A dangerous woman American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
"A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940s Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Believing that only money brought respe...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The aspiring chanteuse
- San Francisco
- From fire to flood and death
- La Parisienne
- War and the boy next door
- Young Mrs. Heynemann
- Home again, war, and folies
- The man they call "Franck"
- Part II. The crazy years
- Taming all these monsters
- Leaving the perfumed air of Bohemia
- Careless people
- An amusing intermezzo for millionaires
- Taking stock
- The Monégasque feud fit for a prince
- Hollywood calling
- The phoenix rises
- Scandal, America, and separate lives
- Dark horizons
- Part III. Darkness falls
- Fifth columnists and fellow travelers
- Fall of France
- Ludwig
- The "anything goes" occupation
- In the garden of earthly delights
- The occupation, 1942-1943
- Florence the banker
- Liberation and treason
- Part IV. Still a Gould
- So safe havens
- Paper clips and friends cast long shadows
- A fortune to give away
- Queen of the Riviera
- Epilogue.
