Volume 26, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1980
A Good Writer
By Virgil Thomson
Also by Janet Flanner:
Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975
edited by Irving Drutman, introduction by William Shawn
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 368 pp., $12.95
The Cubical City
by Janet Flanner
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926; reprinted 1974, University of Illinois Press, $8.95
An American in Paris
by Janet Flanner
Simon & Schuster
Pétain: The Old Man of France
by Janet Flanner
Simon & Schuster
Men and Monuments
by Janet Flanner
Harper & Bros
Paris Journal: Vol. I, 1944-1965
by Janet Flanner, edited by William Shawn
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $5.95, paperback edition (paper)
Paris Journal: Vol. II, 1965-1971
by Janet Flanner, edited by William Shawn
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $4.95, paperback edition (paper)
Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman
Penguin, $2.95
London Was Yesterday, 1934-1939
by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman
Viking Press
Citizen Genêt came to the United States in 1793 as minister from France's First Republic. Though on account of political indiscretions a recall was asked for by President Washington in that same year, he actually stayed on as a resident and married here. During his short diplomatic tenure he had sent home letters loaded with information. In 1925 the late Janet Flanner, already resident in France's Third Republic, adopted the revolutionary Citizen's name for signing a fortnightly letter from Paris to The New Yorker. Why she took on a pseudonym for reporting is not clear, save possibly to distinguish a journalistic function from a literary, since she was already author of a novel, to be published the next year.
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