The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth 1880-1941

A "thorough and perceptive" portrait of the not-so-famous expatriates of the City of Light ( The Wall Street Journal). History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers' representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who had settled in France after World War I with their French wives, they provide a new view of the notion of expatriates. Historian Nancy L.