Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had not yet been driven out of France. Dunkirk had not yet fallen. The Gaullist government had not yet been recognized. But an old Parisian institution (and big Parisian business) returned to liberated France. Liberation fashions were barely a month old, the season of style shows...
Frou-Frou and Satire. The old Parisian skill was evident. In some of the old Parisian froufrou, the subtle political and social comment also was evident. Schiaparelli offered a model with a bustle in front. Lelong put jeeps on charm bracelets. Agile, aging (70) Madame Jeanne Lanvin (who served iced drinks to shivering patronesses} showed a slinky, black, backless, low-front evening dress called "Liberty." She also offered a simple frock of palest pink named "Free France...
Pablo Picasso announced that he had joined the French Communist Party, two days later learned that 15 of his sensationally experimental paintings (on exhibition at the annual Salon d'Automne) had been torn down by a Parisian mob, which fled in true Parisian style before the police could identify anybody...
French science is very much alive. Under the Nazis, most laboratories and their staffs were left intact, even managed to aid the resistance movement. The early Nazi policy was conciliatory, gradually gave way to suspicion and repression. At the end the Parisian laboratories organized a milice patriotiqne of their own. Now most scientists await only the resumption of gas and electric services-and contact with foreign savants...
Spectacular Serge. By far the most spectacular collaborationist in Parisian musical circles was the famed Russian ballet dancer, Serge Lifar, whom some critics regard as the inheritor of the pink tights of the great Vaslav Nijinsky. Lifar had not only spent the days of German occupation as the toast of the Wehrmacht's more sybaritic officer set; he crowed publicly over each new feat of German arms. Up to last week, the F.F.I, had been unable to find Serge Lifar. He was in hiding, periodically telephoning his friends...