuals of a shamed and broken country, existentialism seemed a revelation. Overnight Sartre became its high priest, Simone...
...Office. Burgess took to journalism, joined the BBC, transferred to a propaganda section of the War Office with the outbreak of World War II. Maclean was already carving out a brilliant career in the Paris embassy and spending his spare moments at Left Bank spots. At the Café Flore he met a pretty American girl named Melinda Marling, who amused him by smoking cigars. They were married just before the fall of France, and went on together to London, and four years later to Washington...